Vern Humphrey
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Go to the feed store and buy four 50-lb bags of feed, or three 80-lb bags of Quickcrete. Tie them together and lift them like that.
I guarantee your muscles will be stretching and your joints popping!
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I guarantee your muscles will be stretching and your joints popping!
If the hunter's leg is behind the wolves tail that means his weight is almost entirely on the visible leg.... just judging by the width of the man's shoulders.
That picture seems unlikely, however I have seen some wolves that are huge. I had a 110lb German Shepherd who looked smaller than a lone male I ran into...
200lbs sounds like that one fish I caught last summer...
That picture seems unlikely, however I have seen some wolves that are huge. I had a 110lb German Shepherd who looked smaller than a lone male I ran into...
200lbs sounds like that one fish I caught last summer...
KodiakBeer
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The biggest wolves are those found in interior Alaska and east into Canada. A big male may go 120 or 130 pounds and the record (as noted in an earlier post) is 175 pounds. Doubtless, some big wolves have been taken that weren't weighed and may have gone over 200 pounds, but those would be once-in-a-century animals.
The further south you go, the smaller they get. The wolves transplanted into Yellowstone came from southern Canada, and any wolves moving across the border come from that same population. Those animals are smaller than those big Yukon valley wolves noted above. I doubt a male would go much over 100 pounds.
The further south you go, the smaller they get. The wolves transplanted into Yellowstone came from southern Canada, and any wolves moving across the border come from that same population. Those animals are smaller than those big Yukon valley wolves noted above. I doubt a male would go much over 100 pounds.
25cschaefer
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The wolves that have been relocated to the Rockies came from the interior of Alaska, they aren't native to the area. They are bigger, faster, stronger than the wolves that previously inhabited the area. Even though they may be on the same latitude as Michigan wolves doesn't mean they aren't bigger. I doubt warmer temputures and an aboundance of food would make a wolf grow slower or smaller, especially in an area that hasn't had wolves for years.
Art Eatman
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As you go north, the average size and body weight of all native critters becomes larger. Deer, elk, coyotes, cougars, wolves, bears, whatever.
KodiakBeer
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No, they brought in Canadian wolves from BC and Alberta, just north of the border. Any of those wolves would be identical to Alaskan wolves or northern Canadian wolves, just that they'd average a bit larger in the northern part of their range. They aren't a separate subspecies or anything like that.
DM~
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A few years ago, a young male wolf was collared and let go in upper Mi. After a time, the DNR lost the signal, and figured the wolf was dead.
Two years later, a farmer in Mo. shot a collared wolf that was attacking his cow, and turned in the collar, it was the Mi. wolf and it had walked over 400 miles.
My point is, they wonder all over and there's now wolves where folks thought they wouldn't be. They are seen in Ky. and other places headed south, and i know for a fact that folks are shooting them and keeping their mouth shut. And all i have to say about that is, Good on them, as our for fathers had that one already figured out!
DM
Two years later, a farmer in Mo. shot a collared wolf that was attacking his cow, and turned in the collar, it was the Mi. wolf and it had walked over 400 miles.
My point is, they wonder all over and there's now wolves where folks thought they wouldn't be. They are seen in Ky. and other places headed south, and i know for a fact that folks are shooting them and keeping their mouth shut. And all i have to say about that is, Good on them, as our for fathers had that one already figured out!
DM
lizziedog1
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I can not confirm this, but I was told that wolves have been spotted in Northern Nevada near the Idaho border.
elkdomBC
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a healthy male timber wolf can and will get to 200 pounds or more,
providing there is lots of game to kill and feed on, domestic cattle included,
they are one of toughest animals on earth to kill consistently, if you cannot utilize trapping/poisoning methods , here(only licensed trappers can trap wolves)
they are incredibly intelligent and have a built in ability to learn and remember,
I have killed many of them, never one that weighed 200, but 175/ 180 yes, and have viewed a fresh killed wolf that was 200 lb plus(7 1/2 feet) from nose to tip of tail,
they are natures most ultimate killing teams,,,
here the resident allowable wolf kill per year is 3 in most areas ( no extra charge for license tags,) 3 is not enough some seasons,,,
providing there is lots of game to kill and feed on, domestic cattle included,
they are one of toughest animals on earth to kill consistently, if you cannot utilize trapping/poisoning methods , here(only licensed trappers can trap wolves)
they are incredibly intelligent and have a built in ability to learn and remember,
I have killed many of them, never one that weighed 200, but 175/ 180 yes, and have viewed a fresh killed wolf that was 200 lb plus(7 1/2 feet) from nose to tip of tail,
they are natures most ultimate killing teams,,,
here the resident allowable wolf kill per year is 3 in most areas ( no extra charge for license tags,) 3 is not enough some seasons,,,
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