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Big Game Hunting => Wolves => Topic started by: bearpaw on October 18, 2011, 02:31:52 PM

Title: First one on record with a bow…
Post by: bearpaw on October 18, 2011, 02:31:52 PM: Just got this by email, not sure I believe the weight of the wolf, but it appears it was taken with a bow, and the elk is frickin huge.... :yike:

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First one on record with a bow…

Hunters are from Pocatello. Big honkin’ elk. The other guy got the wolf from a tree stand after using a cow call.
ISLAND PARK AREA
Wolf was weighed at 220 lbs.
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Post by: pianoman9701 on October 18, 2011, 02:33:00 PM: Both are enormous. Holy cow!
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Post by: jaymark6655 on October 18, 2011, 02:34:25 PM: Hmmm those bows also appear to shoot 48 inch arrows.
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Post by: boneaddict on October 18, 2011, 02:37:13 PM: NICE trophies. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Seatown5 on October 19, 2011, 08:30:29 PM: Huge elk. Im always amazed when i see the size of those wolves
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Post by: h20hunter on October 19, 2011, 08:37:56 PM: That elk is pretty darn impressive.
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Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on October 19, 2011, 08:47:11 PM: Congrats to the hunters!
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Post by: BPturkeys on October 19, 2011, 08:49:06 PM: Wow, you say that wolf weighed in at 220lbs. Is that about what they all weigh or is that a small one? I assume that elk went about 1500?
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Post by: bearpaw on October 20, 2011, 09:59:26 AM: Quote from: BPturkeys on October 19, 2011, 08:49:06 PM
Wow, you say that wolf weighed in at 220lbs. Is that about what they all weigh or is that a small one? I assume that elk went about 1500?

I don't buy the 220 pounds either, I think it's un usual for one to weigh more than 130 unless it has a belly full of meat. But it still looks like a big wolf and a hell-of-an-elk.... :chuckle:
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Post by: PolarBear on October 20, 2011, 10:02:30 AM: Awesome!!!!
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Post by: GoldTip on October 20, 2011, 10:04:06 AM: Both are danged nice critters. But the wolf is no where near 220lbs, big even for a wolf, but as Bearpaw said, 130 is a very big wolf. I have a book titled "Alaska's wolf Man" who was a Govt. wolf trapper/killer, in the book the biggest Alaska wolf he'd ever seen was 170lbs.
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Post by: DBHAWTHORNE on October 20, 2011, 10:38:45 AM: Thats awesome. Years back a buddy of mine shot one in Alaska with a longbow and he was told by the editor of a magazine (Primitive Archer :dunno:) or one of the other traditional mag's that it was the only one he personally knew of taken with Trad gear.
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Post by: PolarBear on October 20, 2011, 10:44:14 AM: My cousin in Copper Center Alaska has been trying to get me to come up on an archery wolf hunt. Gonna have to make it happen.
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Post by: kglacken on October 20, 2011, 10:46:39 AM: That must of been quite the adrenaline rush!
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Post by: Huntboy on October 20, 2011, 10:49:24 AM: Both are nice.
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Post by: silverdalesauer on October 25, 2011, 08:41:36 AM: Holy Crap!

That wolf is huge - 220 pounds? That's more than my wife & two boys weigh altogether! :yike:
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Post by: Holg3107 on October 25, 2011, 08:50:38 AM: Awesome, great to see a wolf taken with a bow. As for the 220# no way! with the largest wolf recorded at 175# up in AK I would guess thats not more than 130-140# which is still HUGE!