The Wolf Hunters, In Their Own Words
We have the AP to thank for these quotes in a story about the upcoming wolf hunts in Wisconsin and Minnesota:
"Everybody's gung-ho to go kill a wolf but nobody realizes how hard it's going to be," said Bud Martin, a Montana-based hunting guide who shot a wolf two years ago in Idaho...
Beverly Kiger, a Grand Rapids, Minn.-based trophy hunter who has bagged a wildebeest and an impala in South Africa...wants to add a full-size wolf mount to her collection. She plans to start scouting for wolf signs, perhaps around her cabin in far northeastern Minnesota.
"To get a (wolf) as a trophy would be awesome," she said.
Mark Dahms, 54, of Waukesha, Wis....plans on employing a newly purchased electronic call that can produce 400 sounds mimicking wolves and distressed animals...."The big thing is (getting) the hide."
6 comments:
It takes a lot more humanity to build something than to tear it down.
Their gleefulness demonstrates that the wolf hunt is not about controlling populations or saving livestock or evening out the balance: it's about shooting shit. All the better if you can scalp a pelt or saw off a head to hang on your wall. I guess that proves you're a big man or something--even her.
Congratulations, big-gunned men: you've once again shown your ability to kill an animal when you have the guns, the gear, the dogs, the technology, and all the advantages. BFD.
Is the The Wolf hunt is being carried out as act of genocide against the Anishinabe as punishment for not approving the iron mine in the sacred hills? Was the ceremonial harvest of the Elk an act of defiance by those people to protest the wolf hunt? Why did the DNR not honor the wishes of those whose fate follows that of brother wolf?
Hey Mark- can I tag along and maybe when you're not looking urinate on your hide? Or maybe I'll bring out my smart phone and do a few human voices. Maybe a human voice with a northern Wisconsin accent? That Walkersha accent won't cut it.
I agree with Boxer.
To the prospective wolf hunters, I would ask: Why?
Use of electronic calls should be illegal as it is with other species in WI. If you are a REAL hunter you should be able to mimic the calls yourself.
Yes, wolves can be easily tricked by electronic devices because their hearing and sense of smell are so bad and of course they are just dumb animals.
It's nice to see that there is a market for electronic wolf hunting devices and that someone will be relieving Elmer Fudd of his money.
Normally I am against consumer fraud but in this case I think the unfettered free market should reign.
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