Congratulations and thanks for sharing. Is she or you going to do anything with the skull. Seems like it would be something nice to clean up to keep or sell .
I’ve got 4 in my freezer that I’ll clean up in spring. This one’s going to a taxidermist that’s making me 2 pairs of beaver slippers, she wants to do a full mount on one but isn’t set up for wolf.
Plenty of 67 pound adult female wolves around. Even in Alaska. Local guy got a 126 pound male a week ago. Might be a pic on Ak. Trap assoc. FB page.
70ish is probably my average for weight. It looked small so it surprised me on the scale. I saw that big one the guy caught recently, he was smart enough to take a pic of his scale……due diligence to the naysayers. Big dog for sure!
Congrats Shakey, that’s a very nice looking wolf!!!
Do you have sets in locations where others are driving over them on snowmobile too while just out trail riding?
Nope. We’re mostly on crown land, but nobody comes back here. Some try but they turn around after about 1/4 mile…..lol. We leave it quite ugly in a couple spots in the beginning. When the go around stuff and hammer into stumps under the snow it deters them. Their tracks show the amount of “fun” they had.
The 750s on the other hand are a good dry ground trap in my opinion. First wolf I ever caught was in one, but they are the worst wolf trap I've used for freezing down and you're right, they just don't have the jawspread to come up through much snow.
What Snowmobile are you running? Those trail sets and driving over them were awesome when I used to run a Tundra R, when I went to bigger machines with deeper lug traps I learned you had to set them deeper. My current SWT is good for floating over set traps, but it leaves such a wide, flat trail that I feel I need to use Guiding when making trail sets.
I’m running a 2012 Tundra LT with 1.5” lugged regular width long track. Buddy behind rocking the old 84’ Safari…..cheap bugger…lol. A good machine is so vital on a line. Skid plate is a MUST for me! A arm suspension would’ve been ripped off long ago too, no good… not a good sled for a beginner at all, it aint no leisurely trail riding machine…lol.
Those 750s are definitely effective for summer ADC or different sets. For the snowmobile trail sets I’m going to stick with the taller ones like this one or the Brawns. There’s a few locals that hammer the numbers in winter with 750s though, but they don’t advertise how many misses they get….lol. The 2 on the trail may have been one wolf, the traps were about 4’ apart. The Duke was another 30yds ahead.
