Post by Woody Williams on Dec 19, 2005 8:11:44 GMT -5
New Canton (Illinois) man bags wolf
(Pike county Illinois)
In 2002, when Seth Hall was a senior at West Pike High School, he and a couple of his buddies thought they saw four wolves around a deer carcass, not far from a roadway.
"We even turned around and went back to look," Hall said. "We told lots of people what we saw that night and nobody would believe us. My grandpa was the only one who believed us. "Now Hall has proof.
Last Friday, Hall and two buddies, Adam Perrine and Brian Harris, also of New Canton, were hunting coyotes.
Hall saw what he thought was a coyote about 200 yards away and took a shot with his 243 rifle. When he went to check out his kill, he found not a coyote but a wolf.
"I was shocked," he said. "I didn't know what to do. I didn't know if I'd get in trouble or not."
Hall said his first reaction was just to walk away
"But I've never shot an animal and just let it lay, and I told myself I'm not going to start now," he said.
Hall loaded up the animal, which weighs about 75 lbs and is five feet long, and brought it to Pittsfield to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office. Hall's wolf is a young male wolf and appears to be have been a healthy animal at the time it was shot.
IDNR officials stopped short of calling the animal a wolf, but did take hair and tissue for testing.
Hall has done some work on the Internet and after his research is more determined that ever his animal is a wolf. "They have 42 teeth, and this animal has 42 teeth," he said.
Also, according to Jeremy Priest of Longbeard Taxidermy, where Hall took his animal for preservation, a wolf was killed a few years ago in the Peoria area and another in Missouri in 2001.
The wolf is a lot bigger than a coyote, according to Hall. "If you kill a coyote and it weighs 35 lbs, you've got something," he said. "This one weighs 75 lbs."
Since word of Hall's kill has gotten out, he says he has received numerous calls from individuals in the New Canton area, who say they, too, have seen what they believed to be a wolves in the area.
Priest said after he and Hall researched wolves on the Internet, they found that conservation officials in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota had released the animal in recent years.
(Pike county Illinois)
In 2002, when Seth Hall was a senior at West Pike High School, he and a couple of his buddies thought they saw four wolves around a deer carcass, not far from a roadway.
"We even turned around and went back to look," Hall said. "We told lots of people what we saw that night and nobody would believe us. My grandpa was the only one who believed us. "Now Hall has proof.
Last Friday, Hall and two buddies, Adam Perrine and Brian Harris, also of New Canton, were hunting coyotes.
Hall saw what he thought was a coyote about 200 yards away and took a shot with his 243 rifle. When he went to check out his kill, he found not a coyote but a wolf.
"I was shocked," he said. "I didn't know what to do. I didn't know if I'd get in trouble or not."
Hall said his first reaction was just to walk away
"But I've never shot an animal and just let it lay, and I told myself I'm not going to start now," he said.
Hall loaded up the animal, which weighs about 75 lbs and is five feet long, and brought it to Pittsfield to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Office. Hall's wolf is a young male wolf and appears to be have been a healthy animal at the time it was shot.
IDNR officials stopped short of calling the animal a wolf, but did take hair and tissue for testing.
Hall has done some work on the Internet and after his research is more determined that ever his animal is a wolf. "They have 42 teeth, and this animal has 42 teeth," he said.
Also, according to Jeremy Priest of Longbeard Taxidermy, where Hall took his animal for preservation, a wolf was killed a few years ago in the Peoria area and another in Missouri in 2001.
The wolf is a lot bigger than a coyote, according to Hall. "If you kill a coyote and it weighs 35 lbs, you've got something," he said. "This one weighs 75 lbs."
Since word of Hall's kill has gotten out, he says he has received numerous calls from individuals in the New Canton area, who say they, too, have seen what they believed to be a wolves in the area.
Priest said after he and Hall researched wolves on the Internet, they found that conservation officials in Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota had released the animal in recent years.
I agree that at 75# that isn't out of the posablility that it could be a coyote. But then again they did say it was young. Who know's my guess is they might have another story out there to confirm this one. Since it looks to be a few years old. I have taken one that was 54# and had one with it the same size. Would agree though most are in the low #40 and less catagory. At least in my area anyways.
