Cry Wolf

[popplecop]

I'm not one for politcal correctness but here are certain terms I don't like to see. I prefer to call my North American Indian friends Native Americans. I was born and raised with members of the Ho Chunk Nation formily called Winnebagos and am very proud of my friends that are from that racial group.

[skeet]

Sorry PoppleCop but I am not Politically correct. I am, as are you, a native American for that point. Family has been here since the 1670s. I also have indian ancestry from both the Delaware and Mohawk tribes(even if I have blonde hair). Sorry for your polical correctness. LOL even the indians around here call themselves indians. I worked with a couple of Lumpi back east..Don't know if it is a real tribe but that's what they called themselves..My father knew many..Great high steel workers...as he was.

[Mr. 16 gauge]

As for the P.C. thing: I grew up playing cowboys and indians, not cowboys and native americans......and I'm too darn old to change!

As for the wolves: Michigan has proposed some stupid laws to protect wolves; one of which is to ban the shooting of coyotes during firearms deer season in the U.P. because occasionally a wolf would be killed after being mistaken for a coyote. There is no solution put in place for wolves that kill domestic livestock or pets (one family listened in horror as their pet dog was killed and eaten under their house), other than to replace said animal (and I'm sure that the govt. does a lot of foot dragging when it comes to ponying up on that one).....I wonder what the response is going to be from the animal rights individuals when a child or adult is killed. There have been instances where hunters have been stalked and their dogs killed. The ALFs (animal rights fanatics) claim that wolves only kill the sick and the weak, but we who spend time in the outdoors know the truth. Of course, they also claim that coyotes won't attack humans, but we've seen that not only will they attack humans, they will kill them as well.
To make matters worse, the idiots in our DNR have decided that since there are now wolves in the LP of Michigan, that we should close the taking of coyotes during the firearms deer season in the lower penninsula as well.....not during bow or muzzleloader season (apparently, if you hunt with a rifle you can't identify game), but only firearms deer season.....what a crock!

[skeet]

But the real issue is wolves. Hopefully the good ol boys will keep on killing 'em./ Seriously you cannot wipe wolves out by hunting them. They are too smart. Look at yotes..that'll give you a clue. The gummit had a wolf eradication plan going for an awful long time and there were still wolves here.. 3 toes notwithstanding. Trapping and poison did the worst to them If you do not control them from the start they will literally wipe out the deer in your region.. and the wildlife nuts will find a way..every and any way to keep you from killing them. Even the game wardens here kinda turn a blind eye to the found dead wolves..except a few who enjoy the notoriety of catching a "poacher" of wolves

[popplecop]

We eliminated them in Wisconsin by hunting and trapping for bounty. So it can be done. By the way I don't have any problem with Native Americans being called Indians, but now a days gets confussing because of the influx of Asian Indians in to lot of areas. I am very proud to have known Cpl. Mithcell Red Cloud, U.S. Army who was posthumorusly the Medal Of Honor he was an Indian, Native American Ho Chunk. His mother lived in the same small town as I was born and raised in, local VFW and American Legion Posts are name in his honor.

[petey]

I had the pleasure of hunting with Bill Hoppe out of Gardiner last year. What he speaks in this video is nothing but the truth. He now has to run his operation North of Livingston on private land he must lease. My father is hunting Wyoming as we speak and he and my mother just took four days to tour Yellowstone. After talking to them last night, they were nothing but dissapointed with the game sightings...they did however get to see 4 different packs of wolves and witness one pack take down an antelope. They watched them wound then just play games with the creature for quite a while. I'm heading to Idaho in less than a month where I can shoot the bastards for less than $32 a tag. Hope I get to do my duty in helping the "eco-system". I'll display it's dead carcass with pride here on HC.