There is no scientific basis for hunting wolves, quite the contrary.
This is KILLING FOR THE SAKE OF KILLING.
Hunter parks with wolf on the roof at
Square
By Mike Koshmrl, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Date: October 18, 2013
Bill Addeo swears he didn’t park an SUV with a dead wolf strapped to the roof on the Town Square just for the attention.
Addeo sat on a bench next to his Ford Excursion across the street from the Cowboy bar Thursday afternoon, eager to answer questions posed by folks passing by.
“It’s a neck shot,” Addeo said. “The bottom of the neck is blown apart and there’s blood everywhere, so I didn’t want to put him in the back.”
The Hoback Junction resident killed the wolf, a black 85-pound female, that morning while elk hunting near Bondurant.
Addeo said he toted the still-warm canine to Jackson to register it at the Wyoming Game and Fish office on North Cache Street. He parked it on the Town Square, he said, while his wife was shopping.
At the time Addeo shot the wolf, she and four packmates were sitting around “satiated” after having eaten an antelope, he said.
“We saw them from about one mile away,” Addeo said. “Then we crawled to 375 yards.”
His guide, Sammy L. Coutts, had forgotten shooting sticks to rest a rifle on for a shot, so the duo needed to improvise, Addeo said.
“He kneeled down and I put it right on his shoulder,” Addeo said. “It blew the hat right off his head.”
Coutts called the Jackson Hole News&Guide on Thursday afternoon to alert the newspaper to his client’s position on the Square.
The day before, Coutts had a shot at the wolves, Addeo said, but the hunting guide’s rifle didn’t prove steady enough.
“Yesterday, Sam saw the big one at about 250 yards,” Addeo said. “He gets on the hood of his truck and misses twice.”
Coutts stewed all night.
Back on the Square, almost everybody passing by stopped for a look. Most snapped photos.
Despite the interest, nobody gave Addeo flak for putting his wolf on display.
“There hasn’t been one person that’s said anything negative,” he said. “Everybody’s happy.”
Because Addeo was hunting in Wyoming’s wolf predator zone, where there are virtually no rules, a license was not necessary. The free-fire zone encompasses about 85 percent of the state. The southern edge of the zone starts in Wilson, just south of Highway 22, for about half the year.
Addeo could have shot all five wolves if he had the opportunity. The other four packmates, however, scampered off.
“After the shot went off,” Addeo said, “we ran the draw and never saw them again.”
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