Posted on 10/01/2024 11:41:33 PM PDT by CFW
Typical of rural and small-town Wisconsin residents, Chase Melton loves fishing and hunting waterfowl and whitetail deer, and he’s used to seeing wolves in his state’s great outdoors.
“I’ve never have had any trouble with them,” he told Cowboy State Daily.
So he was completely unprepared for what happened last weekend. He and two other duck hunters were surrounded by a pack of wolves in northern Wisconsin, and he had to shoot and kill one in self-defense.
“When it first happened, I thought, ‘Oh my God, what did I just do? I just killed a wolf!’” said Melton, 19, who lives in Sugar Camp, Wisconsin.
Unlike in Wyoming, wolves remain federally protected in Wisconsin and can’t be hunted. Killing a wolf illegally can come with heavy penalties, including possible felony charges.
It’s legal to shoot one in self-defense, but at least until recently, wolf aggression toward humans was so rare, Melton’s case is practically unprecedented.
Still, he’s confident that his case, which was still being investigated Friday, will be deemed self-defense.
His account of events and the evidence should make that clear, he said.
“I’m 19 years old, I’m going to school to be a lineman,” Melton said. “I’ve got my life figured out, I’m not going to throw it away by going up there and shooting a wolf just to do it.”
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There is a reason our ancestors worked hard to kill off the wolf population. Yes, they are majestic looking creatures but they are also deadly and destructive. Reintroducing them into populated areas is going to get someone killed.
Israel metaphor,
Ugh.
SSS unless it was wearing a collar.
It’s 3 hunter’s words against the rest of the pack.
When hunting, I carry a 9mm sidearm with 16+1, 16, as and 13. Plus my .30-30 with 8 rounds in the tube.
There are wolves, coyote, bear, cougar, wild dogs, and crazed humans out there.
For wildlife okay, but that’s not even a start against the crazed human threat. Just look around you. Imagine yourself on a stage with Walz and those rabid bimbos.
Crazed humans is correct.
A high school friend went hunting and wound up being killed by a man who was out hunting humans.
Sad… He was a good guy.
“SSS unless it was wearing a collar.”
In this case, SSS would never work. “He and two other duck hunters ...” Someone’s gonna blab.
When the wolves start killing people the perception of them will change.
There are more wolves in northern Wisconsin than the DNR likes to admit, and they’re not soft and cuddly. I never go into the woods without a sidearm.
It’s 3 hunter’s words against the Federal Government's wishes.
“It’s 3 hunter’s words against the Federal Government’s wishes”
Union government never fails to disappoint. I say re-establish viable wolf packs in Central Park, Beverly Hills, Rock Creek Park etc. Throw in rattlesnakes while they are at it.
“Unlike in Wyoming, wolves remain federally protected..”
Translation” Unlike in America.....etc”
Respectfully, I disagree.
For several years I lived in an area with an abundance of the tree-hugger types and what I saw was not happy nature-lovers but, often, people who value wild animals over humans.
Many of these people have no regard for human life (except their own and the lives of their particular loved ones) and so they rejoice when a human is attacked or injured by a wild animal because they believe the human, after all, has taken the poor beautiful animal’s land.
I have to say, unless you startled one, it’s very very rare that you would even see one. They normally stay away from people. But this guy could have been small. And if he was carrying a duck or two, a wolf in those parts could think he and his wolf buddies could take the small hunter. I would be offended myself. Its also rare that wolves would be hunting in a pack in the summer or even September. There is plenty of food everywhere. Wolves don’t normally pack until food gets more scarce and they need to go after the big stuff. I am in Wisconsin myself and trees are just now starting to change. We still have ducks and geese everywhere.
Of course if you have a hound you are hunting with, the wolves and the hound will find each other, and then its game over if they start scrapping and the hound is either alone or the wolves have at least even numbers.
When I read this quote, it was the money in the court case:
“When it first happened, I thought, ‘Oh my God, what did I just do? I just killed a wolf!’” said Melton, 19, who lives in Sugar Camp, Wisconsin.
If the kid was not aware of what he was doing he is a problem. Saying something like this indicates that he lacks maturity and self control. Pulling a trigger, even when you fear for your life, should be a conscious decision. This 19 year old made it sound like after the wolf was dead he realized he killed it.
The prosecutor is going to tear him up more than a pack of wolves.
30 years ago the DNR introduced a species of rattlesnake into a swamp in IA which was protected. I talked to a guy who lives about a mile from the swamp. His young son stepped off the front porch in his bare feet and was bitten by a snake that had wandered away from the swamp. They had to helicopter antivenom to the hospital. His son almost died. Every now and then he sees a snake and the lawnmower accidently leaves no evidence.
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