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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Self defense is outlawed in much of the world and is on its way to being outlawed here too. F the G.
Bigger hole. Oh probably not the best idea.
That is because WOLVES were rare around areas where there were people.
There is a reason why it is the "Big Bad Wolf" and not the "Grumpy Groundhog".
Wolves, especially wolves in pack, will kill you. For fun.
It was a bunch of wolves that, because of people being stupid, sloppy, sentimentalists think wolves are so cute and cuddly, do not fear humans and so will attack them.
We had a moose in Iowa that a hunter claimed attacked him so he shot it but the DNR research showed there was significant distance between the moose and hunter and the shot was a broadside shot vs. front shot that you would expect in a charge situation.
The fewer wolves everywhere the better for everything else.
They killed Liam Neeson.
Then case closed.
I would not kill a wolf. However, I would gut shoot one so that it can off and die later well away from my location.
Which is always the left's end game.
Everything they do is to our detriment.
They want us fearful and dead and don't care what tools they use to accomplish it.
Women did say they would choose a bear than a man if they found themselves stuck out in the wild.
‘Until something changes, I choose the bear.’
https://www.mamamia.com.au/why-women-choose-the-bear/
If you have been on the internet recently, you will be familiar with the bear vs man debate. Women are being asked whether they would rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear and they are, almost unanimously, choosing the bear.
Birdshot is a bad choice for home defense, and just as bad for wolf poaching.
If you know anything about shotgun ballistics and goose-hunting loads, you know that the wolves had to be just a few yards away for him to inflict a lethal injury.
Even on the odd chance he was shooting tungsten ‘T’ shot (which, due to its expense and limited applicability is unlikely), that only extends his lethal range (on a mammal the size of a wolf) to maybe 20 yards. The Tueller drill posits that a healthy young man can over 21 feet in 1.5 seconds. I reckon wolves are at least three times that fast, and if they were so motivated, could have covered 20 yards in one second flat.
The wolves obviously would have known the humans were there long before the humans sensed them. That they weren’t in full flight but in fact approached to within a few yards of the hunters demonstrates intent. This wasn’t an accidental encounter.
Whether he consciously thought it or not, that young man understood that the blast of the first shot probably would scatter the rest. He also understood that if any one of those wolves got in amongst he and his two companions, the chaos that followed would ring the dinner bell to the other five. Some or all of them likely would be killed.
So he acknowledged the severity of the threat took the only decision that guaranteed he and his two buddies all would go home that night.
They are stupid. Man always. If he is friendly then I have a friend. If he is hostile he is easier to kill.
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