Posted on 12/18/2012 7:28:17 PM PST by george76
FAIRBANKS — A wolf attacked a Tok trapper on his snowmachine last week about 30 miles off the Taylor Highway, biting through the man’s parka and three layers of clothing to put a 3-inch gash on his arm.
Lance Grangaard, 30, said he was “putting along” on his Ski-Doo Tundra on Thursday afternoon, coming down a frozen creek, when he saw the wolf out of the corner of his eye.
“I turned in time to stick my arm up,” said Grangaard, who was trapping with his father, Danny, in a remote area off the Taylor Highway known as Ketchumstuk. “A single black wolf grabbed my arm and started jerking on me.”
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Said the elder Grangaard, “You could tell he was really distraught. He had tears in his eyes. He thought the wolf was still chasing him.”
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Notable wolf attacks on humans in Alaska:
• March 8, 2010 — A 32-year-old school teacher, Candice Berner, was attacked and killed by wolves while jogging outside Chignik Lake
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I’m glad that is the “gash” he got. Tok is a long ways from nowhere for a major medical issue I think. I did a job up there and have a photo of the highway mile marker: 1368 or something!
Man eating wolves and bears are a good thing. It makes sure only cool people are out in the woods, and it gives them an excuse to pack big guns.
LOL! where’s my kimber .45 with silver bullets when I need it!?
What percentage of Alaskans carry firearms on them when they venture into the woods-wilderness or just to do a little jogging?
Even when I go deep into my back property of 8 acres I carry a fully loaded 10mm Glock, and I live 11 miles north of Wasilla. Black bears are very common in my neighborhood, and wolves. Deep snows draw them down from the hills, moose especially so.
Its an Alaska thing, cannot adequately describe living with so much big animals that can kill you, especially the moose.
Now that is one heck of an idea! I have tons of 4” ABS, glue a cap on one end, fill it with water scent it with musk oh and either make it easy to remove like having that pipe inside a larger one or tie some fishing line to a treble hook in the bottom so you can pull your prize out of the pipe, love it!
While it’s nothing like Alaska, western Wisconsin (where I live) is very hilly and has seen a growth in the numbers of large, potentially dangerous critters (bears, pumas, wolves) that were not around these parts fifty years ago. A co-worker took a picture of a black bear that went through her neighborhood a few years ago. She lives just south of me. We live next to hills and a river bottom, so I kid my wife about getting eaten by bears while shes doing her gardening if she’s not careful.
On average at least once a week I will come out my front door and nearly walk into a moose that is busy slurping road salt off the side of my truck. We just had a heavy snowfall of over a foot last week so the moose will come down from the hills now, they don’t like deep snow. My house and property is right on a migration route.
***** “Now that is one heck of an idea!” *****
Old School, set them in the Summer or Fall put a Rock on top and mark them then when Trapping Season rolls around and you are setting for Muskrat, Beaver and Otter as you go by just knock the rock off and every time you run your line just rub a little more Musk ...
If you set it right you will probably not need the treble hook (we never thought of that, we just reached in and grabbed them) Weasels are small enough to turn around in the pipe so a good leather glove down the hole and they will latch on to you and you can pull them out easy, the Mink just drown, so it’s more like picking than trapping.
All we thought of is not damaging the skin / fur, the treble hook may cost you money (and just something else to carry). We tried to make everything a drown set, it is more humane, marginals are in the bag not escapees, it is harder for Bobcats and Racoons to dig and pull your stakes and the skin / fur is not damaged.
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I grew up in the middle of nowhere in BC and I learned a bit of bushcraft. Nothing would make me detour quicker than a bull moose...
Being hurt in the middle of nowhere can be serious. But if this “gash” counts as an injury, thank god he didn’t break a nail...
“Oh how neat! My mom is English, but that’s not why I do it actually. Somehow we must have the British-English spell checker on our computer. So it comes up wrong if I type it the American way and I don’t like to do things incorrectly, so I correct it. I know that’s retarded because I know the American way is not “incorrect”. Now I’m so used to doing it, I’m starting to just type it up the British way first. :)”
:) No biggie. In canada, we were taught the Queen’s English as well. Until this year, I spelled honor with an “ou” and my friends would say “dude, you spelled it wrong”. ;)
Nah no chance.Bought book on Wolves to see if any connection to portrayal in movie,nothing like it.
Scientists have set up blinds close to wolf dens to study them and all that happens is if a wolf sees a human they will usually just take the cubs inside the den.This idea that the wolves will systematically hunt you down cause you are on their territory is pure bull.
I did enjoy the movie though.
Happy Christmas.:>)
we have hogs here also. a friend of mine came to me with a large set of tusks and two small sets and wanted me to make her a necklace and earrings. I made a nice necklace with the large tusks and two smaller sets of matching earrings with the smaller ones (only about an inch and a quarter long)
Google Moscow Hide and Fur. (moscow idaho) they have hides, antlers, skulls and bones, teeth, claws and much more.
Max answered you at 49. The only parts of the movie I liked were the wolf attacks but you had to endure a bunch of mellow drama conversations in-between.
Thankfully I watched it on netflix and skipped over the boring parts after watching the first 1/4 of it.
Saw “The Grey” last week. and yes, it was depressing. It also had a veiled message that God does not exist.
“My backup is a 10mm Glock so I have 15 and one available. And I absolutely hated that movie “The Grey” made me want to build a tree stand up high, get a thermal scope on my M1A and plenty of some kind of bait.”
Yeah I saw the Grey just last week. Can’t say I cared much for the movie—kind of depressing. The veiled message was, there is no God. Of course, Neeson, like all atheists, did decide to ask for God’s assistance when he was wetting himself with fear. A little late though.
If you decide to go on that wolf hunt, count me in. I fish in Yakutat every year or two.
Bull moose are not as common in attacks as you would think, because first off more cows than bulls and hunters go after the bulls, most of the time its the mama cow defending her calves, I saw a man get trampled once at the UAA parking lot in Anchorage, I think it was either 92 or 93, the moose run freely even in the big city and this guy simply walked between her and her calves so she charged him and stomped him dead. people think the mama cows are harmless, far from it they are the ones the most dangerous.
How about George St. Pierre? How many wolves would it take to bring him down? (Is my presumption correct-GSP)?
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