Wolves in East Texas

[explorer1]

Ok. 2 months. Ago i hit this beast on 19 . Tpw or warden was called look at the length, we know how wide a single lane is. It was part red wolf and yote approximately 54 pounds some meat was missingmy poor jeep.[/IMG]

[explorer1]

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[tookeymonster]

Yes, we Texans know about coy dogs. Rob, red wolves are not as big as my GSD...maybe those little skinny head backyard breeder ones...but not true west german bloodlines.

I am starting to think that all the professionals are wrong.....everything they say does not exist anymore is seen all over East Texas.

yep you can add BigFoot to that too when talking about East TX

[TimH]

Probably coy dogs. The ones I see around our place are much bigger than coyotes.

[30-30]

I hate to be the one to call BS, but I'm just not convinced that what all these guys are seeing are, indeed, wolves. They have been extinct in Texas for nearly 100 years, perhaps there are remnants mixed in with dogs, coydogs, and coyotes but I'm very skeptical that there are "wolves in Texas."

[Big Bill]

1984 in Corrigan Tx 18 miles out of town I shot what I thought was a huge Coyote but after the shot two more ran under my stand and they were just the same size as the dead one, and it was a wolf. 86 pounds and no doubt it was a wolf and it had two that got away with it. So there were a few left in 1984 so who knows what may still be out there. And I have been to Alaska and seen the larger version and I have a 120 pound Great Pyrenees here at the house so i know what a big dog looks like. And over the years I do belive I have seen a few others in the area as well.

[Sippy]

I posted a thread about this after opening weekend of bow season. I had never hunted east of 35 before and asked about the coyotes howls being a lot different than the ones in west tx. I am now almost positive what i heard was a wolf. They were not yipping at all.

[Big Bill]

30-30 I Dont think the 80s were a 100 years ago.

[Bone Collector]

I'm heading back up there tonight for the weekend. I am planning on hunting that same stand and am going to try my best to get some pics.

Let the air out one

[joebriles]

a 70# yote?

thats a pretty darn big coyote... although that is a smaller wolf...

grew up in northern michigan. we had wolves, but you would seldom see them. depending on the species of wolf I could believe it. Why not? we got mt lions. Monkeys. bears. burrows. Why not a wolf that was at one time a native species?

??? MONKEYS??? really? i dont know what i would do if i was in a tree and saw a monkey walk by

[explorer1]

they are here we have black and red and grey, for the dis beliver come hunt with me i can prove it in less than a week, and bring your predetor call, big difference when they howl ones way lower than the other yotes yelp, and yodel wolves do not, wild dogs yelp and yodel as well. hunt white oak creek area near bassett ask the locals there or the wardens they will confirm it.

[30-30]

Question, if wolves do exist in Texas is it legal to shoot them?

[hunterbob]

??? MONKEYS??? really? i dont know what i would do if i was in a tree and saw a monkey walk by

I know what I'd do ,,, choot it !

[hunterbob]

Back in 2011 with all the fires going on, about 40 wolves were let out of an encloser, monkeys too... lol,,, I don't think the wolves went back to the encloser, so theres no tellin what you might see in the woods... be careful.... My kind of hunting.... I have seen mountain lions in the past 2 years..... 3 times. couldn't get a kill shot....

[SolocamShooter]

Yes there are wolves in east texas. My dad has seen several over the years and I have seen one myself a couple years back. All in the neches riverbottom outside of Diboll.