Back earlier a different landowner we sometimes hunt on we’re talking about the declining deer numbers on his place. Talk got around to mountain lions and he said something about seeing some tracks. Before I go any further this rancher was raised out there and this family place traces back I think he told me nearly back to the Indian days. He’s not much of a big talker so I pretty much believes what he tells me.
Anyways he told me awhile back he seen 2 Mexican Gray Wolfs. Said they were tall and bigger than any German Sheppard dog he had ever seen. Didn’t think a whole lot of it but after doing some research there ain’t supposed to be any wolves anywhere near that area. Still believed what he told me he saw though but thinking maybe wolf mixed with coyote or something.
Well forward to December after I left Utah at his spot I went found me an area and sat down next to a mesquite tree. A little after daylight I spotted way out there in this field what I thought at first was a cow. It was a long ways off and I nearly didn’t even put my zoom glasses on it. Thought maybe it could be a deer so I did and when I did I couldn’t hardly believe my eyes. With what that man had said awhile back I immediately thought wolf.
If it wasn’t at least part wolf it’s the biggest looking dang coyote I’ve ever seen. Now I will admit in some of that country the open fields mixed in with that mesquite brush will play tricks on you as far as distance goes. I’m pretty sure that’s what happened here and he wasn’t as far out as he originally looked but it was still huge.
After awhile it started trotting and angling towards me. Took some shots through the glass with my phone but most was too blurry to tell. I got 2 halfway decent shots…one when he was originally standing there and one when he was trotting closer. After he disappeared in a low dip I turned around better but he never appeared again.
His snout looks pointy like a coyote but that could be just the pic. What y’all think?
What I’m saying is I’m thinking there might be stuff in there that nobody knows about with the acreage being so big and wild.
That’s big enough country it sure wouldn’t surprise me. Probably pockets of those ranches that don’t see humans for years at a time.
Yep KB that is some big country and it’s good to know there’s a few places left like that down here. I say down here cause I’ve never been to Alaska.
Well looky here. Supposedly this was shot awhile back just west of here within 10 miles or so as the crow flies. The owner of the ranch the kid shot his hog on sent me this pic. Word is it was shot not far from his place headed back this direction. Remember that area I took Cat and his boys snake hunting last year where that cave went way back in there. Puts it in the vicinity of that place….could this cat possibly ever used it?
KB will say it’s darn possible…rest of y’all will say probably not. Oh yeah….couple days ago a friend of mine told me a lady walking her dogs claimed to see one at the end of the road here. Possible cause there’s a river down there but I don’t know about that one. If it’s the same pretty young lady I see walking her dogs down this street that sighting is highly questionable.
P.S. this pic here was sent to me by him taking a snapshot of it off of another phone so I’m not totally sold on this one either.
