Danny: EnCon will tellya there are no wolves in NYS, except for the pair of 75 pounders taken near Glens Falls a couple of years ago or the ones spotted further south in the Adirondack Park, or that whatever fefw you might see have simply travelled down from Canada, and EnCon's famed pathologist, Ward Stone, will testify that all coyotes, dogs and wolves share similar dna. This may be true to some degree but beyond that I think he is one lyin' sob.
Gawd forbid he actually tells the truth about wolves and cougar coming back into nys because some shumer or gillibrand politician will raise the concern about wolves interbreeding with pit bulls to generate a new breed of man-eating pit wolf or something and everybody will start shooting their neighbor's poodles and local police will be executing pit bulls, Rotts and Dobes on the streets.
The truth is that for about the last 150 years or so the smaller eastern coyote has interbred with the Canadian Grey Wolf and has produced a much larger coyote, with some alpha males weighing up to 65 lbs. I have taken them in the 45-55 lba range and my neighbor has taken a big male he weighed at 65 lbs. Not a wolf, but a coyote - not the same skull structure and musculature as the wolf, but a really big coyote. One of my other neighbors is firm on identifying a Canadian Grey Wolf he saw in the neighborhood.
If you intend to shoot them then you have to keep your rifle handy. This is the season when Whitetail drop their fawns and the coyotes and wolves will wait until the mother is birthing, then run in on the mother and kill it and take the living fawn back to the den for the pups to practice killing and eating. I like to bait the coyotes and drop them from a distance. I've been asked by a farming neighbor to sit by his barn while his cows are calving because the coyotes come right to the barn door to see what they can get - this makes them very easy targets, but ya gotta be ready for them. jmtcw.
