You're right about the prices continuing to go up.


I've seen wolves on two of my Canadian hunts.
The first was on that Mackenzie Mountain hunt. We had just arrived at base camp and a single wolf was spotted coming toward us on the shore of the lake. One of the guides told me to get my gun and follow him. 50-100 yards later the wolf popped out of the brush about 30 yards in front of us, but the guide was right in front of me. By the time the guide got out of my way the wolf was long gone.


I think if I had just sat down where we first saw the wolf, he would have come in range for a shot.


The second was on a caribou/muskox hunt east of Inuvik, NWT. We were on the top of a hill, and spotted a white wolf a half mile or more away, coming toward us. He stopped broadside about 75 yards from us, but all we could do is look as nonresidents couldn't shoot wolves in that area.


Our Eskimo guides could each shoot 5 wolves, but nonresidents couldn't shoot any.