Anyway, whats the deal with those critters. Did the wolverine chase your buddy down?
What happened was my friend went back for a second load of sheep meat. He left his rifle at camp (7 Rem. mag.) so he could carry everything that was left there. When he got back to the sheep, there was a wolverine on the kill, and it wasn't giving it up!!! My buddy tried yelling but the wol.. would lunge at him if he got too close, so he gave up and went back to camp for his rifle...
When he got back to the sheep, the wolver... was gone, but it had eaten a lot of meat that he now didn't have to pack out... :>
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DM, is it a serious threat? I got a good friend in Utica that goes to Kodiak all the time with a longbow. He said he was stalked by a big bruin last year and finally dropped his blacktail and the bear walked past the deer and kept coming slowly behind him. He said he finally turned around and started tearing into the blacktail. Sounds like my bud kept his head pretty well.
Anything is possible, but nothing like that has happened to me, not that i know of anyway.... I've had guys tell me all kinds of stories though, even when i'm hunting with them they were seeing and hearing things. I think most hunters have a bit of an imagination when around bears, and locals and guides like to play that up a bit! After all, they have to jusyify that big $$ hunt somehow...
It's not what i'd call "unusual actions" for a bear to follow someone, (some call it stalking) and now that it got a deer for it's efforts, what do you think it will do next time it encounters a human????????
I've been so close to brn. bears in thickets that i could smell them, and hear them move off (many times) and none of them bothered me. Maybe i smell worse to them, than they did to me???? :>
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Bear problems are so overrated it isn't even funny!!!! Over the years moose have killed more people than bears have!!!!
Drilling Man