[petey]

Bulls are eaiser prey, especially during the months of November and December...period.

And the oldest and biggest bulls are the easiet of them all....how do I know?

Plain common sense.

The bulls start their pre-rutting in early Septemer. They are running cows for 3 months straight. Fighting other bulls to keep their herem. And when bulls fight, a lot of the time it's to the death. These aren't any little whitetail fights or tickling of horns either...they go at it. Ok, so now we have 3 months of fighting, running non-stop just to keep his cows, breeding which is tiring because of all the chasing done....oh yeah and now we have 3 feet of snow too. Oh did I forget to mention, the only elk that what probably actually turn on a wolf to defend itself would be a bull. Cows/calves would more than likely high-tail it at the mention of a wolf and at that point it's a matter of who runs out of steam first. With a bull...."hey, he's not running, lets gang up on him!"

Simple prey for a small pack of wolves. But you're talking packs of 9 -18. Well that's just plain real easy prey then.

As soon as that bull turns to fight like he's been doing for the past 2 months he's done. He doesn't have the energy to put up a good fight and doesn't have the stamina to out run the pack.

I have this same theory about PA and coyotes. I believe their #1 prey during these same months are the big ol bucks that we're "supposed" to have here now. If you sit down and actually think you don't have to do studies to figure out this stuff. They need to fix this wolf problem asap!