Well, Hmmmmmm
Me thinks you guys in maryland had best hunker down in the area and pretty much stay put as I doubt that you'll be very comfortable in a western culture, especially a western hunting culture.
When I was young and living in western PA I hunted coon with anyone that would take me. I soon got my own dog. A much better program than what is called "DARE" to keep kids in line. One becomes attached to the dog, very much.
Black bear and mountain lion hunting is nothing more dangerous than coon hunting. Very few dogs are hurt. You cut the trail, turn the dogs loose and sometimes, only some times the bear/cat is treed or bays up in the rocks. Most people walk up, take a pic and catch the dogs. One of the greatest lion hunters I know took one years ago. Since then he has taken none and has hunted cats every winter for years including last year. He's 86 years old.
Fabs I think you are softening a bit though
These large canadian grey wolves (or any wolf) will not tolerate another canine, coyote, dog or the native (smaller) wolfe that they have made extinct (noticed no one is bitching about that!) Our smaller wolf was here in numbers that were pretty much selfsustaining but are now gone never to return to the earth.
It is entirely possible for me to be hunting water fowl within walking distance of my back door and encounter a wolf. How much chance do you think my newly acquired choc lab will stand against a wolf. One wants to play and one want to kill. Hmmmmm.....
BTW!! Its the feds that set the rules not the state. If it were soley up to the state things would change.
Also, what makes anyone think that there were no wolves around here before reintroduction of a strain of wolf that was non native.... Ever try to get ALL of the coyotes out of an area, No Way!
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