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Kamiah hunter shoots wolf; may have been first of the season
By Rocky Barker - [email protected]
Published: 09/01/09
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Idaho Department of Fish and Game warden Matt O'Connell checks the wolf tags of Boise hunters, from left, Dusty Bowen, Cody Huddleston and John Huddleston on the first day of wolf hunting season near Idaho City.
Photo provided by Robert Millage
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Robert Millage of Kamiah shot a wolf shortly after dawn Tuesday in the Lochsa area and may have been the first to claim success in the state's wolf hunt. Millage, a real estate agent, said he was surrounded by a pack of wolves before dawn and waited until light to call them with a hand call that sounded like a wounded coyote.
The wolf came fast to him 25 yards before Millage shot him with his .243 rifle.
"The whole area is lousy with them," Millage said. "But I guess it was the luck of the draw."
Millage said he had not seen many hunters.
"I figured I had complained so much in the last few years we didn't have a season I thought I'd better go," he said.
Millage was on his way to Lewiston to show the animal to Fish and Game and to take it to a taxidermist
By Rocky Barker - [email protected]
Published: 09/01/09
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Rocky Barker/Idaho Statesman
Idaho Department of Fish and Game warden Matt O'Connell checks the wolf tags of Boise hunters, from left, Dusty Bowen, Cody Huddleston and John Huddleston on the first day of wolf hunting season near Idaho City.
Photo provided by Robert Millage
Photo provided by Robert Millage
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Send us your hunting photos
ELSEWHERE
Photo Gallery: 2009 Readers' hunting photos
Robert Millage of Kamiah shot a wolf shortly after dawn Tuesday in the Lochsa area and may have been the first to claim success in the state's wolf hunt. Millage, a real estate agent, said he was surrounded by a pack of wolves before dawn and waited until light to call them with a hand call that sounded like a wounded coyote.
The wolf came fast to him 25 yards before Millage shot him with his .243 rifle.
"The whole area is lousy with them," Millage said. "But I guess it was the luck of the draw."
Millage said he had not seen many hunters.
"I figured I had complained so much in the last few years we didn't have a season I thought I'd better go," he said.
Millage was on his way to Lewiston to show the animal to Fish and Game and to take it to a taxidermist