Alaska Wolverine and Wolf Trapping 2023 (Episode 13) Last Wolverine!
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Wolverine,Wolf and Lynx trapping in the Yukon Flats, Alaska. North of the Gwich’in village of Venetie, under the Brooks Range Mountains over 60 miles north north of the Arctic Circle. South of ANWR, ALASKA National Wildlife Refuge. Filmed on a GoPro Hero Black 9 and iPhone 11. While driving a 2020 SKANDIC 600ACE Wide Track. Bridger #5 double long spring and coil spring wolf traps. FPS and Duke 330 Conibear wolverine traps. 1/8 and 3/32 aircraft cable wolf snares. 7by7 and 1by19 cable. With #9 tie wire for support wire. Carrying a DPMS Ar-15 in .556 NATO. Winchester 22 longrifle, marlin 22mag, Sig Sauer 1911-22 pistol. Sled is UHMW plastic from Northern Sled Works.
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33 pounds
33.9 Price Is Right rules, your the closest so far. Fleshing this guy took a while. It’s amazing how older males are covered in scars and fat. I’ve never caught a old skinny wolverine. Have a good one👋
42 lbs
Had a sow grizzly and cub robbing bait. A young woof stood under a tree looking at a marten bucket set. No bobcat around. Can't trap woof till the first of January
I watched the entire series. It was great. I hated to see it end.
Hi, I like your style. Harvesting furs, conservation mined, leave no trash. Feeding the wildlife. Keep up the great work. I'm 73 and have hunted and trapped all my life.
Thanks for watching Jake👍. Yeah gotta take care of the land. It’s awesome out there in gods creation. I bet you’ve got a few stories from out on the Trapline. Have a good one and happy holidays
Wow I was getting worried you were going home empty handed!! Good job!!
Your such a polite young man, you appreciate when you catch something. An give God the credit. Many blessings to you an your family.
Love this show!!!! Uplifting attitude every episode an ALWAYS THANKING THE LORD ✝️
Thanks, I’m glad you enjoyed. Gotta give thanks, we are really blessed🙏
Thanks for taking us along, I love these snow mobile rides! I thought 40 pounds but I see I was off a little.
Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed the ride, sometimes I worry that I put to much riding in these videos. Have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Never too much riding scenes!
Thanks for sharing your trips out. Alaska is a special place, love living here. I really enjoy your videos!
Oh man this video is making me miss the snow! Lol! And thats a stud of a wolverine! I looked at comments ahead of time so i cheated on the weight guess 😅 Yall take care up there and God bless you and your family!
Yeah! Life on the snow it great. I don’t miss it yet but by fall time I’ll be ready for it. Lol yeah he was a thick guy. Thanks brother! God bless y’all as well👍
Thanks for the adventure, looking forward to more.
Glad you enjoyed.👍 trapping starts again soon
Great video, Gary
Hi hope all is well! Thanks crazy busy up here. We’re a third of the way through the summer
Fantastic. I thought I’d seen the end of the trapping videos. Congratulations on a fine catch. I have that same holder for my jet boil. I love it. I’d venture a guess but I already saw the answer on another comment. Nice big wolverine. 👍👍
Thanks! Yeah the summer construction season has soaked up most of my time. Yeah I found that jet boil holder at a gun show here in Alaska a few years ago works great. Thanks for commenting, have a great day👍
Hey just watched your videos, it is a pleasure to watch you go about your work with joy and freedom yet there is a air of NONE arrogant confidence that I injoy seeing and hearing, you remind me of a young man that I have known and injoyed to watch and be with, this young man is with our Father now climbing trees catching fish and yeah hooing sitting on top of a topped tree!😂❤ I love who you are brother! 😎
Thank you sir. It makes the work to put these videos together worth the effort. Im glad you’ve enjoyed my life and I’m so sorry for your loss. I hope you continue to enjoy our channel. We’re editing a few videos right now. God bless and keep in touch👍🙏
Just subscribed. That is a nice big wolverine.🙌🏻
Thanks for the sub. Yeah it’s definitely a nice one. Hope you enjoy the old videos and the ones to come👍
Nice video..thanks for sharing. 37.5 lbs
Thanks! He weighed in at 33.9lbs. The heaviest wolverine this season by almost 4 lbs. have a good one
Wow nice catch!
Thanks! It’s great when hard work pays off. It was a great trapping season this last winter👍
I love your videos. Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you Michael, I’m glad you enjoyed. Any questions just let me know. God bless
Finally got time to watch the full video. That wolverine was an absolute beauty! Great to see another trapping video. Harder to get them out in the off season and nice weather. I’ve got some more beaver videos to edit still 😃.
Yeah a big one for sure. Yeah I still have the last trapping video of pulling the line. It is really hard to find the time to edit. I have a lot of footage to put together. Thanks for watching and writing👍. I’m uploading a around the house video right now.
Great video. Glad to see it and your wolverine! I have eaten many MRE's in my Army Career. But never had a cold weather MRE. I retired in 05 so that menu looked pretty good to me!
Hi Kent. Thanks for watching👍 yeah I’ve only seen cold weather MREs around the last decade and only at garage sales. They have mountain house meals inside. Feels like a lot of food compared to a regular MRE. Take care and thank you for your service.
Nice looking wolverine! You put together great videos.
Thanks! The videos take some time to put together but it’s definitely worth it. Have a good one
5 more months to go can’t wait to hit the line lol Nice work 👊
Oh yeah next season will pop up before we know it. We’ll be setting fish nets in a few weeks so a different form of trapping. Thank you sir🫡
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I love you beautiful😀
That’s some beautiful country you’re in 👍😊👍👍😊👍
Thanks! We sure love it up here.👍
Nice catch buddy. Later and all the best.
Thanks. A lot of work but fun as well.
43 lbs. Good things happen to good people, what a Brute!
33.9lbs. The heaviest one this season. Thank you sir! Have a good one👍
Every time I hear you say anything about hunting wolverines in Alaska all I can think about is Napoleon Dynamite saying *"A frickin' 12 gauge, what do ya think?!"* Nice one! -Dusty
Lol. I remember when that movie first popped up. Haha 12 gauge
Nice and peaceful
Amen, it is so peaceful out there, thanks for watching👋
He's a big boy on a beautiful day
Oh yeah totally worth the effort👍
I still have my type 2 certification. Never was really a firefighter though, i just used to fall trees for them on a contract basis
Cool. Running a saw on a fire is by far the most enjoyable job out there.
Nice. I am scouring your vids to see how to set a snare for a wolf. I have a small pack running around down here by us north of Talkeetna. I would love to get one or two. I do have a wolverine that comes by a few times in winter as well.
In episode 1 of my 2023 trapping season videos. 1 minute and 55 seconds in you can see how I set a wolf snare, but I would hang the snare higher so the bottom of the snare is at the bottom of your kneecap. Use any kind of tie wire to secure the wolf snare to the tree. The trick with snaring wolves is just putting out allot of snares. It really helps your chances.
Hope this helps. Good luck and god bless
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 Thank you for the advice. This is one of the things I love about Alaska. So many folks willing to hep others with good advice. Ty again.
Wolverine are awesome
Oh man they are! They have an entire different attitude then most wild animals. Kinda like a bear but not. Thanks for watching
Np they are very bad ass critters they call them stink bears
@@shaneseaford4824 haha yeah they smell a bit like a beer and a bit like a wolf and a bit of weasel mixed in
Haha
Hint: Weight is over 30
Great video. 28 1/2 pounds
Thanks. Has been hard to find the time to edit but the video turned out. 33.9 lbs the largest I caught this season. The next largest was 30 lbs
Great video! 38 pounds.
Thanks. This one weighed in at 33.9 lbs. the heaviest wolverine this season. Already getting excited for the next season 5-6 months away
25 pounds congrat on the catch’s be safe travel well
33.9 lbs. thanks! I definitely will👍, it was a great trapping season. Thanks for watching
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Awesome.
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Good stuff ! I really want to see the bear stick in use !!! 🤣 34 lbs would be my guess on the big brown weasel !
Haha man now that would be an epic video! This was the heaviest one at a hair under 34lbs. 33.9 didn’t have the largest pelt but was covered in fat and old muscle. I usually get a heavy male near the end of trapping season every year. Thanks for watching ottercat👍
Awesome video brother. I caught a rabbit this last season in a blind set. When I approached the set, it looked like a grenade had went off there. After looking closely, it appeared that three coyotes had breakfast on me!!!😂 be safe....love you country..God bless
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Thanks for watching👍 have a great day👋
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I say about 34 pounds for that nice wolverine. God bless you and your family this summer. Arctic Circle Dave
Super close. 33.9lbs thanks Dave, God Bless you and yours as well🙏
I'll guess about 40 pounds. Do you case skin them? Looks like you got some fresh snow. Beautiful.
33.9 lbs. yeah we skin and dry them then either sell them or give the pelts away. Oh man the winter is beautiful for sure. Thanks for watching
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 you should call your videos out for a picnic. U should get you some 330 coninbear clips. Hang traps up in limbo trees put a bucket with bait over the traps. No birds fast fur hangs off the ground. You waist alot of time building cubbies. Better start useing a safety gripper. B4 you end your career with busted arm wrists.
Hi my enigmatic friend. What is your first name? I have trapped out of Bettles for 50 years but am now in North Pole. I hope to get out on my line again this winter when I will be 73 years old. I am watching this vid the last week of June. so the wolverine is already o the board
Hi my name is Gary Simple Jr. in Venetie. Wow 50 years is a good amount of time. Cool I have a good friend that lives out in North Pole. Yeah this was filmed back in March. I help oversee a lot of stuff here in the village so I don’t have a lot of time to edit these videos. Thanks for writing👍 have a blessed day
Nice wolverine, guessing 38 lbs.
This guy is so good at trapping that he traps himself😅
Lol. I’ve heard a lot of stories of people getting caught in traps. Lol I haven’t done that yet.
Thanks for watching
What software or website do you use to get the music for your videos? Love it!
@@toddmyhre7164 i use imovie for the editing on an ipad and an app called “epidemic sound” for the music. Imovie is free but epidemic sound is a subscription app. Thanks for watching, and writing 👍
Honey badger
Where did you find the orange 330 setters? Those are slick!
On eBay. I think they were from southern snare supplies
Thank you! Keep up the videos! Love watching from here in Pennsylvania !
Do you keep your GoPro in your jacket and then just pull it our once in a while so it doesn't get cold and shut off?
@@SlinginSteel-c9l yep, exactly what i do. I can get about 8 minutes of record time at -30 before i have to put it back to rewarm it.
Thanks for watching 👍
Great video!!! 31.5 lbs is my guess
33.9, thanks for watching👍 have a great day
Hi! I live in Puerto Rico (very far). But I travel to Alaska past month and see only the mousse. But I can contract your services to see and maybe trapp one wolverine.
Hi Miguel. Yeah that’s a ways away from here. Make sure to keep an eye on my channel if I ever decide to bring people up to trap with me. I am probably a couple years away from doing anything like that. Thanks and have a great day👍
30 lb wolverine
56 pounds of wolverine!!
33.9lbs. Thanks Brent! Oh man that would be a record. Thanks for watching and have a great day
32 #
Do you boil snares like you would traps?
Yeah the wolf snares for sure. I’ll do lynx snares as well if I have them ready when the pot is steaming. Thanks for watching
35 #sll
15.8 kilograms for that Gulo gulo best of the season, now that the days are getting shorter at last
Really close. Weighed in at 33.9 lbs. definitely the heaviest one of the season by 3 lbs. have a good one
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 When you have a contest like this wait till the next clip comes out and there will be way more guesses. At last the days are getting shorter now. Best of the summer
@@johnchristie1423 yeah I thought about that but I have to put off the next trapping video to edit spring hunting videos. Hard to keep up with all the footage I have. But thanks next season I’ll be sure to run it like that
Was he 28 lbs
Beautiful throat patch 31 pounds
33.9 lbs. Great Guess.👍not the heaviest wolverine I’ve ever got but he was a large one. Thanks and have a good one
You say that long gun you carry is bear killing capable; what caliber is it? 338?
AR-15 .223 loaded with Barnes vortex’s monolithic copper rounds. Shot a lot of caribou, black bear, and wolf with this rifle. I have had a .338 but walking into the brush after a wounded animal I’ll grab my AR almost every time. Thanks for watching
@@enigmaticgwichin1630what are you running for an optic on there?
@@Northwoods208 it’s a Leopold 1-4 power I purchased in 2002. It’s lived on a few different rifles and survived everything Ive been through.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 okay, I think I might have asked about it once before, that's ringing a bell now
@@Northwoods208 it’s a great optic that has been bulletproof for the last 20 years. From 65 below zero to 110+ above. Underwater to under the snow. Moose caribou and bear haven’t stood a chance.
Being kind of new here . Where do you live in Alaska?
I’m in Venetie. About 150 miles north of Fairbanks Alaska.
@enigmaticgwichin1630 ahhh, you live in a real Metropolis there young man! 😊 My kind of a town. I really enjoy following along with you on your adventures trapping in Alaska. I live in Michigan. It's considered a northern state, but way south in comparison to Alaska.
Do you catch black fish traping
No we don’t have them here in our river. Mostly grayling and salmon on our river
33 lbs in the 330.
👍. 33.9lbs. Thanks for watching. This was a great trapping season. Always more to come, have a great day
I say 5lbs from Arizona
How do you set bait for snares?
I’ll bury bait in multiple locations in one area and set snares in packed down trails weaving back and forth
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 ok thanks
@@bradytentinger9706 I’ll make sure to film a gang snare set a few times this coming season
31 lbs
30 lbs
Federal judge stopped woof trapping in Montana until first January
Ah man that’s some crap. Did you hear about the ban on trapping wolverine in the lower 48? Using the endangered species act. Bunch of bs
They have had a ban on the wolverine for years for trapping. Now they have been put on the endangered species list. All for antis to get all trapping stopped
Had a yote spring a marten box trap. Today has a big ass woof took a marten out of a marten box. Can't trap the vermin until the first of January. Had to pull all my boxes. Not sure if you can even trap woof in the area. Bastards have to many rules.
@@user-vo8fb1yh8q damn that sucks. The crazies won’t be ok until all trapping is ended then they’ll go after hunting, sport shooting, then just legal gun ownership. Bait empty marten boxes and when the season opens you’ll have wolves primed to come to the bait then it’ll be easy pickings. Thanks for writing my friend. The lure you sent me will be used starting next week.
@@enigmaticgwichin1630the lure I sent you is working brought a yote in 50 Yards off the road he was using in warm weather. Are snow has melted. The woof came to my marten box a 100 yards. Left the road. In cold weather after they haven't eaten will get them to step on broken glass to get to the lure
Do you clean up the skulls ?
Most years I’ve sold the head chopped from the carcass and the guy that buys them from me cleans them up and resells them. More recently I started cleaning them up a bit then giving them away. Thanks for watching
I’d be interested in purchasing the biggest ones you get from every season do you have other way to contact you about this ?
@@user-os1qn2xr2w a loose dog got away with a couple skulls from the season before last. But I have to send a couple off and if I have any left we can work something out. What state are you located in?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 I’m actually in Australia happy to pay shipping ☺️
The weight is 28 lbs
33.9. My heaviest of the season. Not the longest but the heaviest. Thanks for watching
35pounds bro
33.9 but with a full belly he would have been 35 lbs easy. Thanks for watching
21.5 lbs.
33.9 lbs. he was a thick, fat wolverine. An awesome animal to find enough food out there to hold that much fat. But most older males I’ve caught have weighed in at a good amount. Have a great day and thanks for watching👍
45 lbs he was pretty
This older male weighed in at 33.9 lbs. I went years without weighing my catches. I’m pretty sure I had a few pushing 40lbs. But I’ll be sure to weigh every catch from here on out. God bless
44 lbs
33.9 lbs. I caught a couple wolverine about 5 years ago that had to be in the low 40s. Before I started weighing my catches
32 pounds
Where are you exactly
Venetie, on the northern edge of the Yukon flats. Right under the brooks range mountains.👍
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Don't walk into a 330 set. Yowch!
How many wolves this year so far
Took out 5 last winter. Haven’t started this season yet. Usually start around Christmas but we’re planning to start a bit earlier this season
37 lbs
33.9lbs. With the trap your guess would be about spot on. God bless and thanks for watching👍
Are you still out having picnic lolly gagging instead of trapping
Haha running an entire village on top of it
You tyrant. I'm setting up a new trapping rygg. A Nissan Titan truck with tracks. Shop should have it done today. Tracks cost 12750 bucks
@@KenCaudle-jy3jt oh man you’ll be able to go anywhere! From everything I’ve seen that setup works great.
1 moose, 3 caribou, 2 grizzlies, lots of dog salmon. It was a good fall season
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 lots of changes. Had to buy a longer trailer. So can haul Nissan and my skiddoo. I tow sled behind like a wrecker track up in air so don't drag or have to take the drive belt off. Made a 2 inch tubeing goes in receiver hitch. Little winch lifts and lowers the skiddoo in case break down 35. Miles from camp. Never even know it's back there
@@KenCaudle-jy3jt dang you need somebody to film your trapping. Just to show others how to actually trap no bs and no drama.
35lbs
Close👍. 33.9lbs. Largest wolverine this season. Thanks for watching
..I'd say 38 lbs..
33.9 lbs. the heaviest by weight but not the largest when boarded. Thanks for watching👍
25lbs
33.9 lbs of muscle 👍
35lbs.
33.9lbs. Pretty close. This was the largest one I caught this year by 3 lbs. Have a great day
35 pounds
33.9lbs. With a full belly this wolverine could have easily weighed in at 35 lbs. have a good one and thanks for watching
38 lbs
33.9 lbs. the heaviest of the season. Caught a couple that boarded larger but this was one healthy animal. Thanks for writing
38 pounds
33.9 lbs. it was a good size not the biggest but no shrimp at all. Thanks for watching and commenting
24 lbs
33.9 the heaviest this season. Thanks for watching 👍
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 you should take the time and make some picknick tables on your line. You do more picnicking than trapping. Just as wells to make some cots so as you can take naps
@@KenCaudle-jy3jt wall tents and cots would be great at -65 below zero. How cold does it get on your trap line?
@@enigmaticgwichin1630 39 be low.last winter but not 4 days on end
@@KenCaudle-jy3jt when I was a kid I remember -73. Smoke from the wood stoves floated right to the ground