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Border killings: How shooters lured historic Colorado wolves to their deaths in Wyoming

Border killings: How shooters lured historic Colorado wolves to their deaths in Wyoming

Hunters took advantage of lax regulations in Wyoming to electronically call in and kill three of six wolves from a pioneering pack less than a half-mile from the state line.

An electronic call drew the canine in. 

The recorded sounds of a pronghorn in distress blared from a point some 600 yards north of the Colorado-Wyoming state line. It was a Saturday in May 2019, and the hunters at first thought they were looking at a coyote. 

Then the animal emerged further from the brush. They saw it had a “swooped down tail” and an “oversized head.” 

The men playing the distress call knew what this was. WOLF..
When the gray lobo came within 243 yards, a rifle erupted. The shot from the 7 mm Shooting Times Westerner killed the lone male, a member of the first wolf pack documented in the state of Colorado since the 1940s.

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