A Pack of Wolves Came After Glenn Villeneuve | Joe Rogan

the Joe Rogan experience the been times when I ran out of food and I've literally tracked wolves and taken food away from them when they've killed caribou why yeah how many wolves were there one time there was a lone wolf that got a caribou just ahead of me he didn't have time to do anything except gut it for me literally that's what they start eating is the guts and he had opened up its belly and pulled the guts out and the whole caribou was there Wow what happened that day I was really hungry I we had run out of food I was out there with my ex-wife and we had and your kids had one baby at the time so you're out there with a baby and you don't have food the baby was fine she was nursing yeah well we always had something to eat just not enough but I never ever had been out there when I didn't have something to eat every single day some days it was just one rabbit some days it was just one time again which is very little food but I've always been able to get something to eat but this particular year it was kind of early on this was the winter 2006-2007 hadn't been out there that long made a miscalculation I was counting on caribou showing up because so far I'd always seen a lot of care but in the winter that one of the income if I had known I could have prevented a situation but we had taken one moose in the fall I'd killed a moose in September and I thought man we got 500 pounds of meat we're sad the caribou will come later in the winter but it's amazing how much meat you can eat when you're not eating much of anything else hmm and all that I was eaten at that time really was meat fat and maybe a cup of berries a day you know that I had gathered in the fall and froze so the moose we went through that pretty fast found out that two adults can eat a large ball moose in three months if that's all you got to eat i i've eaten by myself of a large bull moose in six months yeah for people that know no large bull moose is about 2,000 pounds I don't think they're quite that big with it probably 1,500 pound you probably get 500 pounds Oleg a Yukon mousse is like 2,000 pounds what's people people he's not graduates today so they exaggerate a lot of things yo so but I feel like a 60-inch bull how much does that guy yes I'm like that's actually what that ball was it was about 60 inch wow that one was actually 57 if I remember I don't pay too much attention to the exact measurements but somewhere in the range of 1,500 pounds which is like what how many pounds of meat you think that is I would guess that you probably are getting 5 600 pounds of meat there are you taking the the femurs and getting bone marrow out of them and doing all that job oh yeah oh yeah that's that's really important part of of my diet when I'm living off an animal is I like variety and they analyze a ton of variety in it one caribou will give you so many different options in terms of food if you know how to utilize it I've eaten everything I have a caribou except the poop literally you can even eat part of the antlers when they're home oh yeah and the spring when they're growing they're soft on the ends it's like a pickle you skin them you take the velvet off in the last inch or two it's just it's got the consistency of a pickle they're great really eat it raw yeah I had a lot of animals ride a lot of parts of a caribou trough but anyway you get a lot of variety eat all the organs eat the eyes eat the brain you live with the brain oh yeah really spinal cord whoa like I said I've eaten everything except the poop out of a Cara but literally I mean you can even the cartilage you can get all kinds of variety and it's nutritious is good for you I mean I learned about all this from the old people that used to eat this way I went to I would have been reluctant to eat certain things if I I hadn't been educated by other people that you can do this I was talking to this 9 year old woman in Fairbanks you know and I asked her so you eat the brains cuz I'm thinking you know mad cow disease Briones yeah oh yeah the brains are great and then I did a little research they've never found prion ik disease in Alaska and any of the animals up there so they start eating the brain that's an issue that's happening more and more here in lower 48 you're getting a lot of CWD which is another prion disease very scary stuff you know it's there's parts of Wisconsin where my friend Doug durin lives where you know 50% of the deer they they test test positive for CWD yeah which is a real fatal disease and hasn't made the jump to humans yet but they're very concerned and you know this is coming from the deer like you said there's a lot of deer and where deer and moose live together the moose get it we don't have any deer so other than moose and caribou that's why we don't have the prion ik disease and you've no deer up there at all well moose or caribou or deer but we don't have anything other than moose and you have black tail which those are much further south down in southeast Alaska I don't know their exact range but nowhere near where I am that's interesting it's too harsh of country they don't it doesn't not the right habitat Wow so you when you take this caribou away from the wolf how does that go down what happened that day was uh thanks for mind me I'd forgotten that story talking about I had a trail up the mountain there's a lot of snow in the winter you know two three feet of snow so you gotta have packed trails to walk efficiently pack them down snow shoes and stuff and pretty much follow the same routes I'm following my trail to go up the mountain looking for food that day and I came on there were no caribou I couldn't find a caribou anywhere I didn't see caribou track for like months they're migratory and if they happen to migrate ten miles away I'm not gonna see him that's out of my range I come on a track of one caribou its wounded it's bleeding it's being chased by one wolf and it crosses my trail so I start chasing it was real fresh it was snowing out and I could tell this has just happened this injured caribou this wolf is chasing it up this mountain they're right ahead of me I've got to follow this so you have a rifle yeah yeah my rifle my constant companion I mean like that rifle goes just about everywhere I go up there so I start just jogging up the mountain as fast as I can go it's 5000 foot Mountain and this this caribou is wounded pretty badly he's bleeding almost continuously you know and it's clear to me that if he doesn't make it over the top of that mountain this walls gonna get him I mean going down the other side I don't know but this wolf has a good chance to get in this caribou this is usually the way they they injure them and it takes time it's not like they just run up and knock them down you know usually hamstring right you know they they'll jump on their back they um I see a lot of them injured on the the big muscle right here on the back legs that what you mean the hamstring right in here yeah yeah they'll get them in there you find a lot of caribou injured real bad that get away mmm they get away with big pieces of hide ripped off of um I killed a caribou once that only had two good legs it couldn't even walk anymore Wow but anyway I start chasing them up the hill that kind of zigzagging up the hill and this caribou obviously doesn't know this mountain it doesn't know where it's going it heads in a direction where there's some cliffs on the other side of this Ridge and I'm getting real hopeful at this point and I still haven't seen them they're there ahead of me on the mountain and sure enough the tracks come right up to the edge of the cliff both the caribou and the wolf and go right over the top of the cliff and I'm like there's no way that care we survived getting down because I know this mountain like the back of my hand and I just sat down there and I listened and I sat there at the top of the cliff and sure enough it's real quiet out there in the winter the Arctic is just like dead silent and I start hearing the crunching in the snow of this wolf he's down in the ravine and he knows I'm up there he can sense that I'm up there at the top of the cliff and he wants to to bug out of there at that point and he just walked up the other side of the ravine I'm looking across the ravine and I see the wolf going up and I hey that carrot was down in that ravine somewhere so he's just getting away from you yeah did they already know you by then because you you had shot quite a few wolves right you had trapped a few I shot a few not tons but we shot a few on the show that one time on the lake or it's frozen and yeah I didn't have a cameraman with me that was actually that story was told on the show and I documented it a little bit as much as I could with my little camera at the time that day I shot three walls but that was a very unusual situation that was those wolves were actually trying to get me which is almost unheard of but this was years before that this wolf and like almost every other wolf encounter I've ever had every other wolf encounter I've ever had the wolf wants nothing to do with you I mean the wolf knows I'm dangerous and how do they know you're dangerous are they having any interactions with other humans wolves know this all across North America I've only been able to find two documented bonafide II cases where wolves have killed humans in North America in recent times it was this one guy young guy up in Saskatchewan several years ago there was one woman in Alaska apparently was killed by wolves it almost never happens they just know that people are dangerous they've been persecuted I mean there were bounties on wolves I think it's in their DNA now hmm you know all wild animals grizzly bears they don't want anything to do with people 99.9% of the time it's interesting he's saying that grizzly bears where they're hunted don't want anything to do with people they're having a real problem with grizzly bears in places like Montana where they don't hunt them right where they don't have any fear many many generations of no fear of human beings and you're getting a lot of maulings because that yeah I wouldn't be crazy about walking out in national park where you're not allowed to bring a gun yeah well my Montana in particular there's they have a lot but in this case the wolf wanted out of there it walked up the other side of the ravine I watched it it was about three four hundred yards from me when he got up to the top of the ridge he stopped way way up high above I remember looking at him through binoculars or maybe it was the scope my rifle I just remember him giving a yell he lay down on the ground when he knew he was safe way up there and he just gave her yawn and I could see his tongue it's just like a dog I see him give this yawn like he had just climbed up this big mountain in about ten minutes you know so I just walked around the cliff went down in there got that caribou I actually made a backpack out of his rib cage to carry at home and it was cold it was like 25 below that was pretty brutal getting I think you know back to the camp from up on the mountain there how have you was it I don't know I a lot of things I don't weigh but I'd say a caribou like that probably weighs about 250 pounds something like that you know obviously don't take all of that weight at one time with me I've carry as much as I can did you have a backpack that like a pack frame I had a frame and I just stuffed everything in the remember it was so cold and I was so tired up there running up this mountain the one is dark it's dark a builder there's no Sun in the winter I just remember getting the head off that thing throwing the legs and stuff in the in the ribcage and throwing it onto that frame I had and it was all inside of the big ribcage still had the skin on it and everything was the wolf watching the whole time he was up on top of the mountain I didn't I wasn't paying close attention to him after that I don't know how long he hung out up there I would think that you would want to keep an eye on that [ __ ] wolves I spent a lot of time in the walls this is in a lot of time when the snow conditions are just right you can actually keep up with walls believe it or not I've stayed with Wolves all day long going eight or ten miles when the snow is deep enough they start walking single file in every wolf in the pack steps in exactly the same track and their stride when they slow down to a walk like that is just right for me I can step right in their tracks I don't even need snowshoes if there's less snow you can't you can't keep up with the wolf you know their normal gait their trotting you can't even come close to that speed but when the snow gets deep and they get single-file if you're in good shape you can jog behind wolves all day long and I followed wolves I followed a pack of 12 volts one time eight or ten miles they were hunting caribou right in front of me there was another time I remember taking care boomy away from a pack of wolves which I didn't even see they had killed the caribou but you know there's a lot of brush and different stuff around I discovered it because Ravens flew up off it I went over there and judging by the tracks there half a dozen walls around I took that caribou that time brought it home and ate it but I had a lot of interactions over the years of the wolves and I never had wolves act aggressive to me I've had a Mac curious I've had a Mac scared I've had him act indifferent I never had wolves act aggressive to me until that time January 2012 when a pack of 20 wolves literally took after me out on the lake and I did shoot three of those wolves and what was that about why do you think they were taken after you it was a very unusual situation first of all there were 20 wolves in one place that's unheard of up there that's totally unheard of the largest pack of wolves I've ever heard a count of that far north was 17 wolves and I was back in the 1970s usually there's five six wolves and a pack up there it's real hungry country it's hard for them to feed themselves if the pack gets bigger than that they have to split up go somewhere new but I don't know what happened that year I don't know if two packs combined I don't know if the pack just grew to that size but it was unheard of anyway I'm up on a mountain I look down at the lake it's in January it's just Twilight in the middle of day I see this big brown spot on the ice I'm like what the hell's that it's like out in front of my cabin about five hundred yards it's big brown spot first I thought it was water overflow that comes up through the ice sometimes when you get a crack get out the binoculars I'm looking in holy cow that's a giant pack of wolves that just took something down on the lake I can see like one of those breaking off one of them's breaking off and then coming back over and I I realized what's going on there was very little snow that year even though was January it had been cold since September but very little precipitation it was only about maybe four or five inches of snow so I could literally run down the mountain I was down at the lake within 20 minutes and I went right to my cabin I got my camera I got my tripod I'm like this is phenomenal I gotta document this and I start walking across the lake out to where they are to get pictures of this so I get about 350 yards from these walls I still don't know what the animal is that they got there and you know I can hear them you can hear bones breaking and stuff the Wolves you know it's just amazing yeah and I start taking pictures and I run out of batteries I'm like oh [ __ ] I ran out of batteries so I got to go back to the cabin that's like 150 yards behind me you know and I turn around I start walking back to cabin when I get about 30 yards or so from the cabin I look back over my shoulder and the whole goddamn pack of wolves is racing across the lake straight toward me I'd never seen anything like it I sprinted like Jesse Owens through the door that cabin I was only thirty yards from it I turn and I look back out the window and these wolves came right up into my yard they were 50 yards from the front door 20 wolves whoa yeah like this is unheard of wolves are usually hightailing it out of there when they see people so I get my new batteries I get the camera set back up I go back out by the time I get back out in the yard they're back over at this thing they've killed like 500 yards away and I want to get more pictures of this I got my rifle too of course so I start heading back over when I get about 350 yards from them I start taking more pictures I got a great picture you could pull it up maybe yeah I'm gonna see that it's in the note section on my facebook page as a story and unusual occurrence with the wolves anyway they're all eaten and I start taking pictures again and after I take some pictures first one then two then three the Wolves they're like I can see they stopped eating in there looking at the other 350 yards away but I can just see that they noticed that I'm back out there on the lake and they're sizing me up kind of and then I see some of them are just really slowly moving toward me like walking a few steps and stop and I'm thinking yeah I got my rifle and everything but there's a lot of wolves there how do I know they're gonna stop when I start shooting you know so I decided maybe it's best just make a slow retreat and I started backing up and walking back toward the cabin and the Wolves it looked like they were slowly walking towards me as I'm walking toward the cabin when I got about if I remember right it was a hundred yards from the cabin those wolves started galloping they just all 20 wolf started galloping towards me oh wow yeah those wolves right there they start galloping towards me and I dropped that tripod right there where I was and I you know I was a hundred yards from the cabin they were four hundred yards from me and I ran as fast as I could for the cabin because I thought hey if I start shooting what if they don't stop the ones it's 20 wolves there I got right four or five rounds of it if I had one in the chamber I had five rounds of ammunition there I ran for the cabin I go in the door and just like the time before they're right there in my front yard I look out in there 50 yards away they're all milling around 20 wolves I'm like Jesus Christ this is amazing I've never seen anything like this so but I'm safe and sound in the cabin so I just collect my thoughts I'm like man it's time to teach these walls a lesson if I let those walls leave now they're gonna think I'm just food I run away when they see me right now that I mean I could be out there in the night in the dark not even know wolves are around getting ambushed by Merson so I had to shoot some of those walls so I loaded up got made sure everything was perfectly right you know put some extra ammunition in my pocket checked everything now okay I'm set to go out there with this gun and and talk to these wolves about the situation and I go back out and they were back at the moose it turned out to be a moose they'd killed they were back over there at the kill so I thought well it'd be a lot safer if I shot from close to the cabin you know rather than go out there on the open ice so I'll just see if I can lure him back over here and I started running back and forth right in front of my cabin on the on the ice just to get their attention and sure enough it worked that whole pack of 20 wolves started racing across that Lake and a full gallop straight toward me I couldn't believe it I was right in front of my cabin I just run back and forth like 50 yards out to my little water hole in the ice and back to the cabin a few times and they just started running right at me so I sat right down there on the bank on the shore right you know 15 feet in front of my porch and started shooting I think if I remember right the first one I hit was 264 yards I measured it all off the next day it was kind of interesting just checking out the tracks and seeing what had happened I hit three of them yeah what happened when one got hit they stopped at the closest tracks to me were about 40 yards you know what if when it was happening it was it was happening so fast I was just sitting down you know braced shooting I remember reloading after I shot five times it all happened so fast but then the next day when I had time I went out there looked at all tracks and measured everything in size up situation figured out where I'd hit different wolves and stuff and I wrote that all down that's what I was mentioning in the note section there my Facebook page that story because I wanted when it was fresh in my mind to really have the details because I knew right then that something happened to me that doesn't really happen to people I mean to get have a pack of wolves come after you is a a very unusual occurred you could read you could read all over the place that wolves don't attack humans you know I've read that many times but they have they have at least technically historically historically a whole little red riding-hood that's all because they were trying to warn children about wolves yes now when you found these wolves and you like how when you start shooting and you hit one did the other ones freak out they realize what's going on the the some of they started putting on the brakes but like I said the first wolf I hit was over 250 yards and he was 264 yards something like that from me and some of the tracks came about 40 40 to 50 yards from me before they had stopped they were doing u-turns you could see in front they were all just milling around when I was reloading I just remember seeing all these wolves milling around in front of me like running around in circles and I was like holy cow and I'm reloading and I remember shooting one more time as they were headed away but they all took off they headed into the woods and one of the wolves that I had hit was parallel paraplegic but he was still going on two legs so I ran behind him yeah I ran in the cat the other the other two had just dropped immediately one of those hit right in the head but I ran in the cabin grabbed my 22 cuz I didn't want to put a big 3006 hole in this this wolf that was paraplegic and I chased him down caught up with him shot him with 22 then I could hear all the other wolves howling and howling they're like you know probably almost half a mile away from me by then they were up in the woods the other side of the lake and I just ran Turin over to that what they had killed and this is the first time I saw it it was a year and a half old bull moose and it was still all there the legs were still on and I got pictures of it stuff they had just started eating it not long before I started follow the pictures on your Facebook page not of that moose they put those on LBZ I think what's LBZ life below zero oh when they showed that story that was way but you know that's like six years ago I was one of my first stories that's a different move I got charged by one so so when you find the wolves that you did shoot and you know you shot and killed three of them yeah do you eat them you know I ate some of the hosts just cuz I was lon food I don't like to eat wolf me if I can help [Applause]

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