Save your back and legs, use a game cart or jet sled with pull harness. Even better, use a skidoo and shoot them where you can pull the skimmer directly alongside.
Bring a small shovel with you. If you miss your shot, go to where it went into the snow and scoop every foot until you find it, they don't usually go far or deflect once in snow.
I have enough black bear hides kicking around. I take the meat and skull only now. Regulations recently changed where you can leave the hide in the bush as long as you take the meat. Bear makes for great smoked ham.
Next grizz, I will take both hide and meat. Not too many salmon bears where I am.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/dall-sheep-survey-kluane-region-decline-concerning-1.7024101
You're not wrong. Kluane permit was cancelled due to low sheep populations. The last couple winters have had a super high snow load.
I habitually shoot for the shoulder, but I wait until the onside shoulder is back covering the vitals, if quartering I aim for the opposite shoulder. This puts my bullet through the vitals and takes a shoulder. Not a fan of tracking critters with sharp teeth and claws through thick stuff.
Any reason the trapping success pics thread is in the predator hunting subforum and not the trapping subforum???
Picture of my first wolverine. It wrapped a 7ft long 1/8th snare up into an 8" long mess
1st year trapping.
5x coyotes (have lost 1 to other coyotes, and one to a wolf pack)
1x wolf
1x wolverine
1x otter
2x marten
2x lynx
4x foxes
11x beaver
10x squirrels
*Updating this after each check
Dec 2023 update. Did some problem beaver control and caught an additional 9 beavers.