In over 50 years of hunting in wolverine country I have only seen 2 wolverines. When I lived in NW Montana in the mid '70s, a local family of trappers trapped 27 wolverines in the Upper Whitefish Mountains one winter. Even FWP didn't know there were that many wolverines in that entire mountain range.
I saw my first wolverine while scouting for a Mountain Goat in the Lower Madison Mountain Range in SW Montana. My partner and I were having lunch on an open ridge. There was a little knob below us and 3 mule deer bucks were bedded on top of it and all looking downhill.
We looked downhill and a wolverine was coming up the slope toward the deer. The smallest buck, a forkhorn, got up and made a couple of lunges towards the wolverine, and it ran off.
I saw my second wolverine in 1999 when I was on a Dall ram hunt in Canada's MacKenzie Mountains. The Outfitter also offered wolf and wolverine tags for $25 or $50. I bought one of each, along with a $2000 mountain caribou tag.
The afternoon that we hunters arrived in base camp, we were all standing around talking when a wolf was spotted trotting along the shore of the lake next to camp. The outfitter told me to get my rifle, and one of the guides said to follow him. The next time we saw the wolf, he was in the brush 30 yards in front of us and the was 2 yards in front of me, but between me and the wolf. The wolf saw us and was instantly gone.
Several days later I had shot my ram, and my guide and I were packing our backpack camp and my ram down a valley to meet our super cub ride out. We stopped for a short break, and a wolverine came wallking up the vallet toward us. He stopped about 100 yards from us, and I had my wolverine.
