I'm anxiously waiting for the Feds to get out of the way, so that I can make my Idaho tags good! Darned things are still hanging around the in-law's dairy farm, and they've moved WAY down into Utah, and I hear, into Washington and Oregon. I still believe them tree-huggers that claimed they'd stay in the Clearwater!!!
Last time I got a shot at a wolverine was in Montana, a few miles north of Wolf Creek town site. We'd been in elk hunting, on the way out, there was a small meadow in the bottom of a little valley, and on the far side, mebbe 200 yards out, was what looked like a bear cub digging in the berm for something. Back then, when you bought an elk tag, they gave you a bear tag, so I slid out of the pickup, leaned across the fencepost, and took a look-see. It waren't a bar, it was a wolverine. Still legal to shoot 'em, just had to take the skull and hide in to game and fish for measuring and let 'em have a tooth...so I let the critter have a 165 Hornady square amidships. The thing went down at the shot, but as I was about halfway through the fence, the thing jumped straight in the air, and ran up the fenceline through the timber, to the top of the ridge beyond. I figured that if it could move that well after taking that hit, I was NOT going into the timber in the dark to look for it. Next day, we found where the critter was hit, followed the blood trail as far as we could, but lost it, and never did find the animal...the "trophy" has to remain in my memories.
