I was checking my trail cam in the hidden clear cut which is roughly 3 miles behind a gate. You than go up thru a skid trail thru the timber to the ridge top and the clear cut is on the other side of the ridge. The cut is roughly 200 yards wide and almost a mile long. I entered the clear cut via the skid trail about 3 pm to check my camera and look for a buck. I went and sat down on a stump. Sunset is 4:00pm, right around 3:50 pm I hear a wolf howl. I than hear the same wolf howl again. So I howl back at it. That wolf responds, so I howl back, that one responds and another one howls in return. I than howl again, and the whole pack goes into a frenzy. This goes on for roughly 5 minutes. Than it goes quiet. I start making my way back to the clear cut entrance as I am losing light quickly. The moon comes out from behind the clouds and a wolf howls. I howl, and a wolf howls real close, it is coming in. I go back to my original spot and can only see maybe 100 yards thru my binoculars. To dark, I than make my way back to the clear cut entrance, and right at the entrance I howl, The original one howls back and the one that was coming in, howls right from where I started howling. The howls actually had a where are you sound to it. Pretty fricken cool. Basically howled back and forth for about 30-40 minutes. I just flat out ran out of daylight. I than walked the 10 minutes to my bike and road the 3 miles out with headlamps and bike lights.
Howling with the wolves!
- Thread starter tim
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The trail cams are from 2 different locations. the night shots are from the "bottom" of the drainage, the day shots are the top of the drainage, and I got my bull in the middle of this drainage. To get to the hidden clear cut, it is a 3 mile peddle with 700 vert feet of climbing in the first 1 1\2 and than rolls up and down. It takes me rougly an hour to get to the cam or clear cut from my truck. the truck is parked 5 minutes from the house.
ElkTrout
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shootbrownelk
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That sure is pretty cool. There was an article in my latest NRA American Hunter magazine about a hunter from Wisconsin (he's also a veteran)who was out scouting for pre hunt deer sign and stand location, when he jumped 3 wolves and was attacked. He kicked the first one that attacked in the head and turned him. He then shot it with his .380 auto. The other two were coming at him from the side but they ran off when the shot was fired. Officials from the Wisconsin DNR and the Feds are investigating the incident. He said the wolf ran off like a gut-shot deer. DNR followed a blood trail for 150 yards before losing it.