What Northern big woods pressure looks like...

[Onemanwolphpack]

This is from a trail cam picture taken on a neighboring property. This is the pressure the North woods deals with.

[Tim H]

The predators hunting season never ends. That’s the tough part.

[Ranger Matthews]

Great picture!

[VilasCo]

whoa! What a picture. I found the rear half of a fawn in my yard last month.

[Dewey]

Looks about right but I think that could just as easily be a bear as well. They kill way more fawns than we know.

[218er]

I heard a stat from Qdma that like .4- to .6 fawns make it to their first hunting season. It seems insane since you see 2 and 3 fawn does constantly but I guess there are bear, wolves, cars, coyotes, cats, birds, natural diseases, etc.

[matt1336]

Wow. He offered a nice broadside/quartering to shot in that pic

[Tim H]

Looks about right but I think that could just as easily be a bear as well. They kill way more fawns than we know.

And yet it takes 8 plus years to get a bear tag by us.

[Cchez]

Predators are such a hassle up here, its not even funny. Countless cam pics and encounters with wolves.

[headgear]

A relative was working in the yard at his cabin one time, doe and fawn were nearby chomping on some grass. Wolf jumped out of the bushes and grabbed the fawn. Once the wolf saw him it took off and left the fawn so he went to inspect, snapped the fawns neck in a flash.

[Onemanwolphpack]

My question is, will bedding be similar when the hunting pressure isnt there but wolves are common? Does it push the bucks into the same sort of pattern as what dan talks about in heavily hunted areas?

[headgear]

I think bedding will be "similar" across all areas and all kinds of pressure, one universal truth is deer will try and bed with safety in mind. To them it doesn't matter if that is wolves, yotes, the occasional bear or hunters, they want to be able to smell, see or hear danger coming in advance. Even on land with little to no pressure I think instincts take over and the deer bed with safety in mind.

[tundra@1]

Here has been my experience with wolves.... the area I am hunting is the western UP, that is west of FR 16, from 2 to the Lake....

Wolves are for the most part, on the move, as the hunt for food, in this area keeps it that way. "Local control", has helped, but this is one smart animal...... So in a place like this, you need to know how to hunt deer with wolves. I learned a ton of stuff from a guy on the Mn/Canada border,,,,,,,,,,

When I see wolf sign in my area, one thing I learned, is that as the late afternoon, comes, the bucks, at least those that I am after, are already bedded down, as they know the wolves are up, for the early evening prowl. I have seen wolves right on a 8 pointers but, and wishing the deer would win, that race.......

The wolf is a stone cold killer, its a killing machine, that's what they do.... they remind me of sharks when I was in the pacific....

I see a lot of wolf sign, I have to move...... Wolves need solid mgt, but that will never happen in MI ,,, never

Wolves are so bad, that I spend most of my time in SW Wisconsin, and out in the Dakotas, but always hunt the UP once other tags are filled or of course the late season,,,,,, It is a shame, what they have done to the deer herd.......

With baiting so prevelant, it just creates a food plate for them

[stash59]

My question is, will bedding be similar when the hunting pressure isnt there but wolves are common? Does it push the bucks into the same sort of pattern as what dan talks about in heavily hunted areas?

Doesn't matter which predator is after them. They'll find the most secure bedding that keeps them out. Think water for an osbtacle. Then maybe elevations with long ranges of sight, in all directions.

[Onemanwolphpack]

Doesn't matter which predator is after them. They'll find the most secure bedding that keeps them out. Think water for an osbtacle. Then maybe elevations with long ranges of sight, in all directions.[/quote]

That is the line of thinking I've followed. Its tough because I have "too many" bedding options, with nothing but woods and tamarack swamps for miles. I've found beds in all the spots I've learned to look for on the beast. Benches, islands, bowls, points, all of them. Just not a high enough deer density for all of them to be used.