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My meadow was empty for several reasons. Another group of hunters were running up and down the river making lots of noise. Several trips a day! It was way too warm to get the bulls rutty and coming in from the surrounding hills. Several bears were feeding in the streams and the wolves had killed a moose a couple meadows over. They ran one bear off and tried to run my hunting partners off also.

The second to last day of the moose hunt we decided to investigate what the wolves were yipping about a couple days earlier. Quite the ruckus, sounded like deeper pitched coyote yips. We had seen zero moose and not much sign so what the heck. The bear we had seen was moving much faster than their normal pace so we guessed the wolves had a kill in that general area and had run the bear off. My partners were walking that way and were still a 1/3 mile away from it when they noticed movement behind them. At 100 yards four wolves were trotting towards them ears up very confident. After all they had just run a brown bear off their kill! This was a beach meadow, two of the wolves cutoff into the trees one went down lower on the beach and one stayed at the high tide line. My buds dropped and got prone. One drew a bead on the lower wolf and the other on the upper one. Click! No boom! WTH, light primer strike. My other partner drops the lower wolf and both proceed to try for the upper one, which, by this time is moving out. They drew blood but unfortunately it made it into the woods which were thick and soaking wet. Two hours for searching and they couldn't find it.

Empty meadow.



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One less moose muncher.

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