Both cougars and wolves have recently been spotted in the woods I'll be turkey hunting in this year. And last year I found fresh bear tracks right below the cabin. All this in central Wisconsin, just North of the Dells. I've read accounts of critters, other than turkeys, responding to turkey calling, maybe I'll get some first hand experience this spring. Brings a new level of awareness to me. In past years the only thing that concerned me, while turkey hunting, was the bull out in the pasture. A beef bull, not a dairy bull, few things meaner than a dairy bull! I moose hunt up in very remote Canada where wolves and bear are a constant, just wasn't expecting this in central Wisconsin. Anyone have a close encounter in the turkey woods, other than with a turkey?


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