If I had a rifle and saw that deer season or not I'd have put him down then started on the coyotes. A friend shot a nice 4 pt with an 18.5 inch inside spread, the buck had no brow tines. He didn't get the best hit and we found him the next morning the problem was that the coyotes found him the night before. You could see the battle he fought by the tracks.
Coyotes are bad but the wolves esp in the U.P. are worse. If you leave a wounded deer overnight forget it.
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There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter...Earnest Hemingway
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