The wolves appeared shortly after Scott Wundinich shot and gutted a deer, then climbed back into his stand.
"Four or five, including a pitch-black male, came running out of the woods together,'' recalled Wundinich, 48, of Eveleth, Minn. "I looked to my left and saw three more. There were three or four more on my other side. I was stunned. I yelled and screamed, but they pretty much ignored me. They paced back and forth. They wanted my deer and the gut pile.''
Despite firing several shots to try to scare away the wolves, they lurked, sometimes howling and barking, about 50 yards from Wundinich's stand for 45 minutes.
"I was scared,'' he said. "I've been hunting since I was 12 and I've never seen anything like this. It was a real humbling, eerie feeling.''
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Afraid to get down, Wundinich hunkered in his stand until darkness descended on the woods near Lake Vermilion in northeastern Minnesota.
Then, with his rifle still loaded, he cautiously climbed down.
"I could hear them,'' he said.
With a small flashlight in his mouth, he scrambled to his ATV about 120 yards away. "I started it up and drove out of the woods as fast as I could go.''
