Baiting Wolves with dropped meat...

[RazorOH]

I am in Mystery Lake and am using the Camp Office as my base home. I wanted to try and hunt wolves with a bow and arrow from the porch of the office. I dropped a LOT of meat outside from the porch because a wolf patrols this area all of the time. I have actually seen the wolf walk through this "Meat Field" and not even stop to take a sniff! I know that you can drop decoys to hopefully stop a wolf from chasing you, but it appears to me that this does not work? Has anybody else run across this problem?

[elloco999]

Wolves ignore anything that is dropped on the ground unless you drop it as a decoy while it is already stalking you but not that close that it starts it's final sprint.

Currently the only way to use meat as bait is to get a wolf to stalk you, drop a piece of meat and walk a little further. Then wait until the wolf stops to check out the meat and put an arrow in it's head.

However I would suggest using a fre/ burning torch/ burning flare. This will hold the wolf for as long as it is burning, while a piece of meat will only stop a wolf for a short while (and I think there is even a chance it will not stop at all).

[selfless]

Wolves ignore everything unless they are following you when you drop it.

Bears are almost the opposite. They check out everything except when they are following you.

[RazorOH]

Thanks for the feedback, hopefully they are going to fix this with the wolves. I guarantee that if there were slabs of meat lying on the ground a wolf, trying to survive, is going to stop and take advantage of the gift! Allowing this 'baiting' mechanism would add to our survival kit.