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WhistlingBadger:

--- Quote from: ssrhythm on January 19, 2021, 03:20:21 pm ---Back when I used the calls, the buck that I shot at and missed and ran off came back to the doe call.  You are correct about the sound differece not being much, but there is a difference, so I trusted what I saw Roger instructing about using them and blew the doe call a steady one second call.  The deer did a 180 and came right back in looking for the deer he heard, and I got my first trad kill.  Would it have come to the buck call?  Probably.  They aren't expensive, so I figure why not have both.  I never used a bleat can before 5 or so years ago, as I had never heard (or never noticed) a deer make that noise in the woods.  One early season sit in Ohio, I heard it very loud and thought someone may have been hunting near me...until the deer did it over and over and over walking back and forth about 50 yards in both directions.  I figured it was a late fawn that had lost mama.  I know a lot of folks who wont go in the woods in November without one.

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Yeah, I was watching a heard of mulie does and fawns one time from a couple hundred yards away.  One of the fawns was goofing around and got lost, and starting bleating like a lamb.  Pretty easy sound to replicate with the voice in a pinch.  I suspect it would get a doe's attention early in the season.  Never tried it on a buck.

IsaacW:
Been years since I posted here, but hoping to be back. 

Anyway... I did some historical call building a number of years ago and had some fun...  https://docs.google.com/document/d/14gMffzrN9p8Ocektaw-NYv-vQAanY5mumWDUTfwuvLA/edit?usp=sharing

archeryrob:

--- Quote from: ssrhythm on January 18, 2021, 09:43:59 pm ---So, I think grunts can work more than they are currently working for people...if they just sound more like what real deer do.  Deer aren't hollering across 20 acres at other deer...they usually grunt softly to communicate with deer that are near them...us trying to call at and make a deer hear us that is 100 yards away isn't realistic. 

Thats where my head is on this subject at this time FWIW.

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I grunted a 5 point up early November that was trying to slip through the bottom. He got 20 yards in front of me and grunted trying to find where that doe was. It was light enough it was hardly audible on my iPhone as I was recording it and people didn't notice it until I pointed it out.

The loudest grunts I ever heard were bucks right on a does tail trotting so he's breathing harder. It is still not quite as loud a the YT video show you to do.

Fox:
Dang guys I’m glad this conversation picked up again... I really appreciate all the great responses! I’m going to have to try the calls you were all talking about!

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