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Aaron1726:
Sounds like you're getting close and trying to learn from each time out.  Good luck!  I enjoy the stories as well.

lenador:

--- Quote from: Aaron1726 on October 23, 2023, 09:27:08 pm ---Sounds like you're getting close and trying to learn from each time out.  Good luck!  I enjoy the stories as well.

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Thanks, I was hoping that it may encourage some people who have never hunted before. I hunted 3 times with a friend 10 years ago but at the time I was being drawn into compounds and leasing land and all that jazz. I made a self bow and took it out once on public land but become discouraged without anyone to help me learn. Honestly my Osage staves staring at me from the basement and the inflation of groceries pushed me to get back into it in the simplest way possible. Self bow, on the ground, public land, nothing fancy. I don't even have a quiver yet. I use the fingers cut off a glove to sheath my broad heads and stick them in the side of my hiking pack. I bought cheap arrows and re fletched them with feathers. The most expensive thing I've purchased was the broad heads. Figured if there was something that mattered it was a good broad head.

archeryrob:
Is your grunt call adjustable? Where is can be buck or doe. I keep mine set on doe as I have personally observed 8 points head away from a buck grunt. I had one in 2020 walk away from a buck grunt and then do a 180 and come right at me on the change to doe. This will only work if they are actively searching for a doe, in the rut. If they are not searching for does, or already locked on the trail of one, they will not normally respond to your doe call either. Bucks grunt work on that big big that thinks he's king and wants to fight. The other bucks not wanting to fight are intimidated by a buck grunt. Anyway, that is my opinion, from my observations hunting.

lenador:

--- Quote from: archeryrob on October 25, 2023, 05:28:59 pm ---Is your grunt call adjustable? Where is can be buck or doe. I keep mine set on doe as I have personally observed 8 points head away from a buck grunt. I had one in 2020 walk away from a buck grunt and then do a 180 and come right at me on the change to doe. This will only work if they are actively searching for a doe, in the rut. If they are not searching for does, or already locked on the trail of one, they will not normally respond to your doe call either. Bucks grunt work on that big big that thinks he's king and wants to fight. The other bucks not wanting to fight are intimidated by a buck grunt. Anyway, that is my opinion, from my observations hunting.

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I don't use a call. I just use my mouth. If I was hunting in the rut I'd probably get a proper call but I'm not going to hunt firing firearm season so I'll be limited to pre rut. I wasn't trying to call him in as much as just getting him to stop moving so fast.

archeryrob:
I called a buck in 2020 the day before Halloween. I grunted him and he was like "Nope" and turned a away. I changed the call to a Doe Bleat and he did a 180 and died shortly later. I've called bucks off a scrape line with a doe bleat. They are worth having from Middle of October through December here in Maryland. "The rut" is not just during firearms season, it is every time any doe comes in heat and the boys get crazy. It's one crazy month with warm up before and tail downs covering 2 to 2 1/2 months.

Now, I have to state, many times if a buck is not actively searching, or if he is following a fixed scent already. He will not give two craps about a grunt from your mouth or call. I would say 70% of the time I get next to nothing or no reaction. Other times it is like magic and he will come in like on a line straight to you. It works less than it does work, but when it does, you'll never go hunting without it again.

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