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re: Best deer calling techniques you’ve tried.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 10:18 am to SportTiger1
Posted on 12/12/18 at 10:18 am to SportTiger1
quote:I've only killed one over 3.5 that was not rut related. He may have been on his way to a food source, but really am not sure what the hell he was doing. It was a good bit before the rut.
90% of the larger bucks (3.5yr olds) i've seen have all been chasing or tending does. i've NEVER seen a mature buck feeding...like, not one time in my life.
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Posted on 12/12/18 at 10:31 am to 257WBY
Typically deer do not snort-weeze in the south because there is no competition among dominant bucks for does. There are more does than dominant bucks
Posted on 12/12/18 at 2:39 pm to Big_country346
I’ve had luck with grunt calls in south Louisiana. I also hunt in Nebraska in an area with plenty of mature dominant bucks. Rattling works if you have dominant deer. Young bucks will come to grunt but typically run from rattling.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:11 pm to SportTiger1
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90% of the larger bucks (3.5yr olds) i've seen have all been chasing or tending does. i've NEVER seen a mature buck feeding...like, not one time in my life.
I've only been deer hunting for about 7 years now, only seriously for about 5 years now so my experience is anecdotal at best. In the past 3 years I've killed 2 3.5 year old bucks within 5 minutes of watching them feed. One was on October 15 and was was Monday. Stupidly passed a 4.5 year old on opening day this year, September 22nd.
That said my rut spots are way different than the places I set up pre and post rut.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 3:54 pm to Big_country346
Best call I've seen is a feeder going off. Any deer that have been feeding on it that hear it will come to get fed.
Otherwise, the only time I've had success with any type of call was just to get a moving deer to stop and look.
Otherwise, the only time I've had success with any type of call was just to get a moving deer to stop and look.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 4:51 pm to Big_country346
Used grunt to kill several good bucks in Woodville area years ago. When it works you barely have time to put the call down and gun up.
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Posted on 12/12/18 at 6:47 pm to Jack Daniel
Saw three spikes at the same time last year about a month before peak breeding. Two of the spikes started pushing each other around an one snort wheezed, the spike that was about 40 yards away bristled up an charged over to them. Not saying it works everywhere but seeing that firsthand changed my attitude of how a younger deer would react with a snort wheeze. That was in SE la.
Have had my best luck with doe bleats followed by buck grunts.
Have had my best luck with doe bleats followed by buck grunts.
Posted on 12/12/18 at 8:50 pm to Big_country346
Grew up hunting in South La and Mississippi, never had a lot of luck calling
Past 5 years I’ve been hunting in North Arkansas and the deer up there are vocal as hell and will damn near carry a conversation with you returning your calls. It’s cool as shite
Past 5 years I’ve been hunting in North Arkansas and the deer up there are vocal as hell and will damn near carry a conversation with you returning your calls. It’s cool as shite
Posted on 12/13/18 at 6:56 am to HeadBusta4LSU
What part of northern arkansas?
Posted on 12/13/18 at 7:30 am to Big_country346
If I forget my calls for some reason, I go back and get them. I never want to be in the tree without calls. That said, my most successful calling has been done just after daylight or just before dusk with an estrous bleat can and a grunt call. Flip the can over, make a call. Wait about 10 seconds and do it again. Make three or four calls and then take your grunt call and make 3 or 4 tending grunts (short grunts).
During peak rut, I do this about every 20 - 30 minutes.
If I see a buck exhibiting aggressive behavior (making a scrape or rub), I call to them until I get their attention and then judge from the body language how to proceed.
During peak rut, I do this about every 20 - 30 minutes.
If I see a buck exhibiting aggressive behavior (making a scrape or rub), I call to them until I get their attention and then judge from the body language how to proceed.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 8:24 am to geauxbrown
I've always carried a grunt, but never used it much. Last year someone gave me a can at Christmas. A few years ago I was hunting a 5 year old on a small property that bedded off of the property a few hundred yards. I tried grunting, rattling bleating, everything but beating on the side of the stand to get him to come take a look. No dice.
I killed a nice 8 years ago that I'd seen tending a doe way down through the woods. I laid on the grunt but had no confidence. Twenty minutes later I caught him slipping through the edge of a cutover and killed him.
This past weekend I was in a place with a balanced ratio and a number of mature bucks. With deer on every side of me, and young bucks scent checking and pushing does, I was both blowing a grunt and flipping that can periodically.
Mature ten walked right out in the center of a plot and got himself shot. I don't know for sure what he was responding to, but at least it didn't run him off.
I killed a nice 8 years ago that I'd seen tending a doe way down through the woods. I laid on the grunt but had no confidence. Twenty minutes later I caught him slipping through the edge of a cutover and killed him.
This past weekend I was in a place with a balanced ratio and a number of mature bucks. With deer on every side of me, and young bucks scent checking and pushing does, I was both blowing a grunt and flipping that can periodically.
Mature ten walked right out in the center of a plot and got himself shot. I don't know for sure what he was responding to, but at least it didn't run him off.
Posted on 12/13/18 at 8:40 am to Huntinguy
Our rut is early basically at the start of gun season in October. You can garner attention with an aggressive grunt sequence mixed with the can. Late post rut like this. I have noticed soft grunt sequences will pull in deer. But the "can" after thanksgiving is useless here. Never nothing loud and over powering. softer and consistent. Rattling has never done a thing on west side of the state,
Posted on 12/13/18 at 11:04 am to smoked hog
Newton county
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