tonights hunt

[georgiahick]

guys Im pretty new to bow hunting, but I already love it, feels alot more personal than with a gun.

I have to hunt out of a blind do the fact my doc dont want me in no climber.

I am set up at the base of a draw near two small streams surrounded by foothills. I had a huge buck come within 20 ft of my blind but from the back side (generally down wind) so I havnt cleaned it out as much on that side he stopped stared then walked off in a direction he would not expose himself. I did a soft contact doe grunt and he froze and gave me a great flank opportunity, but I did not take the shot for fear of hitting a twig or small branch and wounding this deer. after a minute he started walking away again, again I hit a contact grunt, this time he blew and took off like no tommorow....will he be back? What did I do wrong?

[bhunter50]

generally when you have a big ol buck that close, grunting will do just that, scare the heck out of em! he knows there isn't a buck there and at this time of year he will be very reluctant to investigate, especially seeing how he was soo close to where the grunt erupted from!! i don't know what to tell you as far as whether he will return, depends on what this area is to him, bedding.....or if he was using it as a travel route......he may just alter his route a short ways....but not far i would imagine. good luck!

[georgiahick]

when I grunted he was at abot 15 yrds then again at about 40 when he bolted

[bhunter50]

the old adage......."they didn't get that big by bein' stupid"......not that what you did was stupid....just that the deer knew better due to that he was just in your area and didn't suspect another buck in the area.....the deer would have had to be in a rut crazed frenzy state to respond to point blank calling in my opinion. hope ya get em!