I watched the Deer and Deer hunting show the other night also, and when I saw it my reaction was like G2's buddy. I about jumped out of the recliner because I finally saw a buck make the sound I heard and saw a buck make about 4 seasons ago. It was the second week of Nov. and the rut was in full swing. I was sitting in the inside cornerof an "L" shaped part of the woods. It was one of my better stands, as I had killed 4 bucks and 2 does out of it over the years. There is a trail that comes out right in the corner and enters the field. They will feed in that corner, and then walk down the other edge heading the other way. I have watched hunreds of hours of deer in this woods so I know their patterns here well.
I decided to take my decoy back there that night and set her out about 20 yards out in the field. As you decoy hunters know, sometimes they help ya, sometimes they screw ya. Well, this night she screwed me. I had a doe with a fawn come from the inside of the woods. She was definitely heading out to the field like they always do. She saw the decoy and it really spooked her. She ran back in the woods and stomped it it for a wahile. You could tell she wanted to go out there really bad. She finally started down the inside of the wood away from me. Man all of a sudden I heard the loudest, deepest longest buck grunt I had ever heard, but it wasn't like a regular grunt. Then the woods went nuts. There was a buck in that area that was the biggest buck I had ever seen personally in all my years of hunting in our areas. This thing was huge bodies and huge racked. I saw him once before outside a woods about 1/2 mile away. And a guy who lives right there who hunts a different area saw it several times down at the same place and he said the same thing about the buck. We named him Brutas. I always hoped he would get down my way. well, this was him!
Hestarted chasing that doe around behind me, and was running off a smaller buck, all the while making this sound. One time he stopped about 25 yards from me, but he was behind some saplings so I couldn't shoot. He ended up chasing her out in the open field about 75 yards down from me. I doe bleated at him. He stopped and looked down at the decoy, then back at doe. He did this about 3 times and decided on the real doe. He was still making this sound as he chased her across the field. I know that he was following the doe, and that if I wouldn't have had that stupid decoy out, she would have went right on out and he would have followed. I would have had all kinds of shots. But it wasn't meant to be.
After I got home, I called my hunting buddy and told him all about it. I told him I have never heard that sound before. I honestly said at one point " It wasn't like a grunt, it was almost like he was growling". I have never heard that sound again. Untill this week on the show. That is exactly what I heard the buck do.
I am gonna buy one and try it during the rut. Ya never know. And if it helped me kill a monster like Brutas, it would be well worth the $$$$. If I hadn't witnessed it my self, I might be more skeptical. But I have and I have wondered about that sound since I heard that buck do it. I will try it!