If a deer snorts at you and you snort back, it is suppose to make them think that they were scared by another deer. It won't bring them back (at lest it never did with me) but it will keep a deer from snorting for 5 minutes and alarming every deer in the county, unless it smelled you, then it knows you are not another deer. If you get on the edge of some thick cover and have a buddy blow a snort call and stomp with his foot about 80 yards away or so, you may just see a buck tring to "sneak" out of the area. Most likily if you do it yourself, you will just see alarmed deer running away from you. I've grunted deer out of thick cover, just sit on the edge and blow a grunt call softly once or twice every few minutes. I never had any luck rattling, but I have called in many bucks by blowing a grunt call and rubbing a stick against a pine tree to simulate a buck making a rub. There are commercial snort calls, it's called a grunt snort and wheeze call. If you "grunt snort and wheeze" a buck it is suppose to challenge him to a fight. Doesn't look like it would work to me. Why would you make all that noise if you can already see the buck? If you do "blind" snorting you will only make deer think another deer is alarmed by something in your area, and you don't want that. Hope this helps clear things up a bit. Good luck.


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