RE: Bucks aren't responding? (Illiinois)
I've had this same problem with the older bucks. I have had some success this year grunting in a few smaller bucks. As a matter of fact I grunted a small eight pointer this morning, but I decided to let him go since he had a beautiful rack albeit small and was only a yearling. Another year and he'll be a nice buck, two or three years and he could be huge. If your hunting an area with a lot of other hunters close by then odds are the older bucks have caught on to the calling. I suggest using the growl call. It's a new call that we've just now caught on to. It's also the only call I've used this year that has brought in a nice buck, just not close enough.