RE: Deer Vocalizations, The Roar/Growl Phenomenon
I wish I had a camera filming my hunt this year. You'd all know what it sounds like. It's not a drawn out tending grunt, its not just a little louder grunt, its an "I'm going to absolutely kill you" grunt. I watched and heard it several times along with 8-10 snort wheezes from a mature buck defending his doe from a young but persistant intruder. He made all sorts of vocalizations I've never heard, from just regular grunts, to the "roar" grunts, to snort wheezes (and variations on those too). There was so much intensity it was amazing.
All that being said, I doubt I'll buy the call, since I watched this thing for a while and no other bucks were called in. [8D]