Guys,
The stand location, wind direction and timing are all a lot more important than calling.
However I will call with either my grunt or my bleat can every 10 minutes or so starting about November 1st. Prior to that I will use a very light bleat at about the same intervals.
I have seen the bleat can run does off during the rut, but have never seen either run off a buck. Although deer do not respond to it most of the time.
This year I was sitting on a cut over. at 5 till 9AM I hit my bleat 3 times and changed to a tending type grunt immediatly after. All of a sudden here he comes. a medium sized 8pt came running straight at me from about 100 yards awy in the cut. He slowed up at about 75 and started acting kinda nervous and I shot him. W/O the calls I doubt I would have ever seen him. But w/o me being there and the wind being in my face and being there when he was within hearing range, I KNOW I would not have seen him
Jim
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