ORIGINAL: davidmil
And what do you call really good luck? I mean, really... give us some numbers and percentages of deer seen, killed, called etc. I see so many people come up with this crap and they've killed a total of a handful of deer or only hunted a couple years and they want to tell everyone "this is gospel". Give us some facts.... like I've shot 84 deer with a bow and never heard it once.
And childers, forgive me for being skeptical... but you're 16 or 17 years old. And how many times have you really heard it. I'm not calling anyone a liar, but I sure do think a couple weekends of huntingdoesn't really tell us a lot about snort wheeze experience. Oh heck, I'll call 'em like I see 'em... "Bull Hockey". I think there is so much "disinformation" being spread around the internet by people that just want to hear themselves talk.
It seems the OP asked a very straightforward question. He didn'tpoll who has hunted the longest or why some hunters don't believe in using calls. If you choose sitting in a tree waiting for a patterened deer to come by, that's a great choice as it is a proven method that has consistantly been used to harvest animals since the beginning of time. But while it isyour chosen method,there is no need to ridicule orverbally degrade someone who uses a different tactic andhas had successusing calls.
Obviously deer don't make these vocalizations all the time. They are used verysporadically and commonly only during a short portion of the rutting cycle. The snort-wheeze and the newer aggressive grunt callssuch as a 'growl' or 'roar' are simulations of vocalizations used by dominant rutting bucksand are very aggressive calls that should be used only at appropriate times. They will indeed scare off smaller bucks as they are used bymature bucks and that is precisely the deer they are meant to draw in.There are literally hundreds if not thousandsof documented video-recordedharvests available as evidencethat grunt calls,roars, bleats, snort-wheezes,and rattling have brought indeer that would nothave otherwise presented a shot to the hunter. Toimply that these callsdon't work or that discussion of their use inunwarrantedis completely ridiculous.