I am a HUGE proponent of the snort wheeze call and have had great luck with it in the past 2 seasosn - pre rut and rut....I will continue to use it in the future.
Here are some excerpts from my hunting journal - the first from New york's opening day 2006;
Finally I see him, on the field edge, working a scrape! I REALLY don't call much this early in the season, but this year is different...I decide, Why not?
I reach for the Primos Buck Roar and watching through the binos, I let out a snort wheeze. He throws his head up in my direction like a rocket! The, like he is on a string, heads right to my tree! YES! I had some time to look at his rack more - good buck! He was not wide, and spindley, but his beams were real LONG! I make out at least nine points, not counting his broken, or lack of one brow tine. It is not uncommon for bucks around here to NOT have brows at all.
He started to circle around me, but diverted back up to the does. I grunt a few times, then "roar" at him. He looked again, but more importantly, didn't spook. Hmmm. Another snort wheeze brings him right in on a string
Now the best snort wheeze encounter ever - from this year; It resulted in a 4 year old buck getting a ride on the Tahoe;
Around 0900 I hear something in the thick stuff in front of me, about 80 yards out. Not seeing anything, I gave a few bleats with a Primos The Can. 2 minutes later I spot a big bodied deer in the field, 75 yards out, walking away from me. The field borders a swamp, so his feet and legs were black!
I let out a single grunt on the Primos Buck Roar, the deer, which I can see as a buck, turns and walks stiff legged towards me. He angles to my left, right down the trail that I have no shot on due to a large branch...he buttonhooks back around some bushes...I grunt again and he walks right at me...
I am motionless in the stand, with a tree between us...he puts his head back and 20 yards from me - lets out a snorth wheeze! VERY COOL!
He turns around and heads back into the thicker bushes...so I use the Buck Roar and snort wheeze at him. Well...He didnt like that one bit! He walks THROUGH the bushes, throwing his head back and forth through the branches...
He walks out into an opening 15 yards from me...I draw...wait for him to turn away...Mnnnt...pull hard into the Carter Evolution Plus backtension release...THWACK! He drops in his tracks! He was a few yards closer than I thought, so the Trophy Ridge Bunker Buster broadhead clipped his spine...