RE: Blind calling??
When I was younger and the hunting pressure was less, and the buck/doe ratio was better, I did a lot of blind calling with the grunt tube. I had a lot of success with it. Many of the times I was confident that bucks were within 250 yards of me, and when I hit the tube, it created interest and the bucks slowly came myway.
But I haven't been nearly as successful with it in recent years.