ORIGINAL: wallhangr
I can't remember the author of the article, but his strategy was to basically jump the deer out of their bedding areas and then call to them with a grunt or blowand to evenstomp on the ground to calm them and get them to think it was another deer that was entering their territory (calming them). Now this was applied to gun hunting, but the basic premise was that hearing what they thought was another deer would take them off alert and possibly get them curious.
We (my brothers and friends) don't intentionlly jump deer, but it happens if we are still hunting. One tactic that we have used with great success is to use a can and bleat at them. (This only works if they don't know it was a human that jumped them.) We turn the can over 3-4 times every 30 seconds or so for about 5-7 minutes. A LOT of times bucks will circle back to check it out. But, patience is a huge key, it takes them a bit to come back.....usually 5-15 minutes.
How about a doe bleat though? How many blind call with a doe bleat?
I also do this when I am hunting a very thick area or on the edge of a marsh where it is thick all around. It is very effective.
Now, as I admitted before, I know these things won't work everywhere....very few places to be exact. The areas I hunt up here get little pressure and the herd dynamics, buck to doe ratio, is very good. If I were hunting back home in WI, I would expect these tactics to work very few times.