ORIGINAL: magicman54494
Greg, Do you think you "called in" the first buck as well? (by walking on the crunchy snow)
Nice story. I do a lot of blind calling during the rut. I have called a lot big ones in. Two things I have noticed:
1. they usually take a long time to respond.
2. they rarely attemp to circle down wind once they decided to come. They usually come on a bee line.
That is a definite possibility.
As far as taking a long time to respond, I guess it depends on how far away they are when they first hear the commotion. One time I had a big 12 pointer (a 10 with matching forked g-2s) come running in from about 150 yards, when I first spotted him. Incidentally, I was "practicing with my grunt call because I really didn't think I was going to see anything. That is how I learned to blind call. Oh yeah, I missed him. [
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The ones that seem to take a long time to respond are the ones that I see first and then call. It seems that they are on a mission and it is hard to distract them to a point where they finally get mad/curious enough to commit to comming in.