Hey y'all. Is it possible that deer respond to calls more than we think, but most of the time they just circle downwind and smell ya? The ones I have scared up and then grunted at usually circle downwind then snort when they smell me. I am wondering if many of them that hear us grunt in the stand are quietly circling downwind. In some cases they may not have a route to circle downwind, and those are the ones that we sometimes get a shot at.

Obviously, the older/smarter they are the harder it is to call them in. The buck I called in was a 7 pointer and it was in the second rut.. so he made a mistake.

Any thoughts?