Here's the story on that buck in the tree. With a little something I forgot about.
Been there!
12-06-2013, 07:19 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,607
The deer we hunt do not seem too receptive to vocal calls. Neither rattling nor grunting. They tell me it's due to the buck to doe ratio.
That being said, the buck I killed in VA this year came to a grunt. But I must be honest, the success rate is so low that I normally grunt and rattle just to give me something to do. Not because I think it's going to call anything in.
That being said, the buck I killed in VA this year came to a grunt. But I must be honest, the success rate is so low that I normally grunt and rattle just to give me something to do. Not because I think it's going to call anything in.
12-06-2013, 07:31 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
Posts: 1,672
I never rattle. It can scare off the younger bucks and I am out there to enjoy the thrill of the hunt and fill the freezer. I don't want to lesson my chances of doing the second of the two main reasons I go hunting.
12-06-2013, 07:36 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Anne Arrundle County, Maryland
Posts: 1,672
12-06-2013, 09:51 AM
#19
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 21,193
I had a grunt tube that I tried many times in the woods. I saw a buck out browsing one afternoon too far out. I grunted and watched him through the binoculars and he never once responded. He did look my way, but then went back to what he was doing. I did have a young buck respond to the same tube but never a nice one like yours.
