early season calling
 

our season starts oct. 1st here in oklahoma - what type of calling (if any) would you guys suggest that early on?? any scents?? thanks in advance!!

RE: early season calling
 

I pretty much only carry a grunt tube in the early season. Mainly as a social call. Seems to be the only thing that works for me until the rut.

RE: early season calling
 

Contact and social calls, that means grunts, bleats and contact call which the "can" imitates.

RE: early season calling
 

Ours starts the same day as yours. I use no calls in the early season. I just want to be as scent free as possible and see what the deer are doing. Save the calling for when the bucks get aggressive.

RE: early season calling
 

If I use any calling it would be a doe bleat or a contact gunt with my Tru Talker and when it comes to sents I might use Trails End 307 by Wlid Life Research on a drag rag.

RE: early season calling
 

I'm in OK as well hawg. I use the can quite frequently and have had pretty good results, I usually get to whack a yote at some point as well. And it called in a bobcat 2 seasons ago.

RE: early season calling
 

I may be in the minority, but I'll take my rattling antlers and just tickle them a little, no bashing like rut time, but it seems to draw some interest. I don't bother w/ scents at all. I do use a grunt tube a little also, but not much of either.

RE: early season calling
 

well my season opens saturday and i'm going to put out just regular doe urine and i'm going to try a fawn distress call.

RE: early season calling
 

I use a soft contact call (grunt) about every half hour while in stand during the first couple weeks of the season. Does it work? I really don't know, but I do regularly see more deer than my counterparts do in the same woodlots.

I am a long time largemouth bass fisherman, and if I want to catch the fish I have to use a lure. It just seems pointless to sit in the woods and wait for deer to come to you.

RE: early season calling
 

Question (related), rather than an answer: I've always heard that bucks are already in Rut, starting September (I've even heard earlier), and they're just waiting for the does to "come around". If that's so, wouldn't a buck go nuts if he smelled estrous doe pee and track in down, if he smelled it before any of the does in the area were in estrous?