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!!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?