How do you lure or call doe to your stand or get them to come toward you when you see them in the distance? How do you interest them to want to come your way? I see doe but the are walking across a field and I can't get them to move in my direction. I've tried a estrus bleat, grunting and rattling. Rattling sent them off with flags. They were uninterested in everything else. There is virtually no hunting pressure on them so I guess they feel safe walking across an open field. I don't believe in baiting. I will use scents but not food to lure deer. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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I started using my deer target that I shoot my bow at. It sounds funny but if you put a little doe urine around it, I've brought 'em in.

Paul Ruhe J.R.

Move the stand to where they enter or exit the field.

Rack has it right. You have to bring the hunt to them.

As you found out doe eustrous and rattling makes the does run the otherway. They don't want some maurading buck chasing them. If a doe smells another doe that is in her cycle she wil stay out of the area to avoid harassment by a buck. FYI

Dan Blair

If scent is what your looking for , just try using regular doe urine, it may give off a feeling of comfort to them, this is all if you can not move to where they are traveling, as suggested above, also a deer decoy(doe) may help you, a buck grunt, High Pitched has worked for me, not the low tending type grunt sound, that will send them away unless they are actually ready to breed, but the higher pitched grunt, like a deer just trying to vocalize with them may provide the comfort they need to come and look.

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Doe are harder to lure in and call in than are bucks by far. Most doe are shot because they happen by, unlike bucks which I almost always call in.

You want to use a contact call. It's similiar to a estrous bleat that rises and falls in pitch....the contact call says', I'm alone, please come to me...I've successfully called in doe using the contact call but it's not full proof. Many times does do become alert and usually move off, especially if you use it to much. A couple soft calls can and will turn the deer if they wish to come.

Hopefully someone has a link to whitetail vocalizations...

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