I had a small yearling doe come in 2 nights ago and the entire time she was moving around in front of me she did a continual grunt. It was not a bleat but a throaty grunt. I am pretty sure she is the yearling to the big doe I shot a week earlier in the same area. I have never heard a doe grunt like she did. She was right under me and I looked at her head for nubs to see if she was a young buck but I did not see any. Is this usual?

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Yup, I' ve heard them too. Also when yearlings were present.

Last year I heard this deep grunt while on stand.I could see a deer but couldn' t make out how big " he" was.Then 2 little ones came out and when they started to move in my direction-I saw that " he" was a she.She kept on grunting.First time I ever heard doe grunts.

Fawn deer will " grunt" alot - or maybe " quietly bleat" is a better term when trying to keep contact with each other or their mother. They sometimes continually bleat if lost.

Maybe thats what you heard?

I had 11 deer in my yard to evenings ago--all does. One kept grunting at the fawns running around her. She sounded pretty much like the bucks I' ve heard doing it.

That' s a misconception a lot of deer hunters have.....that only bucks grunt. Does will grunt and bucks will blow......just not that often.

Two yrs. ago, around ten a.m. I heard the loudest buck grunt I' ve ever heard. It was so loud that it actually sounded like a phoney call or something. It had a hollow sound like that of a large grunt tube fully extended. Thinking that it was another hunter over-eagerly blowing his/her call, I stared in that direction and continued to hear it. Then he emerged. It was the largest buck I' d ever seen in my bowhunting career!!! And he was in full rut and 50 yds away!!! Anyway, he never came close enough for a clear shot, but I was amazed how his grunt bellowed out through the woods. It was awesome.