![]() ![]() Over the years, I have made a point of experimenting with various calls when deer were in sight to see how they would react. Don’t expect to have deer come running in every time you blow one. Modern deer calls are best viewed as simply a tool, not a magic wand. Unfortunately, the French provided no details on these early deer calls, so we don’t know exactly what they were or how they worked. In the winter, they reportedly made noises to attract rutting bucks and in the spring a bleating fawn to attract does. Three hundred years ago, French explorers wrote of Indians using different calls at different times of the year. “Wow,” I thought, “this thing really works!”Īs it turns out, deer calls are not a modern invention. That quick encounter convinced me the previous kill was not a fluke because I saw this buck actually looking for me. When I saw a glint of antlers, I raised my rifle and dropped what turned out to be a nice 6-point. One had its head held high and was looking around rather frantically trying to locate the source of the grunt. ![]() ![]() Slowly peeping around the tree, I saw several deer just standing there about 30 yards away. A couple of minutes later, what sounded like a herd of horses came splashing across the slough behind me. Later that season, while sitting against a tree next to a slough, I pulled out my call and grunted three times. It took about three seasons playing around with the thing before I managed to attract and kill a small buck, but even then I wasn’t totally convinced the grunt call was particularly effective. To be honest, I had never even heard a buck grunt in the woods.īut I decided “what the heck?” and bought one more out of curiosity than anything. When Haydel’s Game Calls came out with the first tube grunt call back in the 1980s, I thought it was the fad of the day and would soon disappear from the market. One of those rare essential items is a deer call. So, truth be told, there are few deer hunting products that I feel I cannot leave home without. I learned a long time ago that if you stay downwind and keep still, a deer doesn’t really care what you wear or where you sit. ![]()
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