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Post by titanium700 on Nov 14, 2024 19:51:17 GMT -5
I very very rarely blind call
If I see a deer and it doesn’t look like it’s headed my direction I test him out.
Usually my first call is a can call
Sometimes it’s my grunt
And lastly my rattling racks.
⬆️ the calls depend on how early or how late we are in the season = rut and so on.
Worst thing you can do is call call call and educate your deer.
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Post by subzero350 on Nov 14, 2024 19:53:14 GMT -5
Came home at 4:30 this evening and spotted a very nice 8 point buck laying in the neighbor's yard. I own 7.5 acres flanked by a woods to the east and a wheat field to the west. Buck was laying in the neighbor's woods to the east so I pulled in the garage, closed the door, grabbed my crossbow and snuck out to one of the ground blinds I have set up. At 5:30 I saw a doe come out of the woods some 90 yards in front of me headed towards the wheat field. Then I saw a buck chasing her - about 100 yards from me (no shot). I couldn't see how big he was because of how thick the brush was between us, but I figured it was the one I saw when I came home. I was looking down fumbling with my bag trying to grab my antler rattle when I looked up and saw the big 8-pointer walking out of the woods not 40 yards in front of me - seemingly pursuing the same doe. By the time I got my crossbow up and to the ready, he had walked behind a bush. I hit the rattle and he stopped and looked my way, but no shot (bush in the way). He then proceeded to walk directly away from me - keeping the bush between us, so no shot.  |
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Post by welder on Nov 14, 2024 19:54:16 GMT -5
I very very rarely blind call If I see a deer and it doesn’t look like it’s headed my direction I test him out. Usually my first call is a can call Sometimes it’s my grunt And lastly my rattling racks. ⬆️ the calls depend on how early or how late we are in the season = rut and so on. Worst thing you can do is call call call and educate your deer. Same here. I have recently started carrying calls again, but for about a decade, I left them on the shelf. Honestly, I think at least half of the time, calls hurt more than help. |
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Post by greghopper on Nov 14, 2024 20:21:44 GMT -5
Blind calling and rattling aren't always a good thing to do….sometimes it works most of the time it doesn't IMO
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Post by parkerbow on Nov 14, 2024 21:01:47 GMT -5
Anyone have any rattling and grunting tips? Been doing it A LOT but so far only got the attention of 2 bucks, who hardly cared. Been mixing some doe and fawn bleats in. I use real but rather small rattling antlers from a buck I killed 3 years ago. I suspect we may also need to move one of our stands - big boy hangs out in a corner 80 yards away and has only been seen about 4 times in 2 years but never comes over to the stand while we are in it. There's a little shelf just over the edge of a slight slope before a drop into the big ravine that has a lot of oaks and the deer often either come from that direction or head in that direction. They also follow the property line fence, which takes a turn near the ravine and heads east along the edge of the ravine. The ravine's head is on the other property, but most of it is on the place we hunt. We have also noted that the deer, especially the bigger bucks, mostly hang out on the other property, up on the east ridge, and down in the creek bottoms near the front of the property. I walked out that way checking for deer, since they like to bed on the steep slope, and that's where I about walked into the bedded spike near the edge of the woods. We have no access to any crop fields. Our spot on the Purdue property has a food plot/research plot that is on the edge of it that I might hunt tomorrow. The big issue with that spot is that it is the meeting place for 2 hunting areas, one of which we don't hunt. It is still large enough we can hunt it and shoot deer on it. People also tend to park at the edge of it.... But the deer use it all the time. Other than that, everything we hunt is in the middle of the woods, so it's a lot of a guessing game and there's also not a lot of fence lines, etc to hunt. I've never had any luck doing either, in fact, I heard a grunt on Monday and tried grunting back as a smaller buck. As soon at I hit that grunt tube whatever it was took off through the thick stuff. I never rattle anymore in the 41 yrs i have hunted it has never worked for me, so i quit doing it years ago. I only grunt when i see a buck that is heading away from me and i dont have anything to lose. I never blind grunt. Deer are too pressured where i hunt so i am better off being quiet. |
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Post by coach39 on Nov 14, 2024 21:54:33 GMT -5
I have never called in deer calling blind. Have rattled in a couple bucks but the few times I have they have been probably the smallest buck in the woods. Have had luck calling deer in when I’ve seen them.
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Post by SFC (R) B on Nov 14, 2024 22:21:12 GMT -5
Nothing doing tonight....just a few deer in the cut corn field down the road on the way out. Tomorrow is another day 😉
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