Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Deer hunting,....who grunts, rattles, bleats or just stays quiet?

For myself, I tend to go the quiet route.

When I do try to rattle or grunt deer in, it seems I chase them over to the next county.


What works for you?

I try the quiet act but at my age grunts, rattles, and bleats just seem to emit from my body.

I've rattled and grunted in deer successfully, but usually go the quiet route. There's just something about making a bunch of racket while hunting that goes against all I've been taught about hunting.

I snore, it seems to help, they get curious to see what's making the strange noises..........

Kind of depends on what I had to eat the night before. Burritos are always a bad choice.

During regular season, I don't find much use in grunting, rattling, etc. I have used a Can Bleat a couple of times...that seems to help out a bit, but only in small amounts.

Most of my deer hunting these days is stalking silently along a trail, deep in a swamp or hard wood hammock. I try to not make any noise at all.

I do carry a grunt call, and If I see a deer off the trail a bit, I'll use the call to get the critter to stand still so I can kill it.

I just fart at regular intervals. Seems to work on both hogs and deer..........

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I hunt quietly, but have been known to Naaaah like a goat to get an animal stop and look.

Mostly all I do is still hunting. There's one place I've done some spot and stalk. The answer is then I go the "stay quiet" route.

I played with grunts a little a couple years ago after I'd tagged out just to see how it went. I scared off a number of deer and attracted none.

I haven't tried rattling yet. I tagged out saturday so this would be a good year to experiment, nothing to lose now.

Tom

I usually go the quiet route. But, there have been a few times where I've heard a bleat or a grunt back in the woods. When that happens the pan has been primed and a little noise back and forth sometimes brings an animal into view, sometimes very cautiously, sometimes charging in ready to kicks some butt.

Most of the time I go the quiet route but I do like to rattle a few times a half hour before I get out of the stand in morning. How aggressive or playful the rattling is depends on how close to the rut we are.

I have killed more buck rattling than i have being quiet. Very seldom hunt in Nov. or Late Oct without rattling and grunting. It works about 50% of the time.

Since getting mature i do a lot of 'buck snorts', especially after pinto beans.

Several years ago you could stop a walking buck with a grunt call every time, but I guess there is enough random grunters in the woods now that they pay no attention to it. I have had them act like they don't even hear it even though I know it is loud enough that they did. I know people that grunt at intervals all the time they are on a stand and they kill some deer. I don't know if it is because of it, or in spite of it. miles

Shot my first deer that I called in, an 8pt WT that ran to me w/another buck opening weekend! Must have been before the rut, but used it many times w/good success. DG-87 below:

http://www.haydels.com/pages/deercalls.html

I've used a grunt to stop a moving deer for the shot, and I once used it to call back a forkhorn that I shot at with a ML and missed. He wasn't too bright, but was tasty.

The only thing I called in was another hunter stalking me. I was rattling and grunting and I heard a grunt off in the distance working it's way towards me. Every so often it would stop and start raking the trees, snapping branches, and kicking up leaves. My heart about burst through my chest, just as the sound was about to come through the brush I saw a the face of the hunter. He came through the brush saw me, waved and then turned around. a$$hole had no orange on, a set of deer antlers in his hand, and was on private property. I think he had a death wish

I am quiet except that I will do a short quiet bleat (with just my mouth/no call) to stop a deer for the shot and only if nessesary.