Travis299
Six Pointer
Need advice on using a grunt call. Is it effective and when do you use one. I appreciate suggestions & thanks.
FWIW I quit blind calling all together about 3 years ago and my success went way up. Especially in NC...where deer get hunted hard you will scare off more deer than you bring in. I only call at a specific deer once I spot him, determine he is either one I want to shoot or I want a better look, and he is not coming my way already. I call less and less each year now...but the flipside of that is that when I do call, I have more success.
^^^I shoulda edited my response to say......
I only blind call in big country where I know with about 99% certainty that I'm the only idiot in the woods with a grunt call...
Middle of Pisgah Natl Forest? Yes.
300 yards off the road somewhere like Jordan Lake? No thank you.
To that point... got one spot in mountains... Killed a big slick 6 up there this year...
Grunting works so good in that spot that we call the underside of the mountain "Power Alley"...
Blow that grunt tube and your gun, cause something's gonna come up that draw...
Sometimes it's a spike, and sometimes it's a stud......
Really gets you pumped up too... If the wind ain't blowing hard, you can hear them stomping up the holler from a long way off trying to get to your wind...Chop chop chop chop getting louder and louder, and you know it's a buck by the deliberate way they stomp into the call....
But, the only way they can cross your wind up there brings them out in your face broadside at 50 yards every time... Really cool place. Classic transition zone on a small saddle...
(Which I feel like is the most appropriate place to call in cruising bucks, but that may be because 90% of my *spots* in the mountains are transitions)
,,,,,,,,, 3 came in to me (2 of which I missed), ,,,.
guess your off season was spent working on either your marksmanship or your shot selection decisions?,,,,,
Usualy the last week of October thru November works great. Grunt every 15 min. blind or a tending if you spot one then sit still and wait. Good luck.