I had my best "called him in" experience last year. I was hunting during the peak rut and I saw a decent rack chasing a doe out in the timber about 150 yards away. He was really dogging the doe so I couldn't get much of a look at him, but again , he had a decent rack. So I pulled out the grunt and simulated a tending grunt sequence with a few doe in heat calls and he came in on an absolute string! He left the doe immediatley and came right for my ground blind, which he circled twice three steps away before taking off again. I then flipped the can a couple more times a few minutes later and back he came circling the blind again within spitting distance and again he circled it twice before another yearling buck came up the ridge behind me. The rut juiced buck turned out to only be a 5 point yearling, but he was IMPRESSIVE, likely a 16 inch spread and we nicknamed him Vegas (spread). He'll surely be a monster here in two three years given he lives that long, but it was definitely the most fun hunt I've ever had and I didnt even consider shooting.
The biggest buck I have shot was paralleling the woods I was in and going past me. I hit him with a couple of Can bleats and he stopped in his tracks. After a few minutes he turned 90 degrees and came into the woods. Minutes after that he was couging blood on his death run.
The can hasn't worked well for me either, but I think I know why. Last year I had some does and fawns about 100yds away and as soon as I tipped the can over they ran away. I've been told the long bleat is an estrous bleat and they probably did not want to be anywhere near an estrous doe (with buck nearby). What I should have done is a short doe/fawn bleat as a contact call.
Grunt call does work very well. Most of the times when calling you need to be in a good spot to call. What I mean by that is if a deer can see the area you are call from 200 yards away it is very hard to call one to you. If the deer cannot see and has to come over to see if another buck is there it is much easer to call a buck in to your set up.
