This is going to be more a funny and partly a sad story than a review but the review is in there. In Oklahoma e-calls are legal for deer as of last year I think but they're not for turkeys. Anyway I bought one last year to use for coyote hunting and enjoyed limited success but it was no fault of the caller. I got lazy and didn't go out much last winter and then the 2 young girls (you probly heard a lot about) got killed right on a road that runs through the middle of my deer lease. Needless to say that dampened my hunting spirits for a while. It is still unsolved and the family has moved from our area and deer season opened so I'm back at it again. It's still kinda weird though, I have a stand about 200 yds. from where the incident happened. There has been some talk but I don't think law enforcement has a good clue as to who did this heinous crime! Anyway, back to my tale. I bought all three of the deer call sound plug-ins and they do sound pretty good. The full-on rattling sequence is a little tinny, I'm thinkin maybe an amplifier might be needed for the rattling, it's fairly loud but needs a little more power! OOH!OOH!OOH! in my estimation but I've only used it one day so far and deer movement was dead. I'm talking about the past Saturday Nov, 1rst. When using the varmint plug-ins you just press a button and it plays until you hit the stop button. The remote handles all 3 sound plug-ins with 4 sounds on each one. No. 1 has a setting called Immature buck/doe grunt, a mature grunt, a snort wheeze, and an estrous doe button. All these sound pretty good to my ears as you will soon see. On Deer calls No. 1 each button will work one at a time. But here is where it gets weird. You have to hold the button down for it to work. I found that if you hit the button for the sound you want and then let up and hit it again it works pretty well. There is a small delay, you hold the button down for a couple of seconds and then let up and you will get the sound you want. You will have to play with it to get the timing down. However if you don't then press the stop button the sound will continue to cycle but will be in a greatly diminished level of sound. As I was calling using the estrous bleat and grunts I would call for a few seconds and then just hold the remote in my hand for a while to call some more. Are you ahead of me yet? Yeah, you guessed it, I started having a "deer conversation" with myself! LOL! While holding the remote in my hand but not having pushed the stop button after doing a call sequence I would hear a soft grunt or bleat about 15 seconds after my calling sequence. Are you ROTFLYAO yet? The call would cycle and I would hear "the deer" and then wait a few seconds and call again because he was not coming any closer! I'm sorry to say I did this for most of the morning. I started to finally press the stop button after my sequences because I wanted to put the remote down so I would have my hands free to take a deer if he finally showed up. At this point I thought my "buck" had left. So, what I'm saying is if you don't press the stop button you will start to hear a soft grunt or bleat about 15 seconds after pressing one of the call buttons. So you hit the button, hear a grunt in about 15 seconds, another in 5, then silence for 15 seconds, it keeps this up until you hit stop or the batteries run down. (The unit holds 4 AA batteries and the remote takes one 9 v., they last a pretty good while). I can see where this might work pretty well if you have a buck coming to the call. Hands free with a bleat or grunt coming from a location away from your tree. These calls are stated to work with the remote 100 yds away from the unit as long as you have a line of sight. between units. It still works a pretty good ways off without the line of sight. Of course bowhunters just need to focus his attention away from us and towards the ground. The other two plug-ins are labeled Deer rut and Deer pre-rut. I can't remember the exact calls on each but they work a little different. You press a button, say for rattling and it works like the varm
