Please list ways you know of to attract does (both during the rut and not during the rut) other than setting up over food sources. I've heard of the can call during the rut is a good way and a distressed fawn bleat during early season.
Binoculars and Boots !! Scout the property...Find some doe bedding areas. Find trails TO food sources, ag fields, watering holes. Hang stand. Kill doe, or, wait for buck chasing doe and kill him. Just my 0.2cents..
Your missing the intent of my post (question). Other than finding does....... what can you do to attract them? i.e., calls, scents, decoy's, whatever. What tactics can you use to successfully INCREASE your chance other than finding trails and food? Also, anything that can be done to bring a doe out of range to within range.
Looks to me there isn't a lot that can be done based on the responses. Everyone talks about how to attract bucks but what about attracting does?
I mentioned that in my initial post as something I have heard as well. You don't by any chance have a link to the video Obviously, it is a little late for that now but good info for next year. I read in Wisconsin Outdoor News that a can call during the rut works. Anyone have any experience with this?
I seen Rob use the can to calm and bring in the 7 point and an 8 point ..I have never seen it work until then .. I searched for that distress video and cannot find it
The top three ways I have been successful in attracting ANY deer. #3 - Fall asleep in the stand. #2 - Start moving around, and not pay attention. and... #1 - Drink a lot of coffee/water on the way to the property, and get nature to call about 10 minutes before the sun peaks! (*These also work for Waterfowl, Turkey, and pretty much anything where you don't want them to.)
What kind of call creates a doe-in-distress sound? Being in a EAB zone it could really come in handy for me.
I have had alot of sucess calling does. I use the flex tone and before that the true talker, you can change the sound from buck to young buck to doe to fawn. I usually push down between the doe and the fawn and make a sound kind of like what a can call would make, and it seems to work more often than you think. I also have used an electonic fawn in distress call and that will almost always get something to come in, but they're usually more spooky with that call.
I have heard a doe decoy works really well, I have yet to try one though. Does are way more curious that bucks when it comes to them and they will come from a long ways away to check them out, again, so I have heard.
If you watched my video with Hunsucker (prob. on page 2 or 3 by now...), I had a doe that was off-camera that had been wanting to come in for over five minutes to investigate what had happened to her earlier (I had missed her). I pulled out my grunt tube and gave some fawn bleats followed by a couple doe bleats and it sealed the deal; she quickly came in to gimme range.
