I've spent a lot of time in the woods and try to learn something new every time I go out but it's just as easy to learn from others and there experiences . Not really looking for the brand of call but just which call . I've managed to use them all (rattle bag , grunt , snort wheeze , roar) to kill a mature buck and they all have there time and place but the roar has to be my all time favorite . I have decided that it is nothing more than an overly excited grunt that is extremely loud and is most commonly heard as the bucks start getting excited about the impending rut . I usually only hear bucks roar as they are headed to scent check a doe so in my part of the country I'll be roaring from the end of Oct. till season ends but I have heard it used at other time also . My favorite part of the roar is how loud you can get away with playing it as it will be heard a long ways away without disturbing anything closer that you haven't seen .
I have a roar call and I like it, but it's usefulness is limited due to time of season. My favorite call is Primos can call doe bleat. It works all season long, on does and bucks. Only complaint is to my knowledge, I've never had a mature shooter buck respond.
The can call is my favorite. Works for me mainly after mid oct. Its the only call I make sure I have all the time. If I forget one of the others, oh well.
I like the can but my favorite would have to be the good old fashioned grunt tube. Never seems to fail me.
for where I hunt, the can has worked the best. I have a MAD grunt/roar call that I like a lot, and it worked last season nicely. I haven't had the balls/situation yet to snort wheeze...but will be ready with it this year.
The snort wheeze can sure bring a hung up buck the rest of the way . I wouldn't be afraid to start throwing out there as it is a natural sound in the woods so you cant hurt anything with it . Haven't used a can in a few years as they never seemed to work for me but after listening to a doe that was looking for a buck last year , I'm ready to give it another try .
Sounds like the buck roar has some good results. Anyone wanna share their experiences in the field? I've used a bleat and grunt combo successfully in the past. Rattling however hasn't helped me before.
I've had complete hit and miss success with calling. I rattle and grunt during the rut but I've only called in a few bucks successfully. I think the key is timing, meaning you call at just the right time to either make a dominate buck think there is competition around by rattling or grunting or to pull him off a doe he is chasing that might not be in heat yet by bleating.
Last year was the first year I seriously gave that call a try . I had played with it in the past but decided the year before that I thought I finally understood when and how to use it . I started using it around Oct. 20th when I started noticing a few doe starting to come in and in the beginning only called to bucks that I could see so I could gage their reaction . I ended up calling in 8 bucks over the next couple of weeks . I did notice that it's affect on buck seemed to fade as the rut really kicked in but you can't blame them for ignoring calls while on hot trails .
My go to call is a grunt call and if I have a buck in sight and he gets hung up ill throw a snort weeze at em
I use the knight and hale death chamber awsome call, coule years ago i snort weezed and a buck walked out in less then a minute the can is all rught just never really does its justice for me how often do u all bleat with the can
With the Can, it depends on time of day, or if I'm seeing a lot of deer, how windy it is, etc. If I'm seeing deer but no bucks, I'll give it a shot every 20-30 minutes or so. But only after say an hour after daylight (I like to give the deer a chance to cruise naturally and quietly in the AM.) I'll use it to try to coax in a deer who's hanging around just out of good sight to confirm if it's a shooter or not (sure you all know what I mean...) I'll use it just before dark if I can hear a deer but can't quite see it. I usually don't like to use it in windy conditions, because the sound just doesn't travel well and the sound direction can get all thrown off. It's my go-to call on a deer that gets spooked and runs off and stops (as long as they can't see me.) Even if they don't come back, it seems to calm them down a bit. Couple of years ago I shot a buck with my rifle that was about 10 minutes behind a red-hot doe. He came jogging in pretty fast, nose to the dirt just like a hound dog. I flipped the Can and he came to a dead stop and turned around, thinking she had doubled back. He took about 10 steps back towards me slowly, allowing me to drill him at about 50-60 yards. Had he not doubled back I would not have gotten the shot off; I won't shoot at a running deer in the woods ("killed" about 3-4 trees before I learned that lesson. Better to let them run off and hope they come back.)
