Grunts, bleats and other calls are now considered essential tactics. Making them, however, is not as simple as blowing on a tube. For example, a hunter must know the difference between a “tending ...

Heading into the woods without a few deer calls isn’t a good plan. Deer use various sounds to communicate with each other from the early part of the season to its end. When you understand the sounds ...

For many hunters, the only deer sound they’ve ever heard is the loud alarm snort deer make when they sense something is amiss. The resulting “blow” alerts deer near and far that there might be an ...

Which deer calls are best? Few things are more exhilarating for a deer hunter than calling a deer closer. Using the right deer call can make all the difference. Deer calls are an important accessory ...

This spike buck was the first of three to respond to a call on opening day. Photo courtesy of Steve Sorensen It was already 7:30 on the opening morning of the New York firearms season when I climbed ...

In mid-December, Benjamin J. Durrett sat in a ground blind overlooking a food plot, surrounded by pine and scrub forest, and blew on a buck grunt call just before dark. "At about 4 p.m., a 10-pointer ...

The first time I heard a buck grunting, I thought one of my farmer friend's pigs had gotten loose in the woods. Nobody was more surprised than me when that dandy 10-point buck crested the ridge ...

At this point in the Illinois archery deer season, hundreds of archers are setting forth to the woods to balance their skills against those of the wily white-tailed deer. The “rut” or breeding season ...

In 30 years of hunting, Ballston Spa deer hunter Jim McHale has had just one buck respond to his grunt calls, so when he tried rattling and grunting during the recently opened Northern Zone deer ...