The dominant buck grunt is very similar to that of an adult doe or yearling buck, but with one very distinct difference: it’s much deeper. If you happen to hunt in an area that has a good adult buck ...

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 ...

As an obsessed spring gobbler hunter knows short of filling a tag the most satisfaction comes from having a prolonged dialog with a throaty bird doing its best to attract that hen who has got his ...

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 ...

Few things get a bow hunter's blood pumping like the sound of a feisty buck grunting, trashing, and antler-raking saplings, crashing branches, pawing up leaves like a bull, chasing does and ...

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