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 ...

To evade predators and establish a social hierarchy for procreation, whitetail deer rely not only on scent, sight and body posturing, but also on an amazing assortment of vocal sounds. There are ...

A couple years earlier no one could have convinced me that it would work. Deer calling, that is. But here I was in a sturdy tree stand where an 8-point buck had responded to the guttural “grunt” I’d ...

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 ...

Nate Daniels was sitting in an oak tree on Oct. 31 when he shot the buck with a crossbow from just two yards away.

Getting a buck this week could be as simple as a grunt. The 6-pointer I watched last Monday in Pike County not only grunted as he pursued four does over a grassy slope, but his attentions were surely ...

Gregory Drummond, of Brewerton, got his first buck, a 150-pound (dressed) 8-pointer, while hunting with his grandpa in ...

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 ...

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