| There are some who believed that deer could be | | | | from this ridge was the daytime bedding ground for |
| called with some noise. And some even use what | | | | these same deer. I traveled this trail for about two |
| they called deer calls found in the market. But the | | | | miles at a time when the deer were moving from |
| use of these things I think can take away the fun of | | | | the bedding grounds to the feeding area, and in this |
| the sport and you will not enjoy the hunting | | | | distance I was challenged no less than eight times by |
| anymore. | | | | bucks which wanted to cross the trail. None of their |
| I have never used any of the deer calls that are on | | | | calls were answered by other bucks even though |
| the market. I have been quite successful in bagging | | | | there must have been dozens of them within hearing |
| my deer without the aid of such a call and I would | | | | distance. If this sound is a call to combat, this |
| have to be convinced of their effectiveness before I | | | | experience should have provided some evidence of |
| would buy one. Perhaps I have been missing an aid to | | | | the fact. I heard no calls made by any deer other |
| hunting enjoyment by not trying them. I know that | | | | than the ones which were alarmed by my presence. |
| most animals can be attracted by some sort of a | | | | Many people think that when two bucks fight, the |
| noise, and the fact that I have never called a deer is | | | | fight is over the possession of one particular doe. My |
| not proof that they cannot be called. I know that the | | | | observations show that this is not the rule. On one |
| cry of a fawn will call a doe during the summer | | | | occasion I saw two bucks fighting and there was a |
| months, yet I have never heard this call in the | | | | doe present as an apparently disinterested spectator. |
| hunting season. The fawns are large enough to be on | | | | At the scene of a few other encounters, I have |
| their own at this time and the doe has other things | | | | seen tracks that showed that there might have been |
| on her mind, I have halted running deer by imitating | | | | a doe present, but most of the fights which I have |
| the cry of a fawn, but I have also stopped them by | | | | checked seem to have been the result of casual |
| making other sounds. I have found that if a deer | | | | meetings and were fought without spectators. The |
| hears any sound that it cannot immediately locate | | | | rut is the cause of the fighting, but the object seems |
| and identify, it will stop and make sure that it is not | | | | to be the driving of the weaker male out of an area |
| heading into danger. | | | | rather than a desire for any one female. |
| I have never heard an uninjured deer make any vocal | | | | I have never used any of the commercial scents to |
| sound during the hunting season except the sound | | | | attract deer, but any scent that is based on sexual |
| made by startled deer. This sound (more nasal than | | | | attraction should be effective if properly prepared |
| vocal) seems to be more of a warning to other deer | | | | and used. The use of deodorizers to remove or |
| than a challenge to combat. Perhaps I am wrong in | | | | disguise the man scent can do no harm, unless the |
| thinking this way, but until I hear another deer | | | | substance used is something that is repulsive to deer. |
| answer, and accept this call as a challenge, I will | | | | In this article we've learned that some bucks do not |
| continue to believe as I do at the present time. | | | | always respond to the call of the other to challenge. |
| One evening I was traveling a trail that was located | | | | But it is better to be safe by being known what kind |
| near the foot of a beech ridge that was the feeding | | | | of sounds do the deer makes and for what. |
| ground of at least a hundred deer. Across the trail | | | | |