Arizonabowhunter Report post Posted October 14, 2004 Hey Fellow hunters, just need a piece of advice. I am going hunting in Pikes County in Illinois in mid November and my guide wants me to purchase a grunt tube. I will be hunting in the rut and want to know if anybody has hunted back east and used a grunt tube. What call will be most suitable for me to use during this time???? Thanks for any info. Arizonabowhunter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted October 14, 2004 the most suitable time will be on the plane trip back there. whenever you want a coke, grunt that tube. i guarantee it will work. remember Jim Varney? better known as Ernest. he did a deal on buckmasters about a grunt call that was one o' the funniest things i've ever seen. laughed til i cried. good luck on the hunt, but i ain't got a clue about grunt calls. i know i see em use em on them whitetail shows all the time and the deer doesn't even pay any attention to it. all they care about is the cornflinger. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coues addict Report post Posted October 15, 2004 Arizonabowhunter I have a couple of H.S. scents video`s and they all use the true talker grunt call! seems like those bucks just come right in! I really don`t know though! I think there all about the same and it just depends on the situation and the deer. I have also heard the primos calls are pretty good. Good luck back east and keep us posted please! Coues Addict Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
m77 Report post Posted October 15, 2004 Hi ArizonaBowHunter, I hunted Wisconsin whitetail with my dad since I was 10. Blatting was always my choice. I would setup with the wind in my face from a heavy vegetated bedding area. Place a small amount of doe-in-heat on a white cloth about 30 inches off the ground. Sit back in a windfall tree and make a low gutteral blat with my throat (BAAAAAAAAAA). Once or twice in a row and then wait a half hour. If a bucks hot he'll come. Took my first muzzleloader 8 pointer that way when I was 18. He stuck his nose right on that cloth. 15 yards with a 50 cal thompson I made from a kit. My cousin Joe took one of the biggest buck from that area same way a year later. We hunted a large cedar swamp in the Kewaunee Wisconsin area. An old timer I use to shot archery with taught me the blatting sound. Never bothered to buy a call since. I gotta admit that I have messed up trying that a few times. If your throats to wet you get a sweaking sound and no deer. Best way to practice is to dring a little coke first, then try making the sound. I think the calls are all about the same also. I believe the clincher is adding the doe-in-heat. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arizonabowhunter Report post Posted October 15, 2004 Couesaddict and M-77, thanks for your response, I will keep that advice in mind and see if I can use both those tactics when the time is right. I have a Wayne Carlton grunt tube and have had succes with this in the past. Called in a coues buck in 1999 he traveled over 100 yards before I havested him at 35 yards, head on shot, just at the base of the neck is where the arrow entered. I know this shot for eastern whitetail will be unethical because of the size difference, I will pick more ethical shots for these big bruisers. Just was curious if this call will work on eastern whitetails, you guys back east give me some pointers. Thanks for any info. Arizonabowhunter Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted October 18, 2004 ethics? what's that? ya killed him didn't ya? personally, i like a straight on shot, with a bow or rifle. as long as the range is reasonable. hit the hollow spot where the windpipe goes into the ribs. arrow disappears inside em. with a rifle, it doesn't matter. ethics are just opinions. whatever works, works. the only unethical shot would be an on purpose gut shot. and nobody is gonna do that. and what is "blaating"? all this talk about gruntin' and blaatin' sounds like the last time we had chili durin' quail season. one thing that intrigues me about grunt calls, is in all the whitetail shows on tv, it never shows a buck grunting. i've never seen one where it has an actual buck recorded grunting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Arizonabowhunter Report post Posted October 21, 2004 270 last year while hunting in unit 33 August hunt, I had just got out of my truck and crossed a bob wire fence, it was jus starting to get light I walked up a wash and then I heard something running up to me. I was bewildered a 2x2 mule deer stood about 20 yards at me and grunted really softly at me. Obviously he did not smell me and probably only heard me, but he stood there for 20 seconds BROADSIDE. I contemplated wheter or not to shoot it was the firs day and he was just a 2 point so I decided not too. That is the fourth time I have heard deer grunt and the first time for mule deer. So they do grunt! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
.270 Report post Posted October 21, 2004 i know they must do it sometime, or they wouldn't make the calls. but you'd think as much as them eastern cornflinger hunters use em, that they'd get one to grunt back on occasion on film. i've heard muleys blow and sorta whistle, and i've heard does and fawns bleat, but never heard a grunt. i just think that the way they use the grunt calls on the shows is about a phoney as heck. a buck starts coming to the corn, they blow their grunt call, the buck pays no attention and keeps going to the corn, but they got their grunt call commercial in. just a peeve with me. one o' many. Lark. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
