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tineseeker
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Muddy's point on mooing to calm deer when walking into a stand in the early morning may sound a little far fetched but I have found that different noises can take a deer off alert.
Four years ago when I shot my first bow buck ( The Phesant Cack Buck) I was hunting over a large switch grass field in the morning. I was suppose to meet some of my friends and hunt that same field for pheasants at 8
o. Not a lot of time to deer hunt but I thought it would be worth a try. The weekend before I saw a decent buck from that stand and I counted over 50 roosters feeding out in the cornfield from my stand before legal shooting time.
At about seven a doe and buck came into the small strip of trees in which I had my stand. They came in from the south, I was counting on them coming in from the east corn field the wind was blowing from the north east. Needless to say the buck got on the trail on the down wind side of me and started to come my way. About thirty yard from me he caught my scent and stopped cold in his tracks. I didn't have a shot. The buck turned and walked back south about 20 yards and laid down by a big cottonwood tree. The buck on full alert just laid there and looked around. Time started ticking away .
At about 7:40 thirty minutes latter I was starting to get pretty frustrated . The pheasants had all ready moved back into the switch grass. And shortly after 8 I knew my buddies would come looking for me.
I had brought along my pheasant call with me and figured I didn't have any thing to loose if I could get a shot at the deer maybe I could get the pheasants to move to my spot and I could get a good shot at a pheasant with my bow. I started cacking with my call . It got the bucks attention but he did not seem overly alarmed , in fact after about ten calls he stood up and started to brows around the tree 10 min latter around 8:55 he presented me with a perfect quartering away shot at 35 yards.
To me it looked like the arrow went low but the buck went crashing though the trees about 10 yard and disappeared with a crash. I couldn't figure out where he went and I couldn't see any thing trough my binoculars. I decided to climb down after 5 min. As soon as my food hit the ground I heard a deer take of running, my heart sank, but then I got a glimpse of the deer, a doe. The doe he had come in with I had totally forgot about her.
After walking to where I had seen the deer last I discovered why he had disappeared. After running ten yard he try to jump a narrow seep wash but hit a tree on the other side and fell into the wash and died. I don't think my buddies figured they'd be dragging out a deer that morning.
Last year after my brother and I had bagged both or bucks we went to the same area to fill our doe tags. I was the camera man. No does came thought but a 130-140 class buck walked right under my brothers tree. I stopped him three times with my pheasant cack call.
When I hunt down south this year I plan on carrying a turkey call with me every time I go into the woods. I hope to trick one of the hawk eyed turkeys, but there is no doubt in my mind that the turkey calls will more than likely put the deer at ease also.
Four years ago when I shot my first bow buck ( The Phesant Cack Buck) I was hunting over a large switch grass field in the morning. I was suppose to meet some of my friends and hunt that same field for pheasants at 8
o. Not a lot of time to deer hunt but I thought it would be worth a try. The weekend before I saw a decent buck from that stand and I counted over 50 roosters feeding out in the cornfield from my stand before legal shooting time. At about seven a doe and buck came into the small strip of trees in which I had my stand. They came in from the south, I was counting on them coming in from the east corn field the wind was blowing from the north east. Needless to say the buck got on the trail on the down wind side of me and started to come my way. About thirty yard from me he caught my scent and stopped cold in his tracks. I didn't have a shot. The buck turned and walked back south about 20 yards and laid down by a big cottonwood tree. The buck on full alert just laid there and looked around. Time started ticking away .
At about 7:40 thirty minutes latter I was starting to get pretty frustrated . The pheasants had all ready moved back into the switch grass. And shortly after 8 I knew my buddies would come looking for me.
I had brought along my pheasant call with me and figured I didn't have any thing to loose if I could get a shot at the deer maybe I could get the pheasants to move to my spot and I could get a good shot at a pheasant with my bow. I started cacking with my call . It got the bucks attention but he did not seem overly alarmed , in fact after about ten calls he stood up and started to brows around the tree 10 min latter around 8:55 he presented me with a perfect quartering away shot at 35 yards.
To me it looked like the arrow went low but the buck went crashing though the trees about 10 yard and disappeared with a crash. I couldn't figure out where he went and I couldn't see any thing trough my binoculars. I decided to climb down after 5 min. As soon as my food hit the ground I heard a deer take of running, my heart sank, but then I got a glimpse of the deer, a doe. The doe he had come in with I had totally forgot about her.
After walking to where I had seen the deer last I discovered why he had disappeared. After running ten yard he try to jump a narrow seep wash but hit a tree on the other side and fell into the wash and died. I don't think my buddies figured they'd be dragging out a deer that morning.
Last year after my brother and I had bagged both or bucks we went to the same area to fill our doe tags. I was the camera man. No does came thought but a 130-140 class buck walked right under my brothers tree. I stopped him three times with my pheasant cack call.
When I hunt down south this year I plan on carrying a turkey call with me every time I go into the woods. I hope to trick one of the hawk eyed turkeys, but there is no doubt in my mind that the turkey calls will more than likely put the deer at ease also.