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deerbarber
Guest
I use the new MAD calls combo with the grunt tube included. It sounds good ....I just wish it wasnt clear plastic. Green or brown would stick out less in the trees.
Willie
PMA Member
I bought the MAD combo call and to me it sounds pretty realistic. Imagine the air being let out of a tire - kinda sounds like that.
I must admit though the first time I used it was last night on a 160ish buck that hung up on me at 50-60 yards. He didn't like what he heard and bound over the ridge - I almost cried. I told myself though if I got to see him it would definitely be one of the best hunts I've had. I passed up two 130 class deer earlier in hopes of seeing him. What a rush! The ticker hasn't beat that hard in a while!!!
I must admit though the first time I used it was last night on a 160ish buck that hung up on me at 50-60 yards. He didn't like what he heard and bound over the ridge - I almost cried. I told myself though if I got to see him it would definitely be one of the best hunts I've had. I passed up two 130 class deer earlier in hopes of seeing him. What a rush! The ticker hasn't beat that hard in a while!!!
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wisco kid
Guest
I just do the call myself. A hunting guru taught it to me about 5 years ago. I'd never used it until two years ago, when I heard a deer make the sound for the first time. He was a dominant buck and had just got done kicking the heck out of another buck that had wandered into his territory. It was a very quiet night when about 100 yards away, I heard two bucks square off in an all-out knockdown dragout fight. All I heard was the two sets of antlers crashing against each other with rage and fury. After about 20-30 seconds, I got down from my tree and started a rapid, yet silent as possible stalk through the brush. I got to about 40 yards away and was just about able to see what was going on when one buck gained the upper hand in the fight and chased off the other. The loser crashed through the brush no more than 30 yards from me, but I never got a good look. The winner stood about 30 yards away, doing the snort-wheeze a few times, before he headed off. I never saw him, but a few hours later, I shined him in the field. He was the same buck I'd been seeing all season.
To make the sound, you take two very short, quick inhales, then one long, loud, airy exhale. kind of like:
sip-sip (slight pause)WHOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!
Keep in mind its a sound a buck uses to intimidate others and is a sound of aggression, so its likely to chase away less dominant bucks.
To make the sound, you take two very short, quick inhales, then one long, loud, airy exhale. kind of like:
sip-sip (slight pause)WHOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH!
Keep in mind its a sound a buck uses to intimidate others and is a sound of aggression, so its likely to chase away less dominant bucks.
203ntyp
PMA Member
I also have the Madd snort wheeze call but do just as well with my mouth. I witnessed a couple of buck doing it previously & it's not hard to imitate. In fact I did it a couple of days ago in Illinois & this is what happened.
It was around 2:30 in the afternoon when a 140 class shooter came across a cut corn field at about 65 yards from my location. I began grunting & he stopped & looked for several seconds but decided to keep going so I snort wheezed with my mouth. He stopped, looked my way & then took off like he was shot in the ass. I thought he must have been really afraid of getting whooped on & a 2 seconds later I heard foot steps. As I looke over my left shoulder there was a monster of an 8 point coming out of the timber just 8 yards away. I take it he heard the grunting & was coming to check things out, when I snort wheezed he came in without warning & the other buck thought it was him & he thought it was the other buck. This is the first time I came totally unglued, I tried to get drawn before he slipped away & hit my release as I started to draw. The arrow plinked off the string & dribbled 10 feet from him, he never heard or seen it. Now I panic, nock another arrow as he slipped into an island of trees in front of me & I had no shot. When he stepped out the other side I stopped him with a baa at about 35 yards in the open broadside. Since my brain was mush by this time I never buried the pin & hit him across the top of the back. Needless to say he was not affected by the hit & still breeds as we speak. My buddies saw him about a mile away the next day.
Yes the snort wheeze is a fgreat tool under the right circumstances & would recommend trying it. Just hope you have time to prepare yourself if the big boy comes trotting in unexpectedly.
It was around 2:30 in the afternoon when a 140 class shooter came across a cut corn field at about 65 yards from my location. I began grunting & he stopped & looked for several seconds but decided to keep going so I snort wheezed with my mouth. He stopped, looked my way & then took off like he was shot in the ass. I thought he must have been really afraid of getting whooped on & a 2 seconds later I heard foot steps. As I looke over my left shoulder there was a monster of an 8 point coming out of the timber just 8 yards away. I take it he heard the grunting & was coming to check things out, when I snort wheezed he came in without warning & the other buck thought it was him & he thought it was the other buck. This is the first time I came totally unglued, I tried to get drawn before he slipped away & hit my release as I started to draw. The arrow plinked off the string & dribbled 10 feet from him, he never heard or seen it. Now I panic, nock another arrow as he slipped into an island of trees in front of me & I had no shot. When he stepped out the other side I stopped him with a baa at about 35 yards in the open broadside. Since my brain was mush by this time I never buried the pin & hit him across the top of the back. Needless to say he was not affected by the hit & still breeds as we speak. My buddies saw him about a mile away the next day.
Yes the snort wheeze is a fgreat tool under the right circumstances & would recommend trying it. Just hope you have time to prepare yourself if the big boy comes trotting in unexpectedly.