Grunts, bleats and other calls are now considered essential tactics. Making them, however, is not as simple as blowing on a tube. For example, a hunter must know the difference between a “tending ...

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 ...

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 ...

Which deer calls are best? Few things are more exhilarating for a deer hunter than calling a deer closer. Using the right deer call can make all the difference. Deer calls are an important accessory ...

This spike buck was the first of three to respond to a call on opening day. Photo courtesy of Steve Sorensen It was already 7:30 on the opening morning of the New York firearms season when I climbed ...

In mid-December, Benjamin J. Durrett sat in a ground blind overlooking a food plot, surrounded by pine and scrub forest, and blew on a buck grunt call just before dark. "At about 4 p.m., a 10-pointer ...

The first time I heard a buck grunting, I thought one of my farmer friend's pigs had gotten loose in the woods. Nobody was more surprised than me when that dandy 10-point buck crested the ridge ...

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 ...

It’s running a little late this year, and that could be a good thing for hunters venturing out for the Nov. 29 opener of the rifle deer season. The rut. Chris Denmon, president of the North Mountain ...

All Johnathan Fortenberry needed was a change in the weather. He got that and more leading up to his hunt on Jan. 16, when a stiff north wind blew across southern Mississippi, dropping temperatures ...