Best grunt tube

[mmgrode]

Hey Gang,
  I'm looking to get a grunt tube and was curious if you guys had any opinions on what to look for and especially what to stay away from. Thanks for the help! Cheers, Matt

[whitebuffalo]

I love the true talker and the Rod Benson calls,, I stay away from anything I can't just breath on and make it work,, The true talker takes just a bit of breath to get the softest bleat out of it,,Seems more natural to me,,JM2$,Jason B.

[brent d.]

tru-talker

[Plug]

H.S. Tru-Talker, nice, deep guttaral grunts plus I've pinched it down to make a passable bleat that's called in does.

[VTer]

Yes, tru-talker. Keep it under some layers of your clothing or it will freeze up when it's cold as do most of them.

[Shape Shifter]

Knight and Hale and Woodwise also make some great grunt calls as well.

[owlbait]

Tru-Talker. Easy to change the tone and you can get decent volume when you ned it.

[foxbo]

The Tru-talker is just too long for my likes. Plus, I'm not excited by it's tone at all. The best calls I've used are the hands free calls made by Modern Calls. They produce the best tone and most accurate deer sounds of any call I've used. And they carry a life time warranty.

[Dave2old]

The best grunt tube is the one you don't buy, or leave at home. In most cases and most places for most of us, those days are over.

[swp]

Wood-wise for me.

[skeaterbait]

The new Primos Buck Roar has a pretty good sound to it.

[kennym]

Dave2old makes a valid point. With the number of grunts being sold and tooted in the woods,if whitetails are as smart as elk,they'll become just as callshy soon.
 
That said,I pack 2 of em but use sparingly,usually to try to turn a buck I've seen but is goin the wrong direction.......

My alltime fave is a Primos wood suction type grunt,never freezes up.

[GingivitisKahn]

If you had asked before this past weekend, I would have told you how much I like my new Primos Power Buck & Doe call (with adjustable reeds).  The tone is pretty good (at least the mature buck and the doe blat tones are good) and it has a neato compass built in.

Unfortunately, when it gets cold (like it did this past weekend), the reeds freeze up.  When that happens, the call stops sounding like deer and starts sounding like asthmatic weasels doing jumping jacks.  >:-(

[elk ninja]

Dave,
As usual, you beat me too it.  Don't call.
Mike

[Raineman]

As of Saturday, and the action I witnessed, there is no better than the Primos Buck Roar.

Sorry Dave...but how are the rare steaks at the Ore House? I'd fly in for one of those! Or perhaps a game of pool at Solids! A snowboard at Purgatory? or a round of golf on top of the hill? As long as I can make the walk back across the Animas river bridge, I'll be okay.

[cjones]

The buck roar is all i carry these days. I started using it last season and it works. It will freeze up on ya but can be fixed be simply flicking the reed with your finger. The sound is so good that i can put up with that.

[foxbo]

Dave, would you recommend the same advice for turkey hunters?

[jgbennett6]

my new favorite is the extiguisher tube, it has a slide that allows you to go from fawn bleat to doe to buck it sounds great also

[Shawn Leonard]

Quaker Boy makes one of the best sounding I know of. To me most calls produce to deep of a sound for the bucks I hunt. If I was hunting giant mid-west bucks than maybe, but here a big buck 3.5 years old will dress 150-170#s. What I am getting at ya need a call that works and sounds good inthe area you are hunting. The true talker is nice but man it is big and takes up a lot of room. Unlike Kenny and some others I blind call every half hour or so and it has worked for me. I do one quick series and put the call away unless I get a response.Shawn

[LostNation_Larry]

Try a voice grunt.

I've had marginal success with grunting, but I've had my best success with using my voice.  I pack it everywhere I go so it takes no room in my fanny pack.  The only problem is it can dry up and sometimes I bury my face in my coat to do a "warm up" grunt before the "showtime" grunt.  Pulled a nice buck to 5 yards yesterday.

When I use my Tru Talker it sounds good to me, but the deer ignore it.