Bleating?

[tcw]

You guys use the Bleat call?  I'm new and looking for all the odds in my favor I can get.  Just read about the grunt tube.  Don't have one yet, but sounds like I need one.

Anyways - the bleat can-  What's the deal?

[ishiwannabe]

Deadly during the rut. I can mess with does and fawns with it before the rut kicks in though.

I use it in combination with the grunt tube during the rut. Three bleats, about a ten second pause, then 10-15 short grunts...I try to move the tube around so it deflects some. I have shot numerous bucks using that combo.

[wollelybugger]

I have bleated in a lot of bucks during the rut. When you get their attention you have to stop. No bleat call, just with my voice, Blaaa like a sheep, but more high pitched.

[Bobby Urban]

Plug your nose and say, "Blaaaa"  Or "Maaaaa" both are great bleat calls and the price is good.  Better yet, you never forget to bring it into the woods.

[buckeye_hunter]

I used "The Can" bleat call and had a coyote come into it last season. Nearly got him at 15 yards! Other than that, no luck. Never even seen a deer using it, but have grunted in two young bucks.

-Charlie

[xtrema312]

For quite a few years I put the smack down on the bucks and does with one.  Then the cans came out and everyone has one.  The last couple years I get no response or they sneak in later to check back. Last year I may as well been saying "here deer" for all the good it did.  I would get a buck's attention, he would look, and head the other way.  The grunt was no better.  I think there are too many people using them now in the heavily hunted areas where I am.  The deer have wised up to them I think just like tree stands.  I will be using them again this year, but with much less use.

[30coupe]

I've used the can to call in both bucks and does. The fawn bleat will bring in does like nobody's business. Last year I had a nice eight point come in at a trot to a can call. Then my cell phone vibrated just as I was about to draw on him. It isn't loud, but he sure heard it. I didn't pick me out, but he just kind of ambled on out of the area without giving me a shot.

I messed around with a doe last year using the grunt tube. I called her in three times. The first time I saw her on a trail about 75 yards away through the timber. I couldn't tell at that point if it was a buck or doe, just a deer, so I grunted a couple of times and she made a beeline for my stand. When she was almost in range the wind switched a bit, and she winded me and trotted off 30 yards or so. She couldn't pick me out. I was in a tree and was wearing my Cabela's Wooltimate camo. The second time she came in kind of stiff legged but snorted and blew out at a run. When she stopped about 50 yards away, I gave a couple grunts, and much to my surprise she came right back in. I had her inside of 15 yards each time, but she never gave me an angle I felt comfortable with. The last time, I actually drew on her. One more step and the arrow would have been on its way. She just had to clear a sapling, but she caught my movement and the jig was up. This was a nice mature doe, not a yearling. It sure was fun, even though I never took a shot. I couldn't believe she came back the first time, much less another.

[Tom Leemans]

Fawn in distress bleat works on does for sure, and will sometime even bring in a buck. In my experience, the buck will show up and look around out of curiousity, but the does are looking to come save the fawn from whatever has it in it's clutches.

[VAFarmer]

I have a True Talker tube, and the fawn call does work well on does, it seems.   Not just in the rut either.
During rut, I only grunt and rattle.  I used to think rattling was a waste of time, till one day I was close enough to a fight, and could even make it out thru the brush.  The larger of the 3 bucks (that I could see) was really giving another one of them a hard time.  I thought that would have been a good time to to try and sneak in and get a shot, but I figured I'd make too much noise in the tree.

But the Sound-the sound of those antlers as two hit each other was astounding!
LOUD!  and so this all plays out, I didn't get a single shot at any of them-but that was one of those "teach me to fish, and I eat for a lifetime" moments.  You see, when I first heard it, shortly after, I had heard something going thru the brush, and not quietly or cautiously, but "all out".   After seeing all this and pondering over what had happened later that night I realized-the two had started, and what I had heard was ole #3 had come in-cause he had heard the combat.   I was about 50 yds away, but in the woods that sound carried forever, I can only imagine the concussion being generated there.  so now when I grunt, I follow that a few minutes later with HARD rattling.  Works pretty good.
Sorry to hijack,

Farmer

[katie]

At the very start of rut last year I pulled out my can call.  I was shocked when I had 3 deer run in on me.  I never got a clear shot at any.  I had one straight behind me and 2 up front.  I wanted to call again to bring the 2 up front in more.  But I figured the guy behind me would see the movement.  I was sold on that call from then on!