Had an awesome hunt this past Saturday morning. 15 min after daylight,I dropped my David Leonard grunt call out of my climber. After a short mental debate,I climbed the 30' down as quietly as I could,and retrieved it. I'm a firm believer in blind calling with not only a grunt call,but a set of real antlers as well. After getting back up to where I was,and not having anything blowup and run off,I figured I would do a rattle sequence along with some short quick grunts after. Not even 5 min after I was done, a real nice 7 point(broken brow 8) came in from my west. As I was filming him,I heard foot steps coming from directly behind me. As the deer behind me cleared the brush he was walking through,I saw a nice rack and figured I'd get some footage of him as well. I thought he was a busted up 8 point. I get a little under 20 seconds of footage of him,and straight out of the north west comes this real tall 8 running with a good pace directly at the 7 point I'd been filming. I yelled at him to stop,but he never totally did. I fired once and he turned around and ran back the direction he came from. Thought I'd missed,so shucked a shell and loudly yelled "meh" at him again. He stopped for a second and I fired again. He only made it about 2 more steps and that was it. Once down and over to him,I saw I hit him both times. 1st shot was back a little bit,2nd shot was dead in the middle of the shoulder and exited just in front of the opposite shoulder, as he was running away from me. He was 186lb and had 22" and 20.5" beams w/ only a 13" spread. I'm tickled with him. After I re watched the footage I'd got,I noticed the 2nd buck to come in behind me was actually an old 10 point that had broken his g3 off one side. Definitely looked like he was mature as well. I 100% attribute all 3 bucks coming in to the grunt call/rattling horns I'd used just 5 min earlier.

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Thats purty cool! My Boys (and me) are gonna get one of his calls in their Stockings this year 🙂

Congrats! dave calls are great!

Congrats man. I've had alot of success with using a grunt call over the years

Congrats! David's calls are mighty fine, dad and I both keep one on us

Congrats

Congrats

Congrats! Been waiting on a picture and story! Another fine one

Awesome deer - congrats. At work - will watch video later

Nice one and cool story

Fine 4X4 , congrats . Bucks coming to rattlin' in the Southeast , who knew?

Thanks. Sure you'll be posting one any day now. You've been doing good getting your kids on deer!!



Thanks!! I don't get it when I hear people say grunting or rattling never works. I think it can work on any property as long as your consistent and making it sound as realistic as you can. You can see the bucks demeanor in every video when they come in; they're looking for the fight or deer that was grunting.

Fine buck! Southeast Alabama??

Nice clean camp grounds also!

Nice. I kept waiting on the kill shot.

Is David Leonard still around? A buddy is trying to get a call from him but unsuccessful getting in touch with him

Yep. He's still turning them out. Put 2 in mail for me today. They make great gifts!!

What is best way to get in touch with him?