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I have found that if a buck is gonna show interest in a grunt call then they will typically start responding to it on the first grunt…..That doesn’t mean that they’ll come running in but rather most of the time they’ll come in cautiously and hang up just out in the distance waiting to see or smell what they heard. By continually blowing on your call another 4,5,6,7 times…..you’re just giving away your location and likely never even realizing it. This season try blowing your grunt call once or twice on a cold still morning then set it down and just listen for awhile

I’ve found that mature bucks just circle down wind of where the sound comes from and then they are gonna bust you anyways. I don’t like em except to stop a deer to shoot.

Agreed. Same reasoning applies to gobblers.. If he responds shut up. He about knows the tree you’re on and more calling only helps pinpoint location where the hen should appear.

If you're up in a tree in a cold morning you have a few hours where thermals are in your favor......Other than that I agree though......Most people would probably be better off not blowing it at all......

I’ve killed a few doing it. I love to blind call in the rut in the am. They like to do this but I tend to do it more when I can watch the downwind side wtc

Yeah, just sit somewhere and be still. All those calls just runem off anyway.

Used grunt call to briefly stop one long enough to shoot. 8 point trailing a doe stopped and was looking for source and I was able to shoot it. Honestly not sure I’ve ever just grunted and called one in. Maybe a young one.

I've grunted up several during the rut. It works during the right time

Grunt calls are a gimmick and spook 99.99 of deer in Alabama beat to focus on scent control

I've called them in, I've stopped a buck and Im sure I probably scared more than that .. Had a mature buck in Greenville that was going the opposite way come straight me after a grunt. I like the one I have, I think it's an old Hayden, you inhale to use. Nice and deep. So as far as I can say, it's helped as much as I have schooled them.....

I have better luck with rattling than a grunt call , but this is Alabama and rattling won't work.

Use to hunt in four corners (Evergreen) . Old man who ran the club grunted more bucks up for the young hunters than anything I can remember. I personally know of 3 called in because they were my nephews. What I do remember about his success was it was always on bitter cold mornings. I use a grunt call to stop them momentarily for a shot and it has worked for me more than a few times.

Grunting has never been my go to. Tickling the horns on the other hand…

Have used them like that to stop a buck in hopes of getting a shot....

I have grunted in a pile of bucks especially during the rut and a pile of mature bucks doing it. Believe it or not the first part of bow season I’ve shot and missed deer before and they run off and I’ve grunted with my mouth and had deer come walking back pissed off that another deer is in there’s fresh territory. I’ve had a lot of success doing it and have had some run down my gun barrel and shot them at point blank range.

I will add that I had a pet deer as a kid and watched him grow up and live for 10-11 years and hearing the sounds he made is what I try to mimic with my mouth and for whatever reason it seems to calm deer down and make them come back after they are spooked or something

I threw my grunt call in the garbage years ago.

So did I. Right along with the decoy. All I ever did was run deer to the next counties with them.