Grunt call

[Terry]

I am going to preface this post by saying I am not a fan of deer calls. In my experience they do more harm than good. However, as a last ditch effort while watching a buck walk away forever, I will grunt at them to see if I can get him to come back. It has payed off twice out of probably 20 tries, but it's still two opportunities I would have never had.

That being said, I recently was led to Vector game calls on another forum. Vector makes a few different types of game calls, one of them being a buck grunt. I am a big fan of handmade items and love supporting the small guys in the hunting industry, so I ordered one. After receiving it and playing with it non-stop, I am thoroughly impressed. The craftsmanship is outstanding, and the sound is to my ears the best I have heard. It has a real deep gritty sound, much more realistic than the higher more bland grunts I usually use. Not sure if it will attract more buck, but every little bit helps.

Since these are handmade, there is a short waiting period. Probably too late for this season, but something to think about for the future.

I wanted to add I have no affiliation with Vector, I am just a happy customer who thought some fellow deer enthusiast would enjoy one of these grunts.

http://vectorcalls.com/page3.html

[Milk Weed Seed]

Looks nice. Good luck with it in these next few weeks!

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[exojam]

Looks very nice but I just do not like it when websites do not show pricing and ask you to contact them for it.

[Stanley]

Nice looking grunt call.

[Terry]

I am most impressed with it's sound. I have heard a good number of buck grunt, most of them young and they have all sounded really deep to me. I don't buy the young buck higher pitched grunt theory. Most of them have sounded more pig like than store bought deer grunts.

[Stanley]

When I hear a soft squeaky grunt I normally see a 1.5 year old buck. When I hear a loud hard deep grunt I get the bow ready. There should be some kind of difference, we're talking about a buck that is 2Xs + bigger.

[Terry]

Huh, my experience differs. They have all sounded deep to me. Even doe bleats have sounded deeper than what I expected.

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[Stanley]

I have seen some big bucks make blood curdling loud, deep, grunting noises. I mean there is no mistake, it's a big boy. I don't think there is a grunt tube made that can duplicate the volume.

[Bowhunter74201]

while hunting in missouri one year, i watched a 1.5 year old half rack chasing some does around a food plot, grunting his fool head off. he sounded like he swallowed a primos buck roar call. sounded exactly like it.

[Stanley]

while hunting in missouri one year, i watched a 1.5 year old half rack chasing some does around a food plot, grunting his fool head off. he sounded like he swallowed a primos buck roar call. sounded exactly like it.

Imagine what a buck 2Xs + the size would sound like if on that rampage?

[MOBIGBUCKS]

I use a Primos Buck roar/grunt tube. It's the best grunt tube sound wise I've ever used. You can also snort wheeze with this call as well. I don't do any blind calling but if I see a shooter going away I will snort wheeze and grunt to him. It worked back in 2010 on a big buck for me; the buck came over 200 yards away across a field to see what I was. Arrowed him at 32 yards :)

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Huh, my experience differs. They have all sounded deep to me. Even doe bleats have sounded deeper than what I expected.

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I have heard some deep sounding grunts come from small bucks on occassion and the loudest grunt I have ever heard (by far) was from a 1.5 or 2.5 year old buck, but when I hear that real deep, raspy, guttural grunt then I get excited because I know it's a fully mature buck.

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Huh, my experience differs. They have all sounded deep to me. Even doe bleats have sounded deeper than what I expected.

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I have heard some deep sounding grunts come from small bucks on occassion and the loudest grunt I have ever heard (by far) was from a 1.5 or 2.5 year old buck, but when I hear that real deep, raspy, guttural grunt then I get excited because I know it's a fully mature buck.

What did that call cost? A video or audio clip of how this call sounds would be helpful too.

[Terry]

It was $45 shipped. Here is a clip of him making one, you can get an idea of what they sound like around the 6:50 mark.

http://vimeo.com/49253716

[DEERSLAYER]

Thanks. He seems to get some good volume out of it.