The dominant buck grunt is very similar to that of an adult doe or yearling buck, but with one very distinct difference: it’s much deeper. If you happen to hunt in an area that has a good adult buck ...

Heading into the woods without a few deer calls isn’t a good plan. Deer use various sounds to communicate with each other from the early part of the season to its end. When you understand the sounds ...

As an obsessed spring gobbler hunter knows short of filling a tag the most satisfaction comes from having a prolonged dialog with a throaty bird doing its best to attract that hen who has got his ...

To evade predators and establish a social hierarchy for procreation, whitetail deer rely not only on scent, sight and body posturing, but also on an amazing assortment of vocal sounds. There are ...

Which buck call is best? There are almost as many ways to attempt to attract a buck as there are bucks in the wild. One of the most common and most effective methods, especially when hunting in a ...

For many hunters, the only deer sound they’ve ever heard is the loud alarm snort deer make when they sense something is amiss. The resulting “blow” alerts deer near and far that there might be an ...

One of the most exciting things about moving to Oklahoma from Alaska 10 years ago was the chance to hunt white-tailed deer again. For 23 years, I hunted moose, caribou and bears instead. Got a bison ...

All Johnathan Fortenberry needed was a change in the weather. He got that and more leading up to his hunt on Jan. 16, when a stiff north wind blew across southern Mississippi, dropping temperatures ...

JACKSON, Miss. – An 8-year-old Mississippi girl was doing school work in a deer stand when her mother told her there was a buck nearby. When the young hunter looked through her scope, something much ...

DEAR JOAN: Do you know what animal/bird makes soft grunting sounds in the morning? I was out with a large dog in rural Gilroy about 7:15 a.m. The lawn is surrounded by horse pastures, and wild turkeys ...