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Favorite grunt call?

bigmike23

bigmike23

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Seems at some point in the off season, my grunt call got covid and died, sounds awful. Tried cleaning it to no avail.

What y'all recommend?
 
Hunters Specialties True Talker OG. It is a little large, but has a great, deep grunt to it.

 
VASteve said:
Hunters Specialties True Talker OG. It is a little large, but has a great, deep grunt to it.
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Same one I use and love it. Pretty confident it made the difference in several bucks I've gotten & near misses. 2nd choice is the Extinguisher but think thats more becuase of slide control being a little easier to adjust tone and can also free up frozen reed when hunting late season. Got that for my sons but like the sound of mine better.
 
Hands down the best grunt call I’ve ever used. It’s a little more expensive than others but it is very heavy duty and well made. It has a heft to it other calls do not. I believe the “tubes” are real rubber or
Something similar. https://www.quakerboy.com/product/brawler-buck-call/

One I would also consider is the Noreaster Game Calls Rick Labbe signature grunt. It has a brass slider on it with a rubber tube as well but it’s a bit pricier:
https://nor-eastergamecalls.com/
 
Which brand was it? Can you pull the reed out? Or replace it?
I have a woodheaven. I kinda wish I would have got the one with the snort weeze built in.
But it was acting up shortly after I got it. I contacted them and they sent me a new reed. I could remove it so I pulled it out wiped it down and put it back in and was better. Now I have an extra reed for it. So see if you can pull the reed out. Or maybe try some light air from your air compressor. You probably got a few pumpkin spice seasonings stuck in there.
 
Woodhaven Intimidator. Sounds great can get loud without totally crapping out for windy days.
 
Second for the Quaker boy brawler. It’s the most realistic sounding I’ve ever tried. I called in 3-4 bucks within an hour or so one year with it. (May have been the same 1-2 bucks, but it seemed to fool them every time.)
 
I’ve been buying wooden grunt calls from a guy on Etsy. I absolutely love the warm and rich tones produced by the wood tube. All the plastic ones I’ve used sound incredibly fake to me. However, I’d like to gather up a dozen calls and listen to them in the woods from 50-100 yards away with someone else blowing on them to see how they translate at a distance.
 
gcr0003 said:
I thought we all agreed in another thread that we weren’t carrying grunt calls and rattles this year because they are extra unnecessary stuff. Now we are all buying new grunt calls?
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So you’ve been practicing your mouth calls?

I can do a pretty good grunt, but I can’t get enough volume to send it 50-100 yards on a windy or rainy day.
 
Count me as a third vote for the brawler. Brings em in on a string. The extinguisher sounds decent, until you have it next to this thing. There's no comparison for the deep grunt.

I'll still use the extinguisher for a doe sound though.


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gcr0003 said:
I thought we all agreed in another thread that we weren’t carrying grunt calls and rattles this year because they are extra unnecessary stuff. Now we are all buying new grunt calls?
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Half the bucks I killed were because of the grunt tube. I never blind call. If you see him and know he's not coming your way, it may be your only chance to pull him over to you.

I consider it vital in my pack.
 
Never had any luck with grunt tubes or grunting. I thought about the extinguisher. But haven't ventured to buying it.
 
Probably 75% of the deer I have on my wall I called in with a custom grunt tube or doe bleat.
Some are set up strictly as doe calls but most are grunts. I cringe when I hear some hunters hitting deer calls. Less is more and more is less... you gotta mimic the same noise you hear from deer in the woods. With that said, they don't work everywhere and I think they work best mid October on. I killed a nice 10 point 11/6/24 with a custom doe bleat. He ran straight to me. The year before I grunted in a 8 from 300 yards, shot over the top of him at 30 yards, one week later I found him again and grunted him right to me using another grunt call and smoked him.
Rodd Madison, Jim Amiot, Marty Byler make deer grunt calls that win calling competitions. They can be found on FB.
Some I buy and after adjusting the O-ring and tuning it I realize they are better at bleats. If you practice, you'll never think about those Primos can calls again.

Deer calls work. I always have them... but when you use them, you gotta sound like a real deer.
 
Lucky13 said:
Probably 75% of the deer I have on my wall I called in with a custom grunt tube or doe bleat.
Some are set up strictly as doe calls but most are grunts. I cringe when I hear some hunters hitting deer calls. Less is more and more is less... you gotta mimic the same noise you hear from deer in the woods. With that said, they don't work everywhere and I think they work best mid October on. I killed a nice 10 point 11/6/24 with a custom doe bleat. He ran straight to me. The year before I grunted in a 8 from 300 yards, shot over the top of him at 30 yards, one week later I found him again and grunted him right to me using another grunt call and smoked him.
Rodd Madison, Jim Amiot, Marty Byler make deer grunt calls that win calling competitions. They can be found on FB.
Some I buy and after adjusting the O-ring and tuning it I realize they are better at bleats. If you practice, you'll never think about those Primos can calls again.

Deer calls work. I always have them... but when you use them, you gotta sound like a real deer.
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This. 100%. I've heard some people puff on a grunt tube like they're playing a tuba.

In my experience, one of the most effective sounds through a grunt are the short, sharp "click" sounds, for lack of a better term. The brawler mentioned above is pretty good at this sound.


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A tending grunt is money. Think of it like calling in turkey. You don’t have to make a perfect sounding hen… it’s all about cadence.
You get the cadence of a real deer grunt you’ll get his attention.
If where you hunt you’ve heard deer make grunts or bleats… deer calls will help you.
I like the tending grunt because it’s telling the deer 2 things.
There’s a doe over there and another buck is with her.
 
A good grunt call enables
You to make the tooka tooka tooka tooka tooka tooka tooka tooka braaaawhall clicking sound without it fluttering Into
A regular grunt.
Amd that’s basically how I make that sound, by saying “tooka” into the grunt call at a decently quick cadence. Kinda like gobbling on a diaphragm call but not anywhere near as fast.

And I am going to say that under the right conditions blind calling does work. If I can get my scent dumping down there to a deep ravine I’ll call all day. My favorite sequence (after several sets of very subtle and low gutteral grunts occasionally throughout the hunt) achieving no response, I will mimic two bucks squaring up because they’re trying to compete for a hot doe. I’ll do a doe bleat, then a few grunts, then ticking to mimic a buck after flehmaning or lip curling. Soon after te ding grunts. Then a snort wheeze a few more grunts and then antler rattling.
 
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