Learning the fine art of when to use rattle and grunt calls – and understanding how deer respond to those calls – will help increase your odds for success. (Photo courtesy of Lynn Burkhead)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
When the glorious deer hunting days of the rut arrive, most deer hunters worth their salt will carry some sort of method with them by which they can make some whitetail noise.
As in rattling a set of antlers and working a grunt call, all in an effort to shake up a testosterone-crazed big buck spoiling for a fight and looking for some love.
The kind of bruiser buck highly susceptible to such noise, a buck that can be rolled to the turf where a waiting hunter can tag said buck with a hard-earned deer tag.
But using such tools isn't as simple as just smashing the horns together or pushing some hot air through a grunt tube.
Instead, there is a method to the madness of...