Deer Vocalizations

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Saw a doe this morning that had a make on me with other deer around. She was making a spitting sound over and over. Never heard that before.

[hunting170]

Hurry up, and invent a call that will mimic that sound. Like the snort, wheeze, and the buck growl, I`ve hunted 27 years, and never heard it. I did read a post on AT describing this sound though. There`s a window of opportunity here Counts 2...you better jump through it.

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Since it sounds like a spit I doubt anyone except techno-hunters like youself would even but it. Maybe you are on to something.

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It was interesting to see her make that sound over and over. She was seperated from the other 3 deer so I assume it is part of their alarm call.

[2BHNTN]

Funny thing about that growl call. I was on my way to stand early morning before light. I was downwind of what was a large bodied deer by itself. I could tell it was a good buck but could not quite make out just how big a rack it had. He was standing maybe 30 yards from the stand I was planning to get in. I had just purchased that growl call maybe a week before. This buck did exactly like those bucks in the dvd demo when he noticed me approaching. Same exact sound. I was half afraid he would come my way and kick my donkey. I guess fortunately he could not smell exactly what I was.

[Keith@AimLow]

Counts, are sure she wasn't sneezing?

[PoisonSnake]

Have you ever heard a buck cough? I tell you this 8 pointer last year came in chasing a doe. He was grunting every breath. Well, he lost her trail right under my stand. Then, this big 10 pointer came in and started chasing the 8 pointer. The 8 pointer kept making this coughing noise. Weirdest thing I have ever heard. I could have killed the 8 pointer but the 10 never would stop moving. I was grunting with my mouth, the 8 pointer was coughing, and the 10 pointer was running around ready to kick some donkey. It was a God darn deer festival of majestic proportions in that creek bottom for a good minute and a half. Then I get pissed off.

[hunting170]

The 8 pointer probably just has one of your old broadheads lodged in its lung.

[Triton X2]

PS, why didnt you shoot one of those 160 bucks?

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Keith- It sounded like a dry spit. The kind of spit you spit when you spit a finger nail or puddie hair or something of that sort. If that is a sneeze then so be it.

[PoisonSnake]

hunting170 said:
The 8 pointer probably just has one of your old broadheads lodged in its lung.

That ain't funny.

Triton: I was trying to shoot the 10 pointer. I was at full draw and I could not stop him. He was only 8 to 10 yards away. He just kept jumping over logs and chasing that other buck. He was wide open too. What made me mad was that only 10 minutes earlier I had rattled in a monster that spotted me trying to draw. Then this happened and I was pissed. I should have shot him moving. Chances are I would have hit him better than the sammich 9 pointer that I killed the next day. The way I see it, this deer was guestemated to be 135" as a 10 pointer. Now, given the 10" of ground shrinkage that would have occured, he still would have been a mid-120s deer. I'll take that any day.

[Triton X2]

I have a story to tell about last night, but I aint gonna do it. Talk about screwing the pooch, that was me last night. I have been kicking myself all last night and today.

[PoisonSnake]

Come on now. I gladly tell of my screw-ups on this site. In the last 2 years I have had 3 good ones. One really good one. I haven't even hunted this year so there is no telling what is coming down.

[Triton X2]

Well, I am not real picky, so I was going to take a doe behind the house unless a buck gave me an opportunity. About 515 yesterday afternoon out of some brush came a pretty good doe about 20 yards and was going to step out into a clearing. She stops, and I am thinking to my self just let her go a little farther, so I draw and at that time I have the brain farts of all brain farts, deciding to just go ahead and shoot her through some of the little brushy limbs that are between me and her. So I let an arrow fly, she runs off at a tremendous rate of speed. While I am watching her run off, I catch out of the corner of my eye, a deer running away as well. It was a pretty good sized buck as I did see horns but wasnt able to see just how good. It was a good bodied deer, however....So I am now sitting there with nothing to show for it cuz I went to pick up my arrow and it was clean as a whistle...and no buck....I guess I folded like a card table. There now go ahead and take your best shot, cause I didnt.

[Warmouth]

PS, once when I was new to hunting I was on private land that boardered a CA, and kept hearing this coughing sound. It started to piss me off, because I figured it to be a tresspasser. Well after 20-30minutes of hearing this behind my stand, I decide to climb down and go tell the guy what's on my mind. Only thing was, I found out after I got down, there was nobody around me for hundreds of yards. I had never heard a deer maky any noise like it since then, but one of the guys I described it to said it had to be a buck, just sounded like a human cough.