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Title: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: BigBuckFever on September 04, 2009, 11:52:51 AM: I am new to this forum but have muzzle loader hunted for years and have been thinking about adding a deer call to my arsenal of tricks. I am wondering if any of you use them, how good they work, which work best, best way to use them, and are they actually "dangerous" with regard to calling in predators? (you know jr hunters with me and the like. Might not want to call in a cougar on my 12 year old son unless I am standing next to him) I know they work great for elk, but deer... I need a little feedback. Any feedback would be great.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: Machias on September 04, 2009, 12:03:11 PM: I always have a grunt tube with me. Even before the rut it can bring in a curious buck and it can calm down a deer that has been mildly spooked if it didn't see or smell you. I have kicked a deer up out of a bed and softly grunted and they have went back and bedded back down or went back to feeding. I personally like the Primos Hypervent grunt tube.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: EastWaViking on September 04, 2009, 02:53:49 PM: a grunt tube is good, at times. If you use a fawn bleat you may bring in a mad doe... or a cougar, coyote, bear.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on September 04, 2009, 03:00:38 PM: I recommend rattling with jelly beans to attract the wiley Easter whitetail :chuckle: :chuckle: Don't have a clue about the Easter mule though.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: Woodchuck on September 04, 2009, 03:09:16 PM: rustleing the green basket grass seems to bring the easter muleys in for me :chuckle:
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: BigBuckFever on September 04, 2009, 03:11:13 PM: So it looks like not many of you guys use them very often unless you are hunting the predators or in the peak of the rut. I usually hunt the early ML season (Sept this year... seems a little too early). Sounds like a grunt might work once in awhile. Let me know if any of you do find a call that is really effective. I'd love to find a way to call 'em right to the back of my truck before I shoot em.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: Machias on September 04, 2009, 03:19:16 PM: Quote from: DOUBLELUNG on September 04, 2009, 03:00:38 PM
I recommend rattling with jelly beans to attract the wiley Easter whitetail :chuckle: :chuckle: Don't have a clue about the Easter mule though.

:chuckle:
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: Big10gauge on September 04, 2009, 03:27:23 PM: I really hate the Easter hunts, My mom used to slap me when I brought home all those little brown eggs the Easter whitetails and mulies left. :chuckle: :yike:

Actually predator calls work pretty good in Sept and Oct.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: BigBuckFever on September 04, 2009, 03:41:26 PM: I have tried jelly beans on these west side black tail and they always came running with there tail wagging and their tongue out. I thought the eastern Whiteys and muleys were smarter than these coastal bucks though.
:o
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: BigBuckFever on September 04, 2009, 03:59:42 PM: Are there any serious answers out there? :rolleyes: I have $20 for a new call that is burning a hole in my pocket. I'd hate to waste it on something that sounds like a deer fart and scares the bucks away.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: jackelope on September 04, 2009, 09:04:53 PM: i would spend the $20 on gas.

thats a serious answer.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: EastWaViking on September 04, 2009, 09:10:54 PM: :yeah:

Unless it's the rut, I wouldn't depend on any calls.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: Machias on September 04, 2009, 10:25:03 PM: :dunno: My first answer was serious. :dunno:
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: huntnphool on September 05, 2009, 09:31:44 AM: Nice whities Miles, are those both Washington bucks?
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: jackelope on September 06, 2009, 12:51:26 PM: Quote from: Machias on September 04, 2009, 10:25:03 PM
:dunno: My first answer was serious. :dunno:

i always have a grunt tube with me.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: BigBuckFever on September 08, 2009, 03:40:31 PM: Thanks for the feedback. It looks like the standard calls might work fairly well during the peak of the rut, otherwise just grunt and bay at them yourself if they run off and they might stop and look back at you.

By the way, very nice bucks Miles.

As far as the Easter WA Whitetails, I will check in to a special April :hello:tag and try to type more carefully next time.
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: SHANE(WA) on September 17, 2009, 05:05:17 AM: grunt call for sure in the rut! I wont leave home without one! my personal preference for a good grunt call is the MAD snort wheeze and grunt tube, this call makes great sounds, u can make the snort, its super loud if need be or can be toned down.I have owned many this is by far the best I have had
Title: Re: Best Call for Easter WA White tail and Muleys
Post by: boneaddict on September 17, 2009, 06:08:37 AM: I've seen muledeer grunt calls and whitetail grunt calls. I wonder if the deer can tell the difference.....