How to Use Doe Calls to Attract Whitetail Deer

Learn how to call whitetail deer with doe calls

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Learning how to use doe bleats and grunts can improve your hunting with little effort. Turkey hunters have used female sounds to attract gobblers for years, this same technique also works when deer hunting. After all bucks spend most of their fall hours in pursuit of female whitetails. Doe Bleat: does utter this sound throughout the year to communicate with other does and fawns. A doe bleat is high pitched and last about 1 second,it sounds like Waaa and is usually repeated once. Hunters can mock this call at any time and be assured that this is a natural sound throughout the woods the entire season. Doe Grunt: primarily a contact call, does grunt to their young when separated, it means i'm over here. This is high pitched and very soft Uhhh and only last half a second. Fawn Bleat: fawns bleat when separated from their mother,it sounds like a baby sheep Maaa Maaa, if distressed a fawn will repeat this over & over. Estrous Doe Bleat: hunters have over used this call and many bucks have grown indifferent to this call. The estrous bleat works best pre-rut, when bucks are interested but does aren't reciprocating. The estrous bleat is high pitched and last 2-3 seconds Aaaah- Aaaah and is often repeated.

2. These calls all work well,are the most common heard throughout the woods but many hunters make these common mistakes. #1) Avoid calling too often. Deer are not making a lot of noise,so try calling every 1/2 hour or longer

3. #2) Deer have much better hearing than humans, use very soft short calls. Does make a very soft, high pitched sound.

4. #3) Match your call sequences with deer movements,if deer aren't moving only use a call every hour or so. Also consider using calls to cover your mistakes( your stand squeeks or an approaching buck picks up your scent), this could turn or stop that deer allowing you to get a shot.