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From: cvedc!pdx.csd.mot.com!brian%reed.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brian Vandewettering)
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Subject: Re: Deer Calls
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Date: 18 Apr 91 11:32:23 GMT
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In article <538@erb1.engr.wisc.edu> keith@clodii.columbiasc.NCR.COM writes:
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>decided to try the call and so I blew the bleat call once softly like
>the instructions said and guess what? It spooked the deer and it took
>off running and snorting and didn't stop till it got to the next
>county!  Never got to see that deer. Needless to say, I have never
>used this call again.

I have had the same experience with the bleat call.  A friend and I 
were putting the sneek on a group of about 10 deer feeding
peacefully in a saddle formed by two hills.  As we aproached from 
the downwind side cover started getting sparse and we had yet to 
see any bucks.  I elected to blow my bleat call in order to draw
the bucks out.  Big mistake.  All I saw was a flash of antlers as 
the entire group bailed over the ridge.

These were blacktail deer which may not respond well to calling as  
I have heard that they are not as vocal as whitetails.

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