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How to Call Deer
Below, Terry asks a great question concerning the True Talker Deer Call.
How can a deer hunter reproduce the sound of the fawn bleat during deer season to attract does?
You can read my answer under Terry's comment.
Marty Prokop
Marty,
Someone gave me a true talker deer call. I have never used a call before and would love to try it. I have read that you can call in does with a fawn bleat. How do you make that sound? I hunt in an earn-a-buck unit so I need to harvest a doe. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Terry
Terry,
The Hunter’s Specialties True Talker is a great call. I personally use one each year and have had great success.
The True Talker has four bands over the top of the reed. Depressing each band will produce different deer vocalizations. You can also vary pitch and tone, and alter the volume, rhythm and inflection when calling. The True Talker's four memory bands allow the caller to quickly find the desired tone.
The Bleat is the fawn version of the bawl, it is given by the fawn when it wants urgent attention, is hungry, or wants care, and may be heard as far as 100 yards away with the human ear.
The Bawl is an intense call used by deer in distress, often when caught by a predator or trapped. The sound is a loud baa. Does often respond to the call by running in, presumably out of maternal instinct.
The pitch of the fawn bleat is low-medium-low. The tone is low-medium, and the volume of a fawn bleat is low-moderate.
The Mew is used by the fawn when it wants attention, or is given in response to the maternal grunt of the doe. The mew sounds much like it is spelled. The pitch of the sound is low-high-low and lasts about 20 to 30 seconds in length. Both tone and volume of this call are low.
If you have the chance to go into your local sporting goods store before your season begins, look for a deer vocalization tape or cd. Listen to the tape and try to duplicate the sounds with your True Talker.
Practice as much as you can before you head out into your deer hunting woods. When deer season opens you will be calling like a pro.
Good Luck and Great Hunting!
Marty Prokop
www.Free-Deer-Hunting-Tips.com
Posted by Marty Prokop
Comments
do you have a picture of a true talker
Posted by: marcel mclaughlin at October 28, 2007 3:50 PM
Marcel,
Thanks for your comment.
You can view a picture of the call by going to the Hunter's Specialties website or by going to Google and typing in "True Talker Deer Call"
I have been using one for a few years now and it works. I called in many does last year and had fawns come to within 10 feet of my stand.
Good Luck and Great Hunting!
Marty Prokop
Posted by: Marty Prokop at October 28, 2007 4:39 PM
What is the difference between whitetail buck and doe droppings. I have read that buck droppings will be clumped and doe's will be spread out like dropping raisins. Also read that it depends on what the deer has eaten and is impossible to tell the difference. Please clear this up for me. Thank You - Jeff Horacek, Sioux Falls, SD
Posted by: Jeff Horacek at October 31, 2007 7:19 PM
Jeff,
Thanks for your comment.
There has been much debate over whether a deer hunter can tell if he is following a big buck or a doe by looking at the dropping size.
Here is what I found.
A big deer, whether a big buck or a big doe, will produce droppings to match their body sizes.
When you come across a pile of deer droppings and the pellets are very small, you are most likely looking at fawn droppings.
In regards to clumping versus individual pellets, this correlates with the foods deer are eating.
Most generally, deer droppings will be clumped together in the spring through parts of the summer. This happens because deer are eating lush green vegetation, succulent plants and apples. These foods are softer foods for the deer to digest resulting in clumping of their droppings.
The individual deer pellets are the result of deer eating browse such as leaves, twigs, acorns and hard mast crops. The food of the fall is harder to digest for deer and hence makes for individual pellets.
You can actually tell what a deer has been eating by its droppings. If you were to pick through the droppings you can find out what foods deer are eating and determine the area of the food sources on your hunting land.
Good Luck and Great Hunting!
Marty Prokop
Posted by: Marty Prokop at October 31, 2007 9:56 PM
