Trail cam video of a whitetail grunting.

[lyallpeder]

I put my trail camera out on Nov 12 2023 on a scrape that had been used for 3+ years. The way my season worked out I decided to leave it out rather than walk in for it at 9pm after recovering my deer in another area, a couple days later.

This is one of the videos on it, not great quality but turn up your volume, it’s interesting to listen to how he grunts as he walks past. I guess that explains why I never have success with a grunt, I’ve been doing it totally wrong!

https://youtube.com/shorts/zlfrLVqzv...1AI1Up7DLDOnww


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[Stinky Buffalo]

Very cool!

I think I'm doing it wrong as well.

[58thecat]

Yeah they have short grunts, deep long grunts, high pitched piggy grunts etc that’s why when I use my grunt tube I tend to use all the various grunts I have heard.
Funniest was watching a dink buck chase a doe and the distress piglet sound he periodically made I almost puked laughing so hard and trying to keep it together 20 feet above the ground.



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[Stinky Buffalo]

LOL! Those little bucks can be so entertaining at times!

Had one visit several times when I was hunting this one area, he was a real big shot when Mr. Big wasn't around.

[Demonical]

This video is from 2023.
Pretty cool the sound this buck makes.
The grunt is very short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvUCMHZu1o

[lyallpeder]

Originally Posted by Demonical

This video is from 2023.
Pretty cool the sound this buck makes.
The grunt is very short.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYvUCMHZu1o

Yeah I always thought it was more of a bawwww. Bawwww. Next year I’ll have to try more of a bw bw bw while moving. The both seem to be moving hunting does while doing it.

[Demonical]

^ Ya that buck was clearly scent trailing.

To me the thing to take away is how short the grunt really is.

Cuz the natural tendency guys have (similar to ridiculously loooonnngggg moose calls), is to make longer grunt calls.

[58thecat]

Originally Posted by Demonical

^ Ya that buck was clearly scent trailing.

To me the thing to take away is how short the grunt really is.

Cuz the natural tendency guys have (similar to ridiculously loooonnngggg moose calls), is to make longer grunt calls.

Some grunts are, I have sat and watched the same buck depending if he was chasing a doe or just walking about etc but there was long grunts, short grunts, high pitched and low pitched almost like a pig squeal and then a long deep burp.
Also lip curl and wheeze too which I toss into my arsenal two sharp short inhales and then a long inhale.
Crazy the noises these bucks can make when all worked up.


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[Curtsyneil]

There all types of grunts you will hear a buck make. Usually the short quiet grunts are a buck tending a doe where as a roar or a wheeze is a challenge to another buck. Usually the tending grunts are short and usually the ones you hear in the field if you have ever had a hot doe getting chased by a buck or followed.

[Demonical]

^ Interesting.

All of the buck grunts I've heard have been the short grunts like the buck that went by my game camera.

[Curtsyneil]

Originally Posted by Demonical

^ Interesting.

All of the buck grunts I've heard have been the short grunts like the buck that went by my game camera.

Deer vocalize more than people realize. It's pretty cool experience watching 20 deer in a field feeding on how much they talk and communicate. Fawns, doe's and bucks.

[MK2750]

The wheeze is very misunderstood IMO. I have witnessed several bucks come across fresh doe scent. They exhale, curl their lip and inhale abruptly through their nose. I googled such behaviour and apparently it sucks the scent into deeper part of the nasal cavity for a more thorough evaluation.

The noise they make sounds very much like what people are describing as a snort wheeze, which they believe is an aggressive challenge to other bucks.

I have lots of videos of bucks, both big and small, posturing to out right blood feud on camera and never have I filmed or witnessed in person the snort wheeze used as an aggressive challenge.

Not that it matters as bucks are attracted to the wheeze for what ever reason. I just happen to believe they hear the noise and think another buck has stubbled upon a hot doe or trail.

Another thing people are not aware of is that a doe grunts as well. I have several summer videos with does clearly grunting at their fawns.

[calgarychef]

I shot one with my bow, he came in squealing like a pig