Heading into the woods without a few deer calls isn’t a good plan. Deer use various sounds to communicate with each other from the early part of the season to its end. When you understand the sounds ...

Deer calls won’t guarantee you that a Booner will run into your setup. But when used strategically, they can grab a deer’s attention. You can sometimes even call them—ever so cautiously—into range.

Bucks tolerate a lot of natural noise in the woods, but the wrong call at the wrong time will send them out of your life in a blur of white tails. Deer calling works only when it sounds like real deer ...