Had an awesome hunt this past Saturday morning. 15 min after daylight,I dropped my David Leonard grunt call out of my climber. After a short mental debate,I climbed the 30' down as quietly as I could,and retrieved it. I'm a firm believer in blind calling with not only a grunt call,but a set of real antlers as well. After getting back up to where I was,and not having anything blowup and run off,I figured I would do a rattle sequence along with some short quick grunts after. Not even 5 min after I was done, a real nice 7 point(broken brow 8) came in from my west. As I was filming him,I heard foot steps coming from directly behind me. As the deer behind me cleared the brush he was walking through,I saw a nice rack and figured I'd get some footage of him as well. I thought he was a busted up 8 point. I get a little under 20 seconds of footage of him,and straight out of the north west comes this real tall 8 running with a good pace directly at the 7 point I'd been filming. I yelled at him to stop,but he never totally did. I fired once and he turned around and ran back the direction he came from. Thought I'd missed,so shucked a shell and loudly yelled "meh" at him again. He stopped for a second and I fired again. He only made it about 2 more steps and that was it. Once down and over to him,I saw I hit him both times. 1st shot was back a little bit,2nd shot was dead in the middle of the shoulder and exited just in front of the opposite shoulder, as we running away from me. He was 186lb and had 22" and 20.5" beams w/ only a 13" spread. I'm tickled with him. After I re watched the footage I'd got,I noticed the 2nd buck to come in behind me was actually an old 10 point that had broken his g3 off one side. Definitely looked like he was mature as well. I 100% attribute all 3 bucks coming in to the grunt call/rattling horns I'd used just 5 min earlier.

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Thats purty cool! My Boys (and me) are gonna get one of his calls in their Stockings this year 🙂

Congrats! dave calls are great!

Congrats man. I've had alot of success with using a grunted call over the years

Congrats! David's calls are mighty fine, dad and I both keep one on us

Congrats