Has anyone here ever actually heard a snort wheeze in the wilds? I have never been overly concerned with the snort wheeze myself. Maybe I am leaving out a necessary tool?
Last year was the first time.. I was sitting in my stand and was in a bowl where two long ridges forked off. I was facing the top of the bowl. This wasn't my original spot. I had been further down ontop of one of the ridges. But as soon as i got my mobile stand hung the neighbor boy came up the hill on a quad.. I ran him off and moved to the bowl.
As i was sitting there i could hear a deer back behind me down towards the bottom.. I kept hearing it but couldn't see it.. Finally i caught gimps of a rack.. Small basket 8 was standing in a ditch drinking water. He walked slowly up the ditch. I lost sight of him after about 10 min. Figured he slipped out.
About an hour later i could hear him again. He was in the exact same spot. He must have bedded in that ditch.. Anyway he goes slowly up the ditch to the top... He hops out of the ditch and sneaks slowly over the top..
I was laughing at the sneaky little bugger using the ditch as cover in the big woods.. Smart little booger he knows season is open...
About that time that basket 8 came off the top of that ridge like his ass was on fire. I mean HAULING. Making 20 foot bounds... He gets almost to the bottom of the hollow and jumps off in another ditch and sprawls flat out like Bamby on ice.. Laying there, legs out flat, PANTING......
Then I see why... Off the hill comes about a 180 class heavy mass Buck.. I mean a pure SLOB... He comes halfway down the ridge all stiff just pounding every step... Stops on a small logging rd before he gets to the small ditch the 8 used to sneak up. About 85 yards away from me...
Stomping, shaking his head, beating the brush.. He went over to a little tree about the size of a broom handle to rub it.... Shakes his head once and just busts it off. Then looks at the broke tree head cocked to the side like.. YEAH FUGGER TAKE THAT.. He started to make a scrape and i grunted at him.. He spun around and FFfT FFFT FFFFFFFFF.. Then he did it again FFT FFT FFFFFFFFFFF... Stomping around.. I was set... This fugger is taking a ride in the truck... I threw one back athim FFFT FFFFT FFFFFFFFF. He instantly did it back...
Guess what......... He stood over there for 20 minutes all pissed off but would NOT cross that ditch. He would stomp up and down it back and forth, But wouldn't cross it... It wasn't anything really. I can cross it with 2-3 jumps. He could have cleared the whole thing..
I threw everything at that deer after a while but he was hung like a big dumb boss tom... He eventually lost interest and went stomping back up the hill... Scrub buck still proned out in the ditch 200 more yards down hill...
Ready for the kick in the nuts...He would be on the wall If i would have stayed where i hung the stand when i ran the kid on the quad off. I ran that kid off maybe 2 hours before... And that buck was on that ridge i guarantee you the whole time... He just held tight, i'm sure of it...
I got a hell of a show though. He did about 7-8 snort weezes, grunting, stiff legging, made a scrape and busting up trees.
Nobody shot him last year.... Went out to that ridge last weekend to scout and there was a small fresh scrape where he had one of 30 last year.. This buck last year had 2 scrapes as big as my truck hood over there.... I'm hoping the mobility of my sticks and stand will allow me to get in on him tight.. Sneak in on him tight and dump his ass..
Btw that Flextone Snort Wheeze sounded just right to what he did. Except he did it shitloads louder.
