Fawn In Distress.....


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SRA and I were talking last week about late season deer.....

I was asking him which calls he thought I should bother with.....

He said basically doe bleats... (the lil can).

Then he said he has on occasion taken his adjustable grunt tube, set it for fawn, and blown it like a fawn that was hurt.....

He then said that doe and sometimes coyotes will come looking.....

Anyone else try this????

I tried it a couple of times this weekend, with NO success......

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Re: Fawn In Distress.....

Fawn in distress really works in the first few months after fawns are born. I've hear that you have to be ready (with camera) because they come in fast and nervous looking for danger.

I have called in coyotes with the fawn in distess call but since I didn't have a decoy, they stayed in the treeline and never came out.

If you are going to call in this manner, I would recommend two things:

1. Use a decoy

2. Set up near a barbed wire fence and rattle the fence the same time you're calling. I've heard that this make the yotes think that a fawn is caught in the fence. Added noise like a fawn is actually hurt will help.

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Re: Fawn In Distress.....

I've never used it but it sounds like it might work.. oh well... until next October.. grin.gif

Actually.. on the Randy Anderson Calling All Coyotes DVD, there is a certain hunt where he is wailing on the Primos Ki-Yi set at fawn distress and he calls in 3 does. A mature doe and two fawns. The mature doe came in charging and the fawns just followed her not understanding what was going on.. They came in jumping and pounding their hooves against the ground on a run trying to sound as big as possible. Atleast that's what I made of it. He wasn't using a decoy and they came to about 10 ft from him, then figured out something wasn't right and turned around and booked it the other way.

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Re: Fawn In Distress.....

A couple of years ago I was in my treestand when I heard a fawn bleating.I see this little button buck walk by my stand bawling away when 2 doe and their younguns come in.The little buck didn't want anything to do with them.Then I heard a doe grunting below the ridge I was hunting and the fawn perked up it's ears,flicked his tail a few times then tore down over the side of the ridge-guess he recognized his mama's call.It was pretty cool to watch.

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