Fallow calling

[243lee]

Mate of mine has just picked up some ground which has mainly roe with the odd fallow usually kicking about, no access to woods but the ground butts up to a 40ish acre wood but no rutting stands in this wood, he asked me the question and to be honest iv only limited knoweledge of fallow as my grounds only produce half a dozen or so a year for me.
The question was although he has no rutting stands if he was to call, would he draw anything out of the wood if it was in earshot? And if so would it only be out of curiosity? And then would it only be prickets, does, challenging bucks? Or wiuld he be doing more harm than good and better off just sitting quietly and seing what moves about? The nearest rutting stand to his knoweledge is around a mile away.
I literaly have no idea but did say il ask those with far greater experience and see what the outcome was
TIA

 

[75]

So he wants to call fallow out of his neighbour's wood and onto his ground?

Best bet in these circumstances would be to get the neighbour's permission to put a highseat on the edge of the wood facing out, on the condition you only shot out onto your own ground. Depends on the neighbour and whether they have too many deer and want them shot of course. You may have some luck rattling antlers to attract bucks but calling fallow isn't generally successful.

 

[paulbshooting]

I would suspect his calling may get lucky with a pricket or two roaming around near the rut with the stand nearby. Might be best just to optimise his high seat location to suit the prevailing wind and ground where the deer are expected to move along.

 

[243lee]

Iv not seen the ground yet as he only picked it up saterday but apparently the wood isnt shot except for a walk through for a few pheasants once or twice a season by the farmers son and a few mates,
I havent got a lot of experience with fallow but i did think grunting away blindly maywell push more roe away than draw in any wandering fallow

 

[nun_hunter]

I've used a buck grunter call I bought from the USA on fallow. Once to hold a big buck and get him to hang around after I bumped him. Another time I saw a buck with a group of does across a field and called, he called back but as he had the does he was not willing to leave them. Hopefully I'll get to have a better play around with it this season but I suspect as others have said you'll get smaller bucks coming to see whether or not there are some uncovered does with the grunting buck.

 

[Grannysmith]

I ve called good bucks many times in the past.
If they come its wise to move before you get trampled!

 

[243lee]

I think hel be safe as hes putting a seat up this weekend apparently, hes a lucky bar steward, he only picked it up by chance, ground around here is so tightly stitched up iv heard of blokes literally falling out and scrapping over it!

 

[Grannysmith]

Sad state of affairs

 

[243lee]

Certainly is, id love more ground locally, especially to gain knoweledge regarding fallow but im afraid my pockets are far from being deep enough to be in the running around here, although i have more than some so count myself lucky

 

[sikamalc]

Well for a start if the adjoining wood has no stand in in it, and neither does your friends ground, he will have a job enticing any buck over. Rutting stands as a rule are usually well established and bucks generally return to the same area to rut year on year.
The only way to tell is to get onto the area very early in the dark in early October to mid October and stand and listen. If its a still morning and good weather you can hear a buck grunting from a few hundred yards away.

Calling Fallow off a stand can be done, you can sometimes rattle antlers to do this as well. But if there is NO stand in the area, frankly in my opinion you will be wasting your time. You may however find that Bucks will walk across the grounds in mid September on their way to the general area where they intend to rut. But this is a matter of being in the right place at the right time.

 

[devon deer stalker]

I ve called good bucks many times in the past.
If they come its wise to move before you get trampled!

I picked up a call a few years ago from the states, but had limited success, until I tried it on a rutting buck in an adjacent field, I was with @leec6.5 and the only thing stopping it getting to us was a deer fence!
I will try again this year and report back.
edit: as I posted same time as Malc I agree, they return year after year to the same stand, and its difficult to pull them away
Cheers
Richard

 

[sikamalc]

I have called bucks off stands a few times, usually with a wooden call with a plastic tube sticking out. Not sure of the make. In some instances the buck will respond and can come charging over. I had one about 3 years back that had a terrible head on it that came charging over a bank and only stopped some 35yards away when I shouted at it. The client was still shaking 5 minutes after he had downed the buck.

It can be very exciting on the Fallow rut. Having just picked up a further 400 acres recently that is hanging with Fallow and Roe I will be going down early tomorrow to scout it out. Hopefully there will be a stand on there somewhere, but time will tell?

 

[User00014]

I picked up a call a few years ago from the states, but had limited success, until I tried it on a rutting buck in an adjacent field, I was with @leec6.5 and the only thing stopping it getting to us was a deer fence!
I will try again this year and report back.
edit: as I posted same time as Malc I agree, they return year after year to the same stand, and its difficult to pull them away
Cheers
Richard

He was coming and he was angry!

Wonderful experience

 

[Dave881]

This is very interesting as I have just bought a call from a member on here who kindly had one he was willing to part with for an incredible price. I have got a well established stand on one of my permissions but last year 3 more appeared only 200 yards or so from the normal one and the noise was incredible when in those woods. I am hoping I can call them to a place I can get a good view and properly assess what's on the ground, I have had a very large black buck there for a few years now and need to decide if its time to take him (depending on how good the younger bucks are) but it's fairly thick Woods and getting time to properly look at them is a challenge unless I get lucky and the move into one of the fields, I have called roe and muntjac and that's very exciting but never tried with fallow so I am hoping it should be an interesting experience.