Do does grunt?

[Hunter 257W]

I had a deer answer my grunt call for the 1st time Saturday. I've thought I had heard grunts in the woods before but never sure - this deer definitely let out a long grunt in response to my grunting with a call. The reason I am asking about does is that I never could get a look at the deer. It just started coughing/alarm barking at me from about 40-50yds upwind. It kept this up for about a minute, left then came back about 10 minutes later and repeated the same. I only got two very quick glimpses at a shadow passing through the trees and legs going under some thick stuff. The fact that it didn't immediately leave the area makes me think it was a doe or at best a yearling buck. But I had always thought that does didn't grunt. How about it?

 

[BSK]

Does will make very low grunting-like noises when calling to their fawns.

 

[ROVERBOY]

I second what BSK said. I've never heard of does making a buck-like grunt. They'll bleat in differnt tones and volumes.

 

[Brisco Darlin]

Does will make very low grunting-like noises when calling to their fawns.

i saw a doe do that one time to a yearling. it was nosing around a gut pile of a deer i had shot the day before and she made some noises and the yearling trotted back over to her. That was cool to witness.

 

[Born and Raised]

They most certainly do. On opening day of archery this year I had a doe come grunting in response to a fawn bleat. It was a lot softer than what you normally hear from a grunt call.

 

[bowriter]

They grunt, they bleat, they mew, they click, they make a host of sounds, most of which we never hear or understand.

 

[Hunter 257W]

Hmmmm, well this grunt was a nice long loud grunt. I just thought it was odd that a buck would hang around that long if it suspected something was wrong. Guess I'll never know for sure.

 

[in the dog house]

Yup what BSK said, I heard 2 different does do it this year in early bow season.