Rat-tailed Combs-An Effective Deer Call. Info.

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Long ago and far away on the UP of MI, hunters used long, big, rat-tailed combs to call deer. They ran their fingers down the teeth and it would at times, attract deer. They did not know why it worked, they just knew it did.

Many years later and a lot closer to us, Jerry Peterson and our own Gary Cook developed a deer call that sounded a great deal like the comb. Of course it was much more advanced and the tone was adjustable. The principle was the same. It had a glottal pulse. In other werds...it clicked.

Your info post for the day.
 
That clicking sound is the one tone that has not been perfected. Woods wise dude told me he wished he could produce it accurately.
 
Deer are like people and different bucks have different tones when they grunt/click/snort wheeze, etc. I dont think the tone is nearly as important as finding the right buck to hear it when trying to call one in!
 
During November, I hear deer "clicking" more than any other deer sound--probably the majority of the times I am in the stand during November, usually from the thickest thicket around. I have never heard it after November 30, though.

Sometimes I hear grunting, but 9.8 times out of ten, the grunts occur every 20 or 30 minutes exactly, like clockwork, from the exact same spot, with the exact same tone and pattern, for 3-4 hours straight. Those are the days I wish I had a bullhorn to tell the other hunter to wise up and shut up before he clears every deer off the entire WMA.

How far do you think the glottal pulse will carry and still be audible to the human ear under still, clear, "bluebird day" conditions?
 
How far do you think the glottal pulse will carry and still be audible to the human ear under still, clear, "bluebird day" conditions?

To the human ear, maybe 50-yards max. To a deer, I have no idea but quite a ways. I have heard it elk cows and calves way more than in deer.

It is a tremendous call for does and just average for bucks. But it is absolute dy-no=mite on elk.
 
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