Thread: Callers for fallow deer?

Hi everyone just wondering what peoples thoughts are regarding fallow deer calls? What do you use, do you think they are worth it, is something like an AJ electronic caller worth the money? From what I’ve read and seen they can hold up in some pretty tight stuff and not budge, so does I caller get them out? Hoping to get a buck this year so wondering if this would be a worthy investment
Cheers thanks

Supply issues with AJ callers if buying new.

I have read that only satellite bucks will come into a call, the master bucks will not, they stay to defend their territory.

Yea wasting your time trying to call fallow especially if you want a good buck, they work different than Reds and basically make themselves a little love pad and call the girls to them, very very rare for them to move from their rutting pad, you would have to get very very close for them to take any kind of interest and at that distance you would have to be a very good caller if you werent to arouse their suspicions and would be better off just sneaking in on them quietly, they don't wander round rounding up ladies like a red does so couldnt care less if you call untill you're blue in the face

+1 on what Ryan said have tried a caller b4 all it does is take ur element of surprise away as they soon will spot u when u call

Cheers thanks for the advice and saving some coin cheers

In my limited experience the electronic callers can work very well
I had a departing buck turn around to the call
Sprint 200m directly at us and then use the wind to cut our scent at only about 50m
We could have easily shot him

But we didn't because I had shot an equally sized buck only 1 hour before
Witnessed and videoed by a fallow ( unintentional pun ) member
I felt guilty that I didn't let him shoot it at the time because I didn't want to abuse the private land access by shooting two good bucks in a day
He shot a good red stag ( 14 points I recall but not huge ) the very next morning

So that is my experience with fallow callers

Called in and shot bucks the last three ruts no wall hangers use a ue boom with buck call on phone

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agree with the no calling method, just listen in and make your move from there.

I guess the callers are okay if you are not after a massive trophy animal. Ive managed to attract the attention of does with short grunt calls, which is what I am after anyway since I like going for the meat.

Used it on a mob of fallow deer out on a paddock and one of the hinds came running in from 300m. The buck didn't care at all.

Originally Posted by JaSa

Used it on a mob of fallow deer out on a paddock and one of the hinds came running in from 300m. The buck didn't care at all.

She must have been a dirty girl

Turkey calls is where it’s at for dirty girls !

Cool, all interesting. I don't know much about Deer.

Couple of years ago I got a dry throat cough in the middle of a hunt up near wangavegas, couldn't stop coughing to the disgust of the guy I was with. Half a dozen hinds came out of the bush to see what was going on (only 125m away).