Buck Snort???????

[HARDWAY78]

This is kind of off topic, but it happened to me yesterday. Had a doe come in about 10 yards from me and snorted. I thought I was busted but she looked behind her at my decoy, freaked out and bolted snorting the whole way. About 5 minutes later she came back on the other side of, hid behind a tree and juat stared at the decoy snorting and stomping. She did this for about 5 minutes, then she bolted again snorting. 10 minutes roll by and she comes back, behind me this time about 10 yards away with another doe behind her. She stares for about 5 more minutes, then she starts snorting and stomping again. The other deer bolts. Original doe stomps and snorts for a couple more minutes and finally had had enough.

I go up to the lil mac decoy and it has that 'new plastic' smell. Do ya'll know what that was all about?

[flywise]

yep they all snort

[HillCountryHoyt]

I have also seen / heard Bucks Snort/Blow. It is not just a Doe "thang"...

[Bleu]

Same thing to me. And I KNOW the answer. Just surprised how many hunters think that just because they heard a deer snort , it was an old doe.

Ha, I guess I did answer a question you didn't ask. I've never heard someone say "snort" when referring to them "blowing". I think of snort, wheeze and blow all as different noises. Maybe that's for another thread.

[str8shooter]

Bucks definitely snort (or blow as my NE Texas buddies call it). Been busted by more than once. Most recently with my daughter. A nice (but not legal) six winded us but couldn't see us up in the tree. Snorted like crazy, then laid down in the brush about 20 yards behind us. We watched him lay there and blow for about 30 minutes. Then he got up and left the way he came.

[chrisgunguy]

I watched a buck snort at this Sunday. May even be on video....

[GarGuy]

Meeeeeooooooowwwwwww

[offthemap]

Steve, I've always believed that a buck can grunt and snort/wheeze when they are acting agressively and they can (but rarely do) "blow" as a doe will do when they are alarmed.

I was taught that they were 3 different sounds and I have heard a mature buck grunt and snort/wheeze but i've only heard a young buck "blow".

I think it's ask a scientist time..

[FtHoodBowHunter]

I have had bucks snort many times.