White Tailed deer Sounds. What have you heard?

What sounds have you heard from a White Tail?

  • I've only heard them snort at me

    Votes: 58 50.0%

  • I've heard a buck grunt softly as he walked

    Votes: 45 38.8%

  • I've heard a doe in heat call

    Votes: 15 12.9%

  • I've heard a doe bleat

    Votes: 41 35.3%

  • I've heard a fawn call to it's mother

    Votes: 35 30.2%

  • I've heard a buck calling agressively

    Votes: 18 15.5%

  • I've heard a doe stamp it's feet to try and get me to move

    Votes: 75 64.7%

  • I've heard a doe walking purposely making noise.

    Votes: 25 21.6%

  • Holy crap, I've heard none of this stuff

    Votes: 5 4.3%

  • Yep, i've heard it all, and if more, please answer below

    Votes: 19 16.4%
  • Total voters
    116
Big bucks rarely snort, they just spin around and leave if they sense danger. No warning for other deer.

Although I will never forget the snort Weezer I heard one night when rattling and grunting. He was about 50 yards away I think in the thick stuff heading down wind. He snort weezed when I grunted then sounded like he was scraping the ground then walked another 40 yards and got my scent and gone!
 
The reason I said that it's a clearing of their nose of scent, is that I watched an old hound find a bear track. He sniffed a bit, then blew, then sniffed some more, and repeated several times. He eventually took the track, but was very hesitant.
Up to that time I too thought the sound was just an alarm, clearly it functions as both.
Also I've noticed that deer exposed to humans on a regular basis don't snort as loudly, or as many times usually, as deer way back in the boonies.
When I hunted deer that rarely saw humans, I'd get snorted at not once, but seven or eight times. The deer would still be snorting even several hundred yards away. (I'd be thinking "enough already!" Shut the hell up)
 
Do bucks snort? Can't say for sure, because most of the time when you're snorted at, all you see is a big white butt going away.
For sure I can't remember ever positively hearing a buck do the snorting. Definitely does do though, and fawns. I had a doe stand in front of me and snort three times standing before she left. She didn't run either!
She let out a loud snort, then sniffed the air a bit, snorted again, and repeated.
Finally figuring out something was not right, she quietly left.
 
Rctic said:
To me it sounds like a big sneeze. Not what I am hearing in the vid
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powdermaker said:
The spotted deer danger call in the video is a vocalization. I believe Whitetail deer are actually blowing air out their nose very rapidly to make their danger call. It could be that they are trying to smell danger? Yes, this is why some people refer to it as a snort.
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colonel3006 said:
9.3mauser said:
I've heard both does and young bucks make a call that sounds very similar to the chital in the video ( and when you hear that it means you're busted). Is that what everybody is referring to as a snort?

I've haven't yet heard a big buck make that sound though.

Thats quite a squeal. Lol Alot different than A whitetail and I've unfortunately heard too many whitetail snorts.
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Alright, I'll try to hit the bush over Christmas with a camera and get some video of a whitetail making the sound I'm talking about. Definitely a vocalization, similar, but deeper and raspier than the deer in the video.
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What you are referring to as a "snort" would more accurately be called "blowing." It is solely an alarm sound... deer will often stand alert while blowing repeatedly, then may prance off and blow as they depart. Bucks do snort and snort wheeze and have numerous grunts that convey different messages. I generally mix in snort wheezes and tending grunts during rattling sequences. I have rattled and called in dozens of bucks over the years. I have one little overgrown clearing in a valley that I call "The Colosseum." I have watched bucks battling in that location for decades. On one frosty morning I watched three separate battles going on simultaneously.
 
ive heard the buck squeal like a wild pig . it was during the rut caught a glance of him chasing a doe .he was hot on her heels .
 
I've heard plenty.............thump thump thump thumps with the mulies trawtt'in awf in the woods.
One thing I know fur sirtain, they gartzs way better'n eyes than moi.
 
After years of bow hunting I have seen and heard about everything imaginable. I've rattled and grunted them in. I've mewed them to stop them for a shot and discovered a bunch of sounds to keep them from getting spooked when I thought I was busted.
I thought I'd heard it all til last year.
A buddy was tracking a buck he had put a poor hit on and swears it "screamed" at him when he jumped it from it's bed.
I wasn't there and can't verify it, but I also can't see him making it up. It's a new one for me...never had a deer scream at me before.
 
I've had several mule bucks and WT bucks fighting in front of me........watched for a while and the largest one got to have a truck ride.Had deer on many occasions make a low monotone blat barely audible to the human ear within mere feet of me in dense fog or heavy snow storms. They rarely bleat when shot but I have seen this and didn't like it.
 
hoytcanon said:
What you are referring to as a "snort" would more accurately be called "blowing." It is solely an alarm sound... deer will often stand alert while blowing repeatedly, then may prance off and blow as they depart. Bucks do snort and snort wheeze and have numerous grunts that convey different messages. I generally mix in snort wheezes and tending grunts during rattling sequences. I have rattled and called in dozens of bucks over the years. I have one little overgrown clearing in a valley that I call "The Colosseum." I have watched bucks battling in that location for decades. On one frosty morning I watched three separate battles going on simultaneously.
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I guess we will have to disagree on the snort, what I've seen, and I guarantee I have seen and heard at least as many as you have, tells me a different story. It's clearly used to clear their noses, if you watch them do it, they always sniff the air right after a session.
 
Someone mentioned wounded deer. Gawd they can make awful noises. A pitiful and loud moaning bleat sound that makes you feel horrible, was the result then one of our guys misjudged his range and shot high, also hitting too far back. We surrounded the area and I went in (tracking) to flush it out. Ended up I shot it dead from 50 feet with the 30-30. It was just standing waiting to die.

The memory of that still haunts me. Shot placement is critical.
 
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