Roe calling??

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Last year I went out one or two evenings to try calling roe but it was a
total disaster. Only the midges gained anything. However, I did some more
research recently and gather the evening is NOT the time to attempt to call
roe, I need to go between late morning and mid afternoon (when,
coincidently, the midge factor is at its lowest).

Am I right in thinking that mid July to mid August is the best period?

It is one solid impenitrable mass of green up here, but I did see four roe
yesterday around midday when I was driving around on the quad.

Derry

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John <john.p.young*removethislittlebit*@ntlworld.com> wrote in
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> Derry Argue wrote:
>> Last year I went out one or two evenings to try calling roe but it
>> was a total disaster. Only the midges gained anything. However, I did
>> some more research recently and gather the evening is NOT the time to
>> attempt to call roe, I need to go between late morning and mid
>> afternoon (when, coincidently, the midge factor is at its lowest).
>>
>> Am I right in thinking that mid July to mid August is the best
>> period?
>>
>> It is one solid impenitrable mass of green up here, but I did see
>> four roe yesterday around midday when I was driving around on the
>> quad.
>>
>> Derry
>>
>
> In my experience, I find results can vary dramatically.
>
> The best times: This depends upon the type of land and the comings
> and goings of the people who use the land. For example, it's of little
> use trying to call roe, in the middle of a corn field at harvest time
> during the day. Again, just after silage has been cut, calling is less
> effective. Late morning is great in woodland that has little or no
> users and on woodland verges in lonely roe type places. You need to
> think about disturbance and the comings and goings of man. In saying
> that Roe are expert at understanding us humans and will put up with a
> massive amount of NORMAL disturbance but one odd sound, just out of
> place and the roe will be gone.
>
> The Best weather: Hot and humid in my experience. Just before a
> thunder storm during late July, even light rain in hot weather. This
> combination of humidity and heat seems to get the roes juices going.
>
> The most important thing of all, and if you forget it your chips are
> up! The rut must be on BEFORE you start calling roe, if it isn't then
> your wasting your time and just educating the deer.
> Next is once you call, wait and wait and wait. I have had bucks
> following me in the woods! simply because I didn't wait. Sometimes it
> takes a long while before a paired buck can get away from his doe and
> in the case of a single none paired buck, he might have to travel some
> distance before he gets to you, it all takes time but remember that
> roe have excellent directional hearing and once you have their
> attention they can find your exact position with ease.
>
> The other thing is wind, don't forget what your actually doing. Your
> trying to get a buck to come to you, thinking there is a lovely young
> lass waiting for his attention, he just might want to scent to make
> sure a bigger buck hasn't found the lass first!!!
> Another point is that the doe can be very territorial at the rut, she
> might follow the call to shoo off any competition with her buck in
> tow.
>
> Some of the best places to practice calling are "coffee bars", this is
> an area where lesser bucks will gather, buck who have yet to rut and
> may never rut. Areas like this will almost always produce good results
> when calling.
>
> Some other tips for you! If your using a hight seat, try and get a
> kind lady to give you some of her urine when her time of the month
> arrives (not sure how else I could say that). This stuff is
> dynamite!!! tip it under the high seat (works for reds too). Give a
> few calls and wait!
>
> Anyway, good luck, time for my dinner
>
> John
>

Thanks, John. Glad you mentioned high seats. I'd much prefer to be in one
for the all round vision.

As for disturbance, I doubt whether the roe on my ground see people much as
it is undisturbed. But that is not saying they are tame!

A good place to try calling would be next to the A9 at Inverness! I kid you
not! Sit on the nak with your back to the road and call away. Lots of roe
where the old land fill site used to be.

But I will leave experimentation for another couple of weeks at least.

(Talk about hot and humid. I could hatch eggs in this heat!).

Derry

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"Michael Roberts" <mail@dogcountrysports.co.uk> wrote in
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> I've read in the past that some people suggest you try it out on
> someone else's ground so if you mess it up, you don't educate your own
> deer - that's just about one of the most selfish and self centred
> things to do.

Around here, I'd practice on the east side of the A9 at Inverness, site of
the old council land fill site, if I did not have my own ground. There are
roe in there (I've seen them both from the road and from the train) and I
am pretty sure there will be no stalking as it is just too near the town!

Anyway, I am not getting roe here without calling so might give it a try.

Derry