20 Best Caliber For Whitetail Deer Hunting (2022 Updated)

I purchased this for my 8 year old grand twins, because the girl loves cats, and they both like board games. Their dad and mom play monopoly a lot, but not with the kids. This says ages 8 and up. It was perfect! The first time we played, the kids didn’t want to stop, but I insisted we take a break after 2 hours.

(Yes, this is a “cat” version of Monopoly, so it does take time, but time flies. ) I can’t wait to visit them again to play the game with them. Highly recommend.

I received this board game within 4 days of ordering it!! I purchased this game as a Christmas gift for my 8 year old granddaughter. I researched the company before ordering. This company is based in Cinncinatti , Ohio.

Every part and piece of this game is made within a small radius of the city. Yes, made in the USA!!! I didn’t have to advance order or wait forever to receive the game. Because this is a Christmas gift, I can’t comment on how much fun it will be.

I did find that there are facts of the various breeds to be discovered while playing. I look forward to giving this gift!.

I bought this for being raised in Chicago and growing up there, for nostalgic reasons. But once I actually seen this game in person I was disappointed in the manufacture of the game. The game pieces could have represented the iconic features in Chicago and there could have been made better choices of the game board itself.

There’s so much to choose from I understand that but with that being said I think the choices made were not good, all could have been better. But like I said because of nostalgic reasons I bought this game and will try to enjoy it as is.

I have never used calls for whitetail, so I don’t have one to Compare this to. BUT…the guys I know who do use calls recommended this one as THE one to get. After checking it out I decided to get one.

With our property I’ve never had a problem getting my tags filled with an edible animal. But never have I been able to encourage a buck (or doe)I’m targeting to come within range. It either happened, or it didn’t.

So to the point. This call arrived quickly, later in the evening as our deliveries usually are from ups. I took maybe an hour and a half that night to watch the videos and practice using it. The next morning I walked out the house and expected to be back by noon, hopefully with a deer.

Well within an hour I saw a nice little buck walking a ridge across from me, something like a 3 by 3. My first thought was as usual to quickly get ahead to set myself up for him if I could, then I remembered my brand new call so quickly I pulled it out from around my neck and gave it a doe blat.

My damned glasses were fogging up so bad I had to stop and wipe them in order to try getting an eye on him through my scope. By the time I got my glasses back on I didn’t see him, so I gave one more doe blat.

I had not cleared my glasses well enough so again they came off, quickly wiped and back on. The moment I looked up the buck came to the top of the ridge I was on maybe 30’ in front of me. He could tell something was not right with what he was looking at and started turning and slowly walking away.

Each time he looked away I raised my rifle, then he’d stop look and I’d stop. He’d continue and I’d raise it as far as I could again. By the time I had it nearly level a much larger buck popped up right where the first one had crested which happened to now be pretty much exactly where I had my rifle pointing.

I quickly dropped my eye to the scope placing my reticle on his neck below his chin and fired. Nice 5 by 5 (or 10 point however you want to count it) dropped in his tracks. Not the largest I’ve harvested from our woods but definitely in the top 3-4.

So, long story to exclaim these bucks were headed in an entirely different direction and I’m absolutely convinced that if I had not had this call they would have continued their course heading further away and it is quite likely (given the distance and the issue I was having with glass) that I would not have had a shot on them.

Instead they came right to me!! What’s phenomenal experience! It is a fact that the extinguisher will be a permanent piece of my hunting equipment from now on! Thank you guys for creating such an amazing device!.

Watched a few YouTube videos on the extinguisher and decided to give it a try. I specifically watched one video of a buck called in with a doe bleat and then a buck grunt to re-enforce the buck to come take a look.

I hunt in an area where the deer are notoriously call shy. I had zero problems calling does in with the fawn bleat. I sat during the rut, watched a doe come through and a 7 pointer follow her trail 10 minutes later, I gave a doe bleat, he looked up but then continued following her trail, I have a buck grunt and he looked again but headed south following the doe’s trail.

I gave one more doe bleat, he stopped in his tracks, turned around and came 20 yards broadside and I tagged him right behind the shoulder only for him to drop 50 yards away. This thing is legit!!!.

To whom is on the fence of buying this product. Get off and buy it! I have purchased the Extinguisher deer call and have personally used it out in the woods over the last weekends. I watched the tutorial videos on how to make the different calls & sounds from the Deer Society app (huge help!!) and practiced.

Took it to the woods and WOW!! I would do a “blind call” and after that it would be 15-20 minutes and bucks would come in (button, spike & 8 pointer). This call works great with the Black Rack system.

Grunt, rattle and grunt again. amazingly useful!! I’m looking to purchase Phase Out face foam.

My second Barnett and very pleased with both. Started with a Jackal which shot great but wanted something more compact for blind hunting. This Whitetail Hunter 2 was a great choice. Very well built and easier to maneuver around in my doghouse blind.

After trying different arrow weight combinations I came up with one that allows me to shoot out to 35 yards for deer (my maximum distance of choice) utilizing just the top two reticle lines of the scope.

Using the stock Headhunter bolts and adding 125gr. field tips and 25gr. lighted nocks for a total of 440gr. brings me in right around 330 fps. Plenty fast enough for most hunting. Top reticle on the Barnett 4×32 five line scope sighted dead on at 20 yards gives me a POI just a bit over 1” low at 5 yards, 1/2” low at 10 yards and just a hair low at 15 yards.

At 25 yards, still using this top line and same POA, I hit just a tad over 1” low. The second reticle line from the top aiming dead on at 30 yards comes in at about 1” high and with the same aim back to dead on at 35 yards.

Basically anything out to 26 yards I aim kill zone top line. Anything between 27 and 35 yards aim kill zone second reticle line. Line 3 4 5 just along for the ride, though I’ll have to shoot em and see just where they fall in.

Come hunting season I’ll swap out the field points for some 125 gr. Schwacker broadheads and I’m ready to rumble. There are a lot of crossbows to choose from out there. Many good ones some not so good.

I and many others think Barnett makes a great line of bows and quality crossbows in this price range especially. Three arrow shot picture shows my last 3 shots holding dead on bulls at 35 yards with second reticle line from top.

Very impressed with the Ghost 425. Extremely fast! The one bolt assembly sounded easy but just remember you have to wiggle the bow part to get it to set inside assembly. Out of the box and assembled the scope’s lighted crosshairs wouldn’t go off at first but after pulling the battery out and putting it back in, it works fine now.

This crossbow requires a Full Grown Man to cock it! The 206lbs draw weight isn’t a joke. I pulled my old 185 will no problems but that extra 21lbs was shocking. Out of the box it shot way low, 8″ low and 5″ to the right at 10 yards.

It took about 10 shots before I was satisfied. Moved it out to 20 and 30 yards and it shot a touch high. That could have been me pulling off but it was consistently high 3 shots each. Really looking forward to bow season to start! The only negative’s I can come up with is, the cost of additional arrows.

55. 00-65. 00 for 3 is a bit more than I think arrows should cost. Granted they send you 3 with the crossbow but I can about guarantee you will lose your arrow shooting a deer as powerful as this crossbow is.

2nd is the placement of the sling eyes. I pulled the sling off my other crossbow and I could barely get the one on the stock side in. It is set on the side of the the stock and not the bottom. That would be the only negative I could find of the crossbow itself.

I purchased this Tink’s just before the weekend of the rut. I walked into my stand, set this out around me on cotton balls on the near low tree limbs. As soon as I climbed my stand and before I could even get set up a buck was passing hot on the scent and standing right in front of me.

Not the buck of my choice but he was fun to watch in his rutting action. I seen 3 bucks that evening and they all had their nose in the air grunting. When arriving back the next morning I set the scent back out, and almost a repeat of the day before happened again.

Not one of the bucks were the same as the previous day. This really made me a believer that putting this out was drawing them in that quickly and the wind was definitely in my favor. I was calling and messaging people about how great this was.

On day three of the hunt the bucks were getting more mature and coming in looking for this non existing doe in heat! The pictures attached show the ending of the greatest weekend of a hunt that I can ever recall.

Thanks Tink’s# 69 for your amazing product.

Have been using Tink’s #69 Doe-in-Rut for 10+ yrs. Left 5 star review 10 yrs ago. Am leaving another this yr. This stuff just plain works. Lots of copycats out there; don’t bother trying them. Squirt some on bottom of my boots hiking in.

Squirt more around tree stand. About 3 hrs later, a nice 8 pt came cruising in, looking for company. Just like 10 yrs ago, he followed scent on my footprints all the way in. He is resting peacefully in my freezer now.

Just like 10 yrs ago. Want meat in the freezer? Use Tink’s #69.

I’ve been using Tinks #69 with the orange hanging scent bombs since I was old enough to hunt solo, so about 15 years now. I picked it up on a whim because I had never tried rut attractants before so figured why not? It can’t hurt anything.

Let me just say, when it comes to Lures and Scents for deer, the market is heavily saturated and people have their favorites. Some like Code Blue. Some like Special Golden Estrous. Some like Buck Bomb.

I haven’t tried the other brands because I haven’t needed to. When I first started buying scents, Tink’s pretty much owned the market. Stores mainly carried this and golden estrous. This stuff works.

Is it going to pull in bucks that aren’t on your property to begin with? No, not in my experience. What it will do is make bucks already in the area curious, and 9 times out of 10, they will come check out the scent.

For example, this morning I had 2 small Bucks walk in 10 minutes apart from each other, and they both followed the trail of scent all the way down the run, and they visited the tree I had a scent bomb hanging from.

Each of these bucks proceeded to making a fresh scrape directly under the tree where the Scent Bomb with Tinks#69 had been hanging. In the end, I had 2 fresh scrapes next to each other, made by two different bucks.

The scrapes were almost touching. Also, even though the wind was swirling, these bucks were completely relaxed and comfortable because they picked up this scent, and it made them feel as if they had nothing to worry about because they thought deer had been in the area already, so they weren’t on alert.

This is generally my experience with Tinks. It will work, as long as you use it properly(don’t go overboard with it, and use it during peak of the rut) and with the right wind conditions, and you’re using it in areas where you know Bucks are traveling.

It’s not a magic bullet. Nothing in hunting ever is. But as long as a buck can smell it, there’s a good chance he’ll come directly to it, when he otherwise might not have shown himself at all.

I bought this about a month ago and have used it around my trial cameras when I go in to check them on my boots as well. Have even put it on trees around my bait piles. Large bucks have gone up to it many times and smelt it and kept feeding and they always come in downwind of the pile like the scent brings them in.

Will for sure be buying some more. Just wish the price was a little cheaper since it uses up so quickly. Only reason for the 4 stars. The white line on the pine is the evercalm scent. You can not see the bait due to the weeds being higher.

Worked like a charm with these big ones and 2 other bachelor groups.

I hunt from opening season to close in Oklahoma and Texas. Have done so my whole life. I used to think deer could see detail really well. Not so, they see movement really well. What they do have is a keen sense of smell.

My son gave me a stick three years ago. When I go out now and forget to rub it on my tree or set at the base with the lid off I feel like the hunt was wasted. I literally can get 10 foot up in my climber and have 15 to 20 deer at my feet that have no clue that this 300 pound predator is watching them.

I have learned so much about deer since I started using this product because they hang with me that I can almost keep up with my son on the hunting. Almost.

We really like using these hanging pucks. They are simple to use. Simply hang and hunt!. Makes bucks curious about another buck being in their territory. I usually hang them in a triangle area around my stand.

I also place them about 30 yards from my stand so I can use them yardage markers for bow hunting.

I like to put these on tree limbs above scrapes. The bucks always come and smell them which gives me a great shot opportunity. They have a very strong smell and last a good amount of time as well. Awesome product!.

The Tinks Buck Pucks are a game changer product during the Rut! They are super easy to use and they last a long time! Just hang a couple around your blind, tree stand, or wherever you’re hunting. Definitely recommend buying.

I have used Tink’s #1 Doe-P Deer Lure during pre, primary, & post Illinois Whitetail deer seasons with equal success. I am a bow hunter and have found that this “deer lure” works effectively as a cover, calming, & curiosity scent.

I use this scent on scent wicks around and in the area of my tree stand. The deer (bucks and does) do not seem alerted and provide me with a good opportunity to harvest a deer. Realizing the sensitivity of a deer’s ability to smell, it its the prudent use of this or any other deer scent/lure or cover scent that makes a difference.

More is not better in all cases. I normally set out 4 scent wicks in the area of my tree stand (all within bow range (15-30 yards max). Two years and 2 eight point bucks tells me it works. A satisfied senior (72 yrs) bow hunter.

Tinks has other products other than the unstoppable Tinks 69. This doe p will help mask the scent of any hunter and provide the area hunting with a calming scents of does. A great product to have handy pre and post rut.

Helps to draw them big boys right in!!!! After there and crazy confused Show them your ARROW!!!

I have used this product in the past ans have noticed a definite calming effect on all of the deer that have been within 100 yards of my stand. I prefer this solid product to the liquids that I have been using for the past 30 years as there is no mess in your pockets or pack.

I highly recommend it.

I love the Conquest scents, they work . First time putting it was during Black powder season in KY. He came in close a ten yard shot

I wanted to try a shifter crossbolt with a brass insert to see if it would improve broadhead accuracy. I switched broadheads from Rage Hypodermic to Rage Hypodermic NC’s. I bought these Witness Bloodsport bolts and a pack of Rage Hypodermic NC’s at the same time at Walmart.

I went home immediately, installed the broadheads on the new bolts, and fired two at 30 yards into my Morrell crossbow broadhead target. The arrows penetrate deep as about 2 inches of the arrow was sticking out the back on the target.

The problem was the brass inserts and broadheads where no longer in the bolt. I never found the two broadheads. Absolutely unacceptable. I didn’t want to lose the third broadhead so I fired one more bolt with a field point to see if the third shot did the same thing.

It did.

Bought this for the price and speed as advertised that’s where the fun ends, lost 2 brass inserts with field tips in the target bag after only 5 or 6 shots, called the company and these are no longer made as such they can’t send the 95 grain inserts and that’s how the call ended.

They even asked me to leave a google review which I will. Now I gotta order inserts or drive an hour to the nearest archery shop. So if you do buy them make sure you glue the inserts in otherwise you will have the same problem.

According to the specs of this arrow, supposedly 325 grs. from all the different sellers. I just received 2 six packs of these arrows, 20 inch Bloodsport Hunters, and the first box of six weighed. 300 grs.

+-1, and the second box of six weighed. 302 grs. +-1. They are not even close to being 325 grs. as advertised. So now to get to the 425 gr. weight I want to shoot out of my crossbow, I need to buy 125 grain broadheads instead of the original 100 grain that I thought I would need.

no big deal, but nice to know true weight of shaft before buying your broadheads. I have not shot them yet to really rate them, but going by other reviews of them with my bow. everyone is saying they fly true.

Hope so.

This arrived in a box 4 times the size of the item and the item itself was masking taped close. It looked like at some point someone has taken the plastic covering off the arrows, so Cabela’s put a single, large, half placed piece of masking tape to secure it back in place.

It already fell off by the time it arrived to us, pulling off the cardboard design on the item. This is the 2nd shipping fail that we received on the same order.

Waited 9 years for an elk tag in Wyoming, after two day’s the reed stretched out and became increasingly more difficult to produce a call. I think a latex glove and a rubber band over a plastic tube would work better than this call.

Very disappointed.

This is an easy to use bugle with very little practice. In fact, sometimes its hard to “back off” and sound less intimidating! It just sounds so good you want to make it scream like the herd bull, but that’s not always the best approach when chasing elk.

I had tried a diffrent Wildgame Innovations deer attractant and had no sucess. I was disapointed with it and already had a bag of acorn crush and was not very hopefull when I tried it but it worked out so much better then Apple crush I tried! For some reaosn the deer here left the apple alone for two weeks then destroyed my bag of acorn crush! I liek to set up two sights with two cameras just too see if they both get activity and both cameras had pics the first dusk I put this out.

I have since bought another bag and more products from Wildgame Innovations I’m excited to try out!.

I put it out and maybe within 24 hours I observed a slight increase in activity. It was spread around a current corn pile.

this stuff works great over corn in the fall and even better over corn with snow on the ground.i have been using it for years with great success…

Ive used all sorts of attractants and cover scents. The smokin sticks add to my arsenal. Its just enough to get the bucks wondering and may give you that needed edge. It also gave some cover to my scent as well.

Hunt wind but this can’t hurt. I love it. Ive had plenty deer come in with their heads up trying to locate.

I bought these based on the reviews. They smell a LOT like typical incense and I don’t know if that is due to the chemical used to make them keep burning/smoking. but what I WILL tell you is I have used them twice now and both times I got busted.

Does blew at me from well over 50 yds. even after these were extinguished. I was well camo’d and used scent cover so this is the only outlying factor. Can’t say I trust em as i’m 0 for 2 using em.

The Tink’s Smokin’ Sticks create a natural deer smell of a Doe-in-heat. Deer seemed curious and attracted to this during the early phases of the rut. Young deer have came right up the stick trying to figure it out.

I’ve been putting in food plots for 6 years now and using a variety of products. Started using Whitetail clover about 4 years ago and decided last year to plant nothing but their clover because the deer LOVE it.

They walk past 20 acres of alfalfa to get to the plots. They are always on the clover plots from spring to freeze up. They eat it down to the ground before winter sets in. Then, the amazing thing is that if we get a mid-winter thaw here in Wisconsin, this stuff starts to push sprouts up and they are out there eating any growth/green that they can get at.

Unbelievable! Anyway, the 30 or so years of research that Whitetail Institute has put into the development of their products has proven to me that they are the ones with the knowledge and know-how to do it right.

NO, I don’t work for them or know anyone there, I’m simply a fan of theirs. So, do yourself a favor. Prep your land properly, plant it, mow it when the weeds start taking over, mow it again later in the season to again take the weeds down before they reseed.

Mow it for the same purpose the second season. before the weeds reseed! Walla, you have a 5 or 6 year food plot that will pull deer to your land! I’ve found that the cost of the seed is the cheapest part of the whole process.

if your sweat equity means anything to you. I tried to cheap-out by buying less expensive products from the Co-op or other companies and had bad results so at the end of the season you step back and say da*n, all that work and this is the result? Buy good seed!.

I put the lime down in the fall of the year and in February I threw the clover seed down along with he fertilizer on the rocky hilly ground in the ozark’s without any tilling I let it frost seed in. By May the clover was up about a foot high and the deer and turkey we’re all over it.

I seeded the clover a lot heaver than recommend, 18 lbs to the acre to give it a great start. And every month I would spray plot start on it and mow it.

In the past few years I have tried 22 different clovers and clover blends, each in their own food plot. I spray GLY 4 and kill off everything and a week later I come in and put on some lime and 19-19-19 fertilizer and then broadcast the seed.

A light drag afterwards and call it done. The germination of this stuff is phenomenal and the deer come to this plot before anything else. They absolutely love it. The highly palatable clover leads to much higher consumption rate has lead to a huge difference in antler growth and big improvement in body condition and a lot more fawns hitting the ground this year.

Where as we use to pretty much get 1 fawn from each doe, we are now mostly twins and a few triplets, and a big part of the reason is this clover. The difference in antler growth is astonishing. Don’t waste time or money on anything else.

Bought a small property mostly wooded area with a little clearing. Have seen a couple deer and other wildlife. Have used other products over the Years and nothing has worked like this. with in two of days of putting this out.

I had 300 pictures on my camera and has brought out some nice bucks from hiding. These deer are not being hunted. On this property little safe hideaway to live there life’s out happily. Hope to see the grow over the next few years.

Saw some reviews on BB 110 and figured I would give it a go. I literally put 2 of the 8lb bags out and also poured a jug of the Old Fashioned and within an hour of leaving, my camera went crazy. This product has pulled in 10 and 14 point bucks that I had no idea were in the area.

All I have been seeing are little 4 and 6 pointers. I am going to buy the 25lb bag and a block now!! This stuff is AMAZING!!.

Dusted a small amount on the trail where bucks and doe visit multiple times per day. Cell cam footage confirms, that deer have avoided the scent for the second day. Smells like cinnamon, licorice, of cloves.

Was marked down at TSC.