Youth Deer Call Seminar Makes Lots Of Noise

COURTESY PHOTO Local youth get personal instructions how to assemble and use their own deer call from Brad Harris, world champion game caller. Thirty youth attended the recent seminar hosted by Young Outdoorsmen United.
COURTESY PHOTO Local youth get personal instructions how to assemble and use their own deer call from Brad Harris, world champion game caller. Thirty youth attended the recent seminar hosted by Young Outdoorsmen United.

A herd of area youth gathered together last week to learn the language of white-tail deer, plus how to make and operate a deer call to imitate sounds to draw them closer. The event was sponsored by the local outdoor organization, Young Outdoorsmen United.

Nineteen boys and 11 girls were presented with the call components and then given assembly instructions by Brad Harris, All-Around Game Call World Champion and Realtree Senior Pro staff member. The youth sanded, fitted, glued and screwed the pieces together to form the calls.

Harris gave them directions how to produce realistic sounds and the youth lit up the room with a ruckus no match for a summer night with croaking frogs, chirping crickets and buzzing locust. With little practice the students easily mastered grunting deer sounds and transferred the room into a pen full of crooning deer.

"I'm gonna try this tonight when I get home," said Katelyn Ferdig, of Anderson. "I'm sure it will work."

While gluing the wooden components together, Logan Harriman, of Rocky Comfort eagerly confirmed his enthusiasm, "I wish deer season was here now!"

Young Outdoorsmen United hosted the event in cooperation with The Cornerstone Bank, Brad Harris Outdoors and Pastor Frank Ward, of Faith Baptist Church.

Sports on 09/04/2014