I
purchased the Fatal Approach Grunt Call shortly after the 2013 deer season came
to a close. I was immediately blown away by the simple construction and the beauty
of the call. It looked like a show piece
for display. The grunt call comes in
many different domestic or exotic hardwoods.
I chose the white oak burl and it looks great.
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My first impressions of the grunt are as
follows.
1.
It has a very low breaking point. It produces a nice low sounding grunt with
very little pressure. This lets the
hunter use a wider range of tones than any other call I’ve found on the
market.
2.
The call is two pieces with a long barrel. You will not have to worry about losing small
mouth pieces and other parts of the call.
I purchased a very popular call at the beginning of last deer season and
the first hunt I pulled it out of my jacket before first light and found the
mouth piece missing (major bummer).
3.
Most calls that give you the low end grunt will
not produce a good loud challenge tone without adjustment. The Fatal Approach Grunt nails both ends of
the spectrum with no adjusting which is amazing to me.
4.
This grunt call would make a great gift. If you have a Hunter in the family that’s
hard to buy for when it comes to Christmas or birthdays then they will be
all smiles when he or she opens this box.
After having the call for a few
months I sent an email to Brian Keahey at Fatal Approach describing my thoughts
on the call and here is an excerpt from his reply.
“Like you, I have bought my fair
share of grunt calls in the past. So when I began designing this call, I knew
what I wanted the final product to sound like. I wanted a very easy blowing
call that would allow you to gently ease into the call without over-amplifying
the sound. At the same time, the call had to be able to produce sufficient
volume and range to be effective from a distance. From my experience, bucks
produce grunts that are not as deeply toned as those produced by most
commercially available grunt calls. To me, the grunts produced by younger bucks
seem to be the most effective at challenging mature deer. Our grunt call was
designed around both of these observations. I agree that many grunt calls have
an excessive number of parts. I wanted to use as few parts as possible,
including a one piece tone board. The use of fewer parts adds to the overall
durability of the call as well.”
Brian is a lot better with the
technical terms than me, but I agree with his mission in building this
call. Fatal Approach hit the ball out of
the park with this grunt call.
Click on the above picture to visit the Fatal Approach web site.
Thanks
Shelby Byrd
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