Larry Reece was desperate. With shooting light quickly fading and a "decent" buck almost within range (at least it was before it disappeared into a pine plantation), he glanced at the grunt tube in his hand.
The 57-year-old deer hunter from Benton, Miss., considered the little gadget long on hype and short on magic. He'd never had a deer respond to it. In fact, he wondered why he even bothered taking the call to the woods.
Yet with only minutes of daylight remaining, he figured he had nothing to lose by giving it a whirl. And moments later, Randy Reece, who was hunting less than a couple hundred yards from Larry, saw fire leap from his older brother's muzzleloader.
It came as no surprise when Randy heard Larry's voice spill out of the two-way radio. He'd shot a nice buck, and he was sure that it had been hit hard. But the deer had disappeared before he could stuff another chunk of lead down the barrel and take a follow-up shot.
"I mig...