Do you rattle?

[iccyman001]

Rattling has always been something that I just can\'t get into.

I\'m always worried that either A) I am scaring away smaller bucks by making myself too big or B) I am scaring them away by the noise alone.

I know some people are very successful with it, but I feel like more of the posts that I read say that it only brings in smaller bucks....if any...



So do you guys rattle?

 

[bowhunter]

I have tried it many times. I can honestly say it worked once. I rattled and an 8 point came running to my tree to receive an arrow . I try it when I am bored and nothing is happening. I don\'t do it at prime time when deer are moving. I usually do it before I leave in the am for a little while or when I first get in during and evening hunt. I have tried it many times when I see a buck that is passing by and not going to come my way. Most of them look then walk on the way they were going. The smaller ones do move off a little faster. If you had a lot of bucks and only a few does around it might work a little better.

:?: :?: :?: I always works on the Primos videos. :?: :?: :?:

 

[iccyman001]

Congrats on that 8 point.


I think my buck to doe ratio is off.
I have a good amount of does compared to bucks.

So I can see them not even caring about my rattling.
I might need to tend my doe population this year


Or just join the primos prostaff

 

[F M]

I agree with you on the buck to doe ratio. I do rattle some but have only had small bucks and one with a messed up rack that needed to be taken out of the herd come in to me. I don\'t put much faith in it.

 

[bnsafe]

ive rattled in one, and i use to spend alot of time out in the woods. he smelled me and i didnt get him. other than that i have never had a deer respond to any of the calls. not sure i scared them, just didnt attract them. now my brother use to say he grunted them in all the time. but i sure never did.

 

[iccyman001]

I tried a grunt tube for the first time last year.


It worked twice. Once I was in a bucks area, hit the grunt and he\'s went nuts.

The other time I saw a good buck feeding up a draw about 500 yards away. I hit the grunt and he just turned and started feeding towards me.


Those were the only two times it worked.

There were also times I was watching deer wall around, hit the grunt, and it didn\'t even phase them.



Has anyone ever tried the can?

 

[mainebrdr]

Don\'t think I do yet, however there are definitely some pops and creaks now and then!

 

[otcWill]

Rattling worked once for me. It was about 1:00pm on an all day sit. I was about 15 years old, bored, and STUPID. I whipped out my antlers and smashed the heck out of em before opening up a candy bar. One of the biggest deer I\'ve ever had in bowrange came in FAST and was under my stand before I could get the Snickers out of my mouth! Needless to say, I was busted. Never worked again though I\'ve tried it quite a bit. The can, on the other hand, is poison on does and rutting bucks. I\'ve called a bunch of deer in with it that would have passed out of bowrange.

 

[timberland]

I\'ve rattled in quite a few (shot a couple) and grunted in as many or more. I would say I average 10-20 \"call ins\" a fall. Last fall had multiple \"call ins\" for several days in a row calling for my wife. I think we had about a ten day stretch where we rattled or grunted a buck in either morning or evening or both. One morning 3 bucks came in at the same time, left and a 3.5 yr old came in after another series and I missed him.
My thoughts to be confident in calling:
1) know there are deer in the area or deer are comfortable traveling to. Too often I used to set up where it was impossible for a buck to smell me, but it put me too far out of his comfort zone, so he didn\'t come in. Just like calling elk or turkeys, closer is better.
2) Some bucks will never come in, most will come sometimes, and some will always come in. (These usually don\'t live long in WI, but there have been bucks that I could call in every time I saw them) The majority of the breeding is done by the most aggressive bucks, the 2-4 yr olds. Most of the bucks I call in are 1.5 yr olds, because there is more of them, they are fairly uneducated, and they are curious/lonely. I feel that calling in a \"mature\" buck is the ultimate in fooling a wise animal with conversation and deception.
3) If you hear a single grunt, IMMEDIATELY GRUNT BACK. Many times bucks are just cruizing looking for a companion, grunting as they go. A buck grunting after a doe will probably not come in, but by giving her the idea that there are other deer in the area by grunting or bleating might just keep her from leaving the woods. I was hunting a bottle neck between two thick swamps one year. There was a resident group of does and fawns the came through every morning. On Nov. 1 a doe was apparently cut from the group by a STUD. By keeping her in vocal contact, she never left the thick area, and the third time through the bottle neck I got a shot.
4) mornings are better by about 10 to 1
5) If you see or hear a buck that is not going to come by you, give it a shot, I\'ve capitalized way more than I chased a buck away.
6) Sometimes they don\'t hear you. But I\'ve had them come over half a mile across a beaver pond.
7) Many times you won\'t hear or see them.

 

[timberland]

Has anyone ever tried the can?

One of my nicest bucks was cruizing about 4:00 pm 200 yds away. As I watched with my bino\'s I bleated with my mouth like the can. He stopped and looked my way. I did it again and he started running toward me. I dropped the binos and grabbed my bow, coming to full draw and bleated again to stop him. At thirty yards slightly quartering to me I double lunged him. The whole event from the first bleat to the shot was less than 5 seconds. Less than it took for you to read it.