Thanks guys...and VERY good week for me!


When I rattle, I start with grunting a few times..usually try to make it sound like an older deer taking on a younger deer. Then I crash the bag a couple times.....then slow down...couple ticks for a few moments...then crash them again for a few seconds. After I'm done..I grunt a few timesshowing the older buck "won."

It's awesome after a minute or two of doing this...then seeing deer pop out of tree lines looking for the action. I've seen it attract fawns...all sorts of bucks...and big does too.

Something happened over the course of the past week...got the bucks up and moving like crazy. It's not the temps, in my opinion (mid-upper 50's when I saw them moving the most). Not sure what...but there are rubs and scrapes everywhere now..when last Sunday there was little to be seen.

For firearm season (I don't use my shotgun anymore...I use my muzzleloader only), I'll just try to get a doe or two. I can take a couple more antlerless deer up in LaGrange..and 1 in Adams. IF a large buck presented itself...it would be very hard to not take him down (errrr...I mean my brother shoot him and tag him...ah huh huh). Yeah..it's not "right"...but the 1 buck limit studies have shown absolutely NO effect on buck size or numbers so far...so it's not like I'm shooting a whale...or an endangered species.