i've had very good sucess using calls and rattiling. i use my calls every time i go into the woods. sometimes they work but other times they don't but then agian sometimes i see deer and sometimes i don't it depends really on how the deer feel if jumpy and hunted hard problay won't work but if there is low hunting persure then i feel it will up ur odds. as far as scents no real luck there but i did try doc's deer scents and had a doe come right into it this year i think it was called sweet dreams or dismes something like that but that was in the the eraly part of oct.