I use a rattling bag and it works fine for me. I start my sequence out by a few grunts. I shortly follow those up by VERY LIGHTLY rolling the bag around to imitate the sound of tines tickling each other. I pause for 5 seconds and make it sound like 2 bucks going at it. I don't believe that deer come in the the actual banging of the horns, so i mainly just try to make the bag sound like the tines are always locked together and are trying to gain position while fighting the other buck. I will however throw in a few loud bangs in the middle. I will only rattle for about 30to 45 seconds while holding the a grunt tube with my mouth and occasionly grunting. I then stand up andwait for the action. 45 minutes later I will follow it up with some morerattlingif I have not seen anything.

I started rattling 2 years ago with great success. My first time out I rattled in a small 8 pointer that I had been seeing all year long. The next morning in the same stand I rattled in a total of 8 bucks. 3 of which were shooters. However the spot I was in allowed the deer to stand on the fingers running off of a ridge and search for the bucks causing the fight.All 5 immature deer came in close enough for a shot, buttheclosest any of the mature bucks came in was 60 yards.

I modified my approach for last year. I was set up in a funnel after only seeing one small fork that came to my rattling from across and cut soybean field. I sat up one morning early in November in a funnel, with a great bedding area to the south of me about 150 yards. My stand position allowed that if a deer wanted to see what was causing the rattling it was going to have to come within 30 yards. In the first 15 minutes of light I had 3 bucks (2 forks and asmall 6 comeright to my stand. 10 minutes later I rattled again and here camea 9 pointer right off the trail of the bedding area.A 17 yard shot and a short track job later he was on the ground. After looking over some picturesfrom last year I realized he wasthe same 8 pointer and thefirst deer I had ever rattled in from the previous year.

It also helps if you have a partner thatcan rattle for you and set up 50-100 yards down the trail from where you expect the deer to come. That way when a buck comes to investigate he will be searching for his future opponentsfarther down the trail instead of focusing around your stand site.The bucks will also try to come in downwind, so a good wind and proper scent control is a must.

Hope this helpsand good luck, some of the most exciting hunts I've had were when rattling was involved.