I am not trying to hijack your post, but I have another idea for people to try. Some of you may have tried it already. I had a guy show me how to do it. It is the same principal as the primos puppet show, but it is a rattling puppet show.

You take you favorite rattlingantlers and drill holes in the bases, then you run rope, something lightweight, but heavy duty. Each antler get a seperate rope. Come up about two feet and then tie them together with a long piece of rope.

When you are in your stand hang on to the rope and lower the antlers to the ground. If you pull them up of the ground and keep the rope tight all you have to do is just bounce the up and down a little bit to get the sound of bucks messing around. If you lift them up about 5 feet and drop them you get the big crash you here at the start of a fight. Another great thing to do with them is to toss them out in front of you and the drag them back through the leaves while they are clanking together. It makes for a very realistic fighting noise. My favorite part about them is they are not in the tree with you. If you are rattling and you see something coming just let go of the rope. You don't have put the antlers away and get your bow and all that. You can even do it with one hand and have your bow in the other.

It takes a little practice, but it does make using antlers to rattle with a lot easier, and I think more effective.

Dan