I agree the location and cover is the key to hunting mature deer. I also agree by calling you can give the deer your location. However if you limit your calling and if he' s coming let him come, if he stops why would you call...only call when he looks to become uninterested. It only stands to reason if he is stopped and at full alert the chances are much higher of being picked off. The use of calls and scents in the areas you mentioned, provided you know what your doing, what phase the deer are in and where the deer will travel, bed and loop around can be very effective. I have used scents in combination with rattling and had lots of success. I don' t use the scent as an attractant however but rather as a cover to the circling downwind buck. The instructions on a bottle of scent goes completely against my way of hunting. So I place my sent in a half moon around my location " Downwind" , not upwind like they suggest. This helps throw off my scent when the big boys cirlce the ranch. I also use calls in combo with rattling & I never blind call unless rattling! While rattling, calling or scent will never produce 100% of the time, it still remains to experienced hunter a great advantage.

You posed the question about mature deer. I won' t get into numbers, age, etc. but I will say I use the technique faithfully and only harvest mature bucks and consider myself a trophy hunter. So I disagree it can' t be done on mature deer, it ain' t easy but harvesting a mature deer never is!!!!!