Rattling doesn' t work...............at least not as well as a sound more common to the woods.

Understanding why rattling would draw a buck in will make you instantly realize that your woods most likely is not the place to rattle. For bucks to be fighting over does to breed with the ratio of buck to doe has to be very low. Most any woods today not vigorously managed will have a very high doe to buck ratio and therefore enough chicks for every buck in the woods to get some........no matter how sad their genetics or racks are.

Rattling in the woods where bucks don' t have to compete for breeding is nothing more then a foreign noise..........they never hear it and even if they did why would they care enough to go fight when they can just go the other way and bone the 5 does in the next pine row??

I have been in the woods for 16 years and NEVER seen 2 bucks locked up in battle over breeding rights.........I do have footage of 2 bucks locked up in my back yard less then 40 yards off my deck and the clicks and cracks of their antlers could barely even be heard. Rattling loud enough for a deer up to 100 yards to hear is so unrealistic it is laughable.

Having said all that...........deer are VERY curious animals and will come and inspect noises that they can' t see the cause of.......bleat cans and grunts are great for this as they offer a well known noise to the deer but no visual confirmation. They figure if a deer is making the noise how dangerous can it be over there?? They come to check things out and you take aim. Why use a sound that deer are not used to hearing??

Deer hear loud banging rattling every 15 minutes about as often as they hear Polka music and I' m not about to blast that from my stand either

I am not saying people haven' t gotten reponses from deer with a rattle.......IMO the response is purely curiousity 99% of the time and you would have gotten the same response from any lure that day on that deer.