Henson, I hit it again this morning, I really wanna say doing a short loud rattle around 830 has been working, and Ive seen deer shortly after doing so.. But I may also not be seeing whos making the scrape as everyone states they might circle around me. Winds been very minimal, this morning shortly after rattling, 3 does came in (small like 100# each) They came within 10 yards and one was pretty intrested in me, stomped a few times, then passed by slowly. I was shakin in my boots lol. 30 min after that I saw a silhouette of a deer go running past, No idea what it was doing or if it were a buck.. Grunted and it never stoped. Im gunna go again tonight, Ill try not calling at all. I think pressure is very minimal, but I do hear some muzzel loaders goin off this past week
Update for this evening: Got out there, saw more deer, a nice doe w/ no shot. And then an older deer with some bunk genes, Huge 4 pt lol, I grunted at him, he fluffed right up and tore a cedar tree to shreds, but never gave me a shot, went sulking down past me in the woods. Deer showed up in the middle of the day 4-5 o clock, hot n windy out 65 deg. But a storm hit tonight at 930. Maybe that had them moving. In total Ive seen 8 today in the same spot. Going to relocate for sat, get more on their trail I saw them all migrate on today
Also climbed higher tonight, might be more pressure than I thought, none looked at me at all, and I got away with a few stupid moves