RE: rattling
I rattled in 3 bucks this morning, but none of them were big. One was a skinny racked 6 pointer. One was a forkhorn with decent mass. The last one was messed up, nothing on one side but 4 points on the other coming out from the base and going in all directions. I was rattling hard for about 30 seconds with some decent sized 4 point antlers(different sized ones).
Like chris said, be ready, because they can come right in from any direction.