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Rattling isn't the best tactic for low buck to doe ratios. Hunting these areas are hard. No calls, no rattling, no scents, no nothing. Scouting year round, taking inventory of properties, not overhunting a particular area, staying mobile, pattern the deer movement. Intimate knowledge of you hunting area. You need to locate as many buck bedding areas, never stop scouting and add to them over a lifetime. You need to lower your standards in the northeast. Its not a heavily cropped part of the U.S. deer numbers and herd qualities are nothing like you see in indiana, ohio, iowa. deep snow in the winter hurts the pop as well when the snowpack crusts over the predators have the advantage and the herd suffers. There is no magic bullet that works everytime. Scout, scout, scout. Find doe bedding areas, find feeding areas, find buck bedding areas. Follow deer trails in winter with gps, mark all these areas. The one constant is change. Every year is different, every deer has there own personality. The bedding areas never change. They bed there year after year for a reason, security, wind currents, escape routes, foods ect. Alot of the northeast is high pressure as well. September and october bowhunting is your best shot before the masses come out for rifle season.