Rattling
#1
Fork Horn
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: NC
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Rattling
This will be the 1st year I deer hunt and bow hunt. Looking for all the knowledge and help I can get. Which is better, the rattle bags or the antlers? Which calls work for the Virginia area? I am looking and would like your opinions. Thanks
#2
RE: Rattling
Doesn't matter if your in VA, SC, ME to CA, soft grunts and contacts calls will work, not every time but they will work.
Rattling? Keepin it light, it really doesn't matter between rattle bags and antlers but for serious rattling, nothing beats the sound of real antlers.
Rattling? Keepin it light, it really doesn't matter between rattle bags and antlers but for serious rattling, nothing beats the sound of real antlers.
#3
RE: Rattling
Which is better, the rattle bags or the antlers?
#4
RE: Rattling
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
Doesn't matter if your in VA, SC, ME to CA, soft grunts and contacts calls will work, not every time but they will work.
Rattling? Keepin it light, it really doesn't matter between rattle bags and antlers but for serious rattling, nothing beats the sound of real antlers.
Doesn't matter if your in VA, SC, ME to CA, soft grunts and contacts calls will work, not every time but they will work.
Rattling? Keepin it light, it really doesn't matter between rattle bags and antlers but for serious rattling, nothing beats the sound of real antlers.
#5
RE: Rattling
Depending upon the area of VA in which you plan to hunt, be careful with the rattling. Many VA areas have a very very poor doe to buck ratio causing there to be very little competition for does. Namely, the bucks don't have to go too far to chase does as they are all over. That being said, rattling in these instances likely won't get the bucks attention because they don't feel as though their territory is being impeded upon because they won't be losing any does.
#7
RE: Rattling
I rattle using real horns,have tried the bags without much luck. To be honest i have only killed 3 deer by rattling, but that is three deer that i wouldnt have killed. Where i hunt here in Arkansas there are tons of does, so i dont think rattling is as effective as some other parts of the country, but i do it anyway/.