Rattling For Bucks- The Real Results

I have read numerous articles on the art of rattling for whitetail deer. “bang them horns as loud as you can” “just click the tines together” or “rattle every 5 minutes.” Sometimes you have to take the fact that magazines have to write something that sells.

In this article I want to shed real light on what has worked for me and also share some information about a study done by Dr.Mickey Hellickson.

This 3-year study was conducted on the 7,800-acre Welder Wildlife Foundation Refuge in south Texas.

In order to observe bucks when rattling, towers were scattered about the refuge. One person would rattle from the stand while the other person would observe from the towers.

The rattling sequence was long (3 minutes) and short (1 minute)loud and soft, during the pre-rut, rut and post-rut periods.

The results were this: 171 rattling sequences with 111 bucks responding. That is a 65% response rate. Pretty darn good. Just one problem though.

The guy on the ground only saw 33% of the bucks that responded. The reason is that all the other bucks circled and never came in far enough.

So how do we get them to bucks to come closer? The study sheds light on this also.

For example, he found that loud rattling brought in three times as many bucks as soft rattling. Early morning is best, peak rut is best, less wind is best, cool temperatures are best, and 75% or more cloud cover is best.

From my personal observation, I think that loud rattling does work better for one reason. You are reaching more deer. Also when it is calm, the sound will travel in all directions.

The length of time rattling does not seem to matter. Some bucks will come right away and others after several sequences of rattling.

The very best times to rattle are during the peak of the rut for younger bucks. For mature bucks, rattling has a few different rules.

One more thing that will help you succeed with rattling is a strategy that I use involving decoys.

I encourage you to read the whole article by Dr.Dave Samuel and find how you can use other strategies in conjuction with rattling to bag your next buck.

By: todd Janssen

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