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Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« on: November 07, 2014, 01:04:18 PM »
Tomorrow morn I'll be giving it the first shot of the year. I am not expecting a lot... the temps will be warm, it may be windy... and its a little early. But Im ready to give it a try. Ive got a 12 year old kid, his dad and my girlfriend all in tow... and hope that one of us spies one sneaking in!

Now... Come Monday the weather is going to make a big change here in Central Montana... sposed to be 23 for a high, then 13 for a high on Tuesday with 2-12 inches of snow depending on where you are where the storm hits the hardest... me thinks later next week the whitetail hunting might get real good... and I cant rule out the random mulie where Im hunting!

Whatchya doin for rattling this year??
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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2014, 01:11:22 PM »
Taking up my cousin, and I'm rattling-calling for him sense my tag is already filled on a 4 by 4.  I'll get behind him in my blind about 80 yards, and let her rip! I like to use a blind because it conceals my hand and antler movements while I'm calling. Remember they will always circle downwind before coming in! GOOD LUCK
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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2014, 01:22:42 PM »
:fire.:

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2014, 03:11:26 PM »
My son will be rattling for me this weekend. He already filled his Idaho tag so I have a designated caller!-looking forward to it-I have had my best luck from now till about the 15th in north idaho

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2014, 05:12:43 PM »
The rut is kicking in.

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2014, 05:48:12 PM »
I'm pretty well hooked on rattling, got 3 niceo nes to come in last year for a kid I had with me.  Didn't connect, but one of the bucks he could have poked with his barrel   :chuckle:

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2014, 10:32:49 PM »
Im wanting to try rattling this year as I have never done it but in august purchased some land that is yielding quite a bit of deer and bucks. And suggestions on what type rattling antlers to buy?

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2014, 11:10:28 PM »
a heavy beamed 3point shed pair soaked in water 24 hours prior to rattling  :tup:

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2014, 03:16:28 PM »
I did some rattling today, it's a bit early yet.





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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2014, 03:21:44 PM »
Tomorrow I will be hitting the horns a bit in the 101 try to stick one!

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2014, 05:47:04 PM »
Rattled all weekend in 124, nothing.  I think I actually chased one away.... :bash:
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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #11 on: November 10, 2014, 08:02:06 AM »
Nothin this weekend... I wish I was out there right now though... it was 60 degrees and windy all weekend... with full moon.

Right now its 12 degrees with 2 fresh inches in Billings and up where I was this weekend is more like 10 degrees with 10-14 inches of snow on the ground!!! May have to hit it tomorrow!
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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #12 on: November 10, 2014, 10:12:37 AM »
I always chased them away when I rattled  :chuckle:
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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #13 on: November 10, 2014, 10:17:20 AM »
A lot of guys are far too aggressive when they rattle, especially early on and for blacktails.  They wind up spooking the deer instead of calling them in. :twocents:

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Re: Lets the start a whitetail rattling thread....
« Reply #14 on: November 10, 2014, 10:47:02 AM »
sometimes I don't even smack the horns together,  just find a likely bush (not a nice young viable sapling) and do your best to kill it with a horn.  Smack the ground a few times with the horn and scrape the dirt with the horn and keep your eye's open!

Oh I tried the flextone black rack the other day,  I didn't care for the rattling sound (plastic sounds like plastic) but it was great for rubbing brush and thumping the ground and scraping the dirt up.


hard to beat genuine horn for actual rattling.

 


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