Calling and Ratteling Blacktails

[bow4elk]

I've had my best rattling/calling success in December...killed 3 in a row on 12/31!

[kglacken]

So you think it will be worth a shot to try and rattle in a buck during late buck or even Late archery?

[AKBowman]

Bow4Elk-   I'd love to go to one of your seminars this weekend and I definitely would if I wasnt going to be out scouting/checking cams/picking out treestand locations for late archery 

I was lucky enough to meet a member on this site who has been rifle hunting the same area as I have been archery hunting the past four years and he has shot some whoppers in there in Oct. If not for that I dont think I would know the caliber of buck that are in that area b/c I just have not been seeing them in Nov/Dec. This year I am going all out on the scouting, running 6 trail cams and have 3 tree stands to hunt different wind.

I know now that persistence and to just BELIEVE that that big BT buck IS THERE will keep me in my stand until I kill my buck.

I can speak for many of us on here when I say THANK YOU for sharing the info you have gathered over the years about killing these grey ghosts.

[longstevo]

Alright, just to recap here. 

I hunted whitetails in Idaho one year and we couldn't buy a buck, so we went to rattling because 'Why the hell not?"
By the time the hunt was over, we'd rattled in nearly ten bucks of various sizes (no monsters) and I shot a nice three point. 
Our method:  No less than twenty minutes in one place.  Rattle viciously and loud for three to five minutes and pause.  Grunt on the standard grunt tube two or three times in a three to five minute break from rattling, then start right back up with the hard and heavy rattling again (3-5 mins) with a short break with some grunts. 

Of course, the next year this wouldn't work. 

Am I on the right track here for blacktails, or is there another preferred method?