Rattling question

[kd350]

Real antlers hands down. Use all three and you am definitely hear the difference.

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[dc1986]

Good point here, don't use some South TX heavy sheds with a lot of mass in the hill country, those bucks may be scared to come in!

I will be using them in Mexico for big bucks.Not sure about being able to bring real horns back and forth across the border though.

[PROUDREDNECK]

I doubt it... real antlers can be confiscated by the Mexican customs, better use plastic ones and make sure you`ll enjoy the hunting trip brother

[Kirby86]

Which bag do you have?

It's a Woods Wise buck kicker rattle bag. I think I paid a whopping 3 dollars for it on clearance at wal-mart several years ago. Real easy to lightly rattle with it, or you can raise cane with it which I rarely do. I use the same flextone grunt tube that I can't remember the exact name of that Louiegarcia has on there.

They're cheap, and they work. But, like others have said, you have to know when to use them. I hear idiots rattling in early October and I just shake my head. The deer below was rattled in two weeks before I killed him. Unfortunately I didn't have a shot. But when you have a true dominant buck in the area, and a lot of subordinate deer, the last thing big boy wants is for the smaller deer to be jacking around on his turf.

[BBReezen]

Pack rack and the bone collector flextone

[GarGuy]

Any of yall ever use an electronic like on your FoxPro?

[dozer]

I prefer big heavy sheds, but when I'm packing in and out I use my rattle bag. Packs easily.

[The_Grizz]

I like the Primo's rattle bag because it packs up small. On the other hand, you can't beat a good pair of sheds!

[chrischop04]

This is what I have to use this year good deep sound

[sqiggy]

Natural sheds.. You can't beat that sound

No you can't.
I've done the bag trick, but have more success with sheds hands down.
I rattled at a big 8 last year and he came in a runnin. At the same time from a different direction, a young 12. Got to witness my first buck fight 30 yds out in front of me. What I learned from that 6 second fight, my rattlin sounded just about the same, but only thing different, I wasn't banging near hard enough.
With that said, if you think you are too loud at times, I promise, you ain't loud enough!!!

[iamntxhunter]

I certainly won't discount the use of the real thing. With that said I do believe that is has more to do with your herd balance including age as well as the timing and weather conditions. I have used the real thing along with a rattle bag and actually two rattle bags against one another with good results. There are a lot of things that come into play when you rattle and sometimes you will actually rattle in good bucks and never even see them.

[cumminchevy]

Sheds times 1000000