How to Rattle Up Whitetails – Tips with Ron Spomer ~ VIDEO

By Ammoland

By Ron Spomer
For us, whitetail hunters summer dreaming usually revolves around the upcoming season. But we should do more than dream. We should prepare.

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Most us us know we should stay out of a buck’s core area. Leave him alone and let him feel secure. But we also know we should get stands hung early enough to let them blend into the environment. And many of us want to operate trail cams, maybe manage food plots. What else can we do to prepare for the soon-to-be-here season?

How about learning to rattle?

Rattling up whitetails has been around since at least the 1960s. Savvy Native American hunters were known to use the tactic, but it took modern hunters considerable time to try it, and then most gave up because it didn’t work. But others had fantastic success with it. So what’s the secret?

Timing and a balanced buck-doe ratio. The reason many of us early adopters failed at rattling (outside of Texas) in the last third of the 20th century was that whitetail populations were heavily skewed to a low buck-to-doe ratio. When you’re the male with an average of six or ten females …Read the Rest

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