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View Poll Results: What do you use for rattling?
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Real Antlers
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Rattling Bag
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Other (Explain)
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10-13-2010, 02:18 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: High Prairie
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Rattling
It's just about that time of year again!!! 
Just wondering what everyone is using for rattling
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10-13-2010, 03:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Glendon
Posts: 238
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Its all about the real antlers! That is until you smash your fingers 
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10-13-2010, 03:57 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: wmu 222, member #197
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a set of mulie 170" 4x4's, they lay flatter than wt and have no brow tines to smash fingys.
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10-13-2010, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: High Prairie
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A light bulb just went off in my head... Find some sheds, cut them into equal lengths. Put them in your rattling back instead of wood blocks... 
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10-13-2010, 04:07 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 571
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I use both real and a bag
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10-13-2010, 05:36 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Posts: 198
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Just use a set of real ones froms the first buck i shot a little 4x4.
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10-13-2010, 05:45 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkaholic6
A light bulb just went off in my head... Find some sheds, cut them into equal lengths. Put them in your rattling back instead of wood blocks... |
Matching Heavy Shed's,bigger the Better,cut off the Browtines,Drill holes through the bases if desired,so you can run a string to keep them together.
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10-13-2010, 05:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whitetail Junkie
Matching Heavy Shed's,bigger the Better,cut off the Browtines,Drill holes through the bases if desired,so you can run a string to keep them together.
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I know lol. But I like the use of the bag better... I was thinking of just replacing the wood blocks with real antler...
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10-13-2010, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: St. Louis, SK formerly Lethbridge
Posts: 100
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Friend owns a deer farm so I get a big heavy 4X4 set every couple of years. Cut off the brow tines and put some rope through the ends. The bigger the better is right. The sound seems to carry much farther.
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10-13-2010, 09:56 PM
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: N/E Alberta.
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Real all the way.. I call moose with an old birch bark and I rattle deer with real horns and I still wear nothing but real wool when hunting.. For me there are certain things that can't be compromised..
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10-14-2010, 09:38 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Lac La Biche, Alberta
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Elkaholic6
I know lol. But I like the use of the bag better... I was thinking of just replacing the wood blocks with real antler...
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I was using my rattle bag for the first time today and had the exact same idea. I think it would work great. I might just go chop some antlers up later and put them in the bag and see what happens!
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10-14-2010, 05:40 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: High Prairie
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lone_Wolf
I was using my rattle bag for the first time today and had the exact same idea. I think it would work great. I might just go chop some antlers up later and put them in the bag and see what happens!
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Do'er!!!
I need to find a couple more sheds before I can try 
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10-14-2010, 05:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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I also use the real deal. I do change out my antlers every year so they always sound fresh. I find that after they sit a couple years they change their tone. Don't know if it makes a differance, I just do it.
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10-14-2010, 07:22 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Posts: 333
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Fresh sheds are a must to sound proper. Its also amazing how much better say 120" set sounds compared to a 100" set, and i beleive the deer can tell the difference. If it sounds like two little guys are fighting why should a 150 feel the need to come and investigate they are no threat to his monarchy.
Off topic, but I've heard that rattling doesn't work near as good for mulies as it does for whitetails. Is this true?
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10-14-2010, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: calgary
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I use a rattle bag, and 4 or 5 sets of real ones, some are sheds and my favorite is a 145 whitetail I cut the browtines off. The bigger ones sound louder and better.
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10-14-2010, 07:57 PM
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Rimbey
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Quote:
Originally Posted by roger
a set of mulie 170" 4x4's, they lay flatter than wt and have no brow tines to smash fingys.
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x2 on the mule antlers, most are built way better for rattling. Ive used the same set for almost 20yrs. Results are just as good now as they were the first years.
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10-14-2010, 07:59 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Alberta
Posts: 4,279
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Quote:
Originally Posted by whitetail Junkie
Matching Heavy Shed's,bigger the Better,cut off the Browtines,Drill holes through the bases if desired,so you can run a string to keep them together.
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10-15-2010, 12:12 AM
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I got a nice set of 3 point mule deer sheds I use. gotta go with the real ones!
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10-15-2010, 12:36 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: out in the boonies
Posts: 2,495
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If we are targeting a big deer in the area, we pull out two sets of antlers with the skull caps attached, both are over 150, makes an unmistakable sound of two big boys scrapping, has worked several times.... kids love to carry them for you too...lol
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