I just found your videos & I LOVE them so much!!! I never go hunting w/o my camo headnet(I have glasses too 😓). I found a really neat one that is a face net with a built in camo baseball hat, I like it better than putting my cap on top of my old one b/c the net used to shift & obstruct my vision & I was always having to readjust! I never have to with the neat lil net/hat combo. I saw your video about grunt calls, I'm definitely gonna try the backward sucking the air instead way that you showed us!😊 Thanks again for your knowledge & tips I've been hunting a long time and I still learn something new everyday. So Thanks Again & Happy Hunting!😀
Hello! Been a fan for a long time!! I loved the old tinks video where your at deer camp with your family back in the 80s will that eve be r posted here? thanks!! God Bless !!
I hunt in November too (in Minnesota). Rare is the year when I do not hear bucks engaged in battle at this time, occasionally enabling me to soon take one of them.
This may seem strange, but there is no such thing as a high doe to buck ratio, only more does seen than bucks. Human hunters cannot significantly reduce numbers of especially-elusive mature bucks. They are too difficult to hunt. The ways most hunters hunt today makes it even more difficult to see them, much less harvest them-as trail cams are proving these days. Wherever I have used calls or rattling antlers for the first time during my 72 years of whitetail hunting, I've been fairly successful at attracting older bucks to stand sites, but after a few years of this, the survivors in the area will have learned it is dangerous to approach such sounds if human odors accompany them-discovered by learning to circle downwind to size up matters before deciding what to do. Calls and rattling that poorly imitate sounds actually made by whitetails have little chance if attracting bucks 3-1/2 years of age or older nowadays, and once heard, such bucks thereafter ignore them, knowing a hunter is making the sounds.
Doc. I always thougjt that best time to rattle was October through November. From what I gleaned from you. Is September and early October is the best. Can you talk more in depth on that?
Basically, you are right, those months are best. Actually, however, I've even rattled up a few in December. The three whitetail breeding periods of the rut ocuur in November, early December and the last days of December through the first week or so of January. During this period, dominant breeding bucks of adjoining ranges not uncommonly battle over does in heat. During the two preceding months, antlered bucks are engaged in establising their square-mile pecking orders (via battling) and establishing intended or actual breeding ranges, at which time they even battle trees while making rubs. Throughout these five months, therefore, there are reasons why bucks may engage in sparring or battling with antlers engaged, meaning, bucks can be sccessfully rattled throughout this five month period-mostly because antlered bucks bucks like watching other bucks battle. The problem is, most hunters have no ideal what a battle between two bucks sounds like. Inept rattling not only dosen't work, except maybe on yearling bucks, but it makes it easy for older bucks to recognize and avoid hunters using rattling antlers. Once learned, mature bucks can't be fooled by rattling.
what kind of antlers are you using. I have the same pair. I picked them up at a garage sale but cannot read who manufactured them. They sound great and i'd like to keep my eye out for another pair
I've never been in Vermont, but being one of the northern tier of U.S. states, I think its safe to assume everything I have to say about hunting whitetails in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia and Maine is fully applicacale in Vermont.
Golden nuggets Sir. Not all of us were mentored in this part of life. Thank you
Thank you for the advice. It's nice of you to help out us young bucks!
finally, someone who NAILS it. This coming from someone who gets it but is still learning. 10/10 thank you.
I really like your advices sounds like you have a lot of experience and not just another guy trying to sell some kind of brand or product
I just found your videos & I LOVE them so much!!! I never go hunting w/o my camo headnet(I have glasses too 😓). I found a really neat one that is a face net with a built in camo baseball hat, I like it better than putting my cap on top of my old one b/c the net used to shift & obstruct my vision & I was always having to readjust! I never have to with the neat lil net/hat combo. I saw your video about grunt calls, I'm definitely gonna try the backward sucking the air instead way that you showed us!😊 Thanks again for your knowledge & tips I've been hunting a long time and I still learn something new everyday. So Thanks Again & Happy Hunting!😀
That is awesome cannot wait to try that this year in October Halloween
Hello! Been a fan for a long time!! I loved the old tinks video where your at deer camp with your family back in the 80s will that eve be r posted here? thanks!! God Bless !!
Nice video Doc
I hunt in Michigan. Do you think bucks rattle in November, which happens to be fun season?
Though not as common, We occasionally hear bucks battling or discover spots where bucks have been battling in November.
ERROL MATTHEWS yes
I hunt in November too (in Minnesota). Rare is the year when I do not hear bucks engaged in battle at this time, occasionally enabling me to soon take one of them.
Thank you very much for your information . Does a high doe to buck ratio effect your success on rattling in buck or calling ?
This may seem strange, but there is no such thing as a high doe to buck ratio, only more does seen than bucks. Human hunters cannot significantly reduce numbers of especially-elusive mature bucks. They are too difficult to hunt. The ways most hunters hunt today makes it even more difficult to see them, much less harvest them-as trail cams are proving these days. Wherever I have used calls or rattling antlers for the first time during my 72 years of whitetail hunting, I've been fairly successful at attracting older bucks to stand sites, but after a few years of this, the survivors in the area will have learned it is dangerous to approach such sounds if human odors accompany them-discovered by learning to circle downwind to size up matters before deciding what to do. Calls and rattling that poorly imitate sounds actually made by whitetails have little chance if attracting bucks 3-1/2 years of age or older nowadays, and once heard, such bucks thereafter ignore them, knowing a hunter is making the sounds.
Ken Nordberg thank you very much
Ken Nordberg how do you beat the deer nose ? I hunt the wind and use scent sprays. Wash clothes in scent away spray .
Vanilla extract is the answer
Doc. I always thougjt that best time to rattle was October through November. From what I gleaned from you. Is September and early October is the best. Can you talk more in depth on that?
Basically, you are right, those months are best. Actually, however, I've even rattled up a few in December. The three whitetail breeding periods of the rut ocuur in November, early December and the last days of December through the first week or so of January. During this period, dominant breeding bucks of adjoining ranges not uncommonly battle over does in heat. During the two preceding months, antlered bucks are engaged in establising their square-mile pecking orders (via battling) and establishing intended or actual breeding ranges, at which time they even battle trees while making rubs. Throughout these five months, therefore, there are reasons why bucks may engage in sparring or battling with antlers engaged, meaning, bucks can be sccessfully rattled throughout this five month period-mostly because antlered bucks bucks like watching other bucks battle. The problem is, most hunters have no ideal what a battle between two bucks sounds like. Inept rattling not only dosen't work, except maybe on yearling bucks, but it makes it easy for older bucks to recognize and avoid hunters using rattling antlers. Once learned, mature bucks can't be fooled by rattling.
what kind of antlers are you using. I have the same pair. I picked them up at a garage sale but cannot read who manufactured them. They sound great and i'd like to keep my eye out for another pair
Could you give me any tips for Vermont?
I've never been in Vermont, but being one of the northern tier of U.S. states, I think its safe to assume everything I have to say about hunting whitetails in Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, West Virginia and Maine is fully applicacale in Vermont.
Ken Nordberg what calls have you used in West Virginia?
I saw Dr. and I clicked
noel feather antlers i have the same ones love them
The time for rattling depends on geography
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