I hav w grunt - never any luck w horns - got to where I stopped doing the horns and do not grunt as often

I did hav a good friend in Arkansas that told me he and his brother got to wrestling in the woods as teenagers after a hunt and said a buck ran in on em to check it out

I rattled in 2 bucks at Oak Mountain back when all of the browse was gone shoulder high in the early 2000's. After my morning Hunt I had another hunter coming walking up who was on another hill from me say " man I thought 2 bucks were fighting like hell over here". The hunting there was good back then

I have had more luck with a grunt than rattling, a buddy of mine swears by it though......I think if the time is right and they are on the prowl it will work anywhere.....when I first started hunting, I tried rattling and had deer blow at me on numerous occasions, so I kind of backed off on it after that....

I have rattled in several dozen bucks of all sizes, from the start of bow season to the end of gun season, you just have to adjust your loudness and cadence to the season. Killed several wall hangers doing it.

same with a grunt call, I NEVER go bow hunting w/o TWO grunt calls.

In Tennessee more than I can count. Killed a few of them.

Right at daylight

Can’t say I’ve ever tried rattling in Alabama but I’d be confident if I decided to.

Two best times is late September early October late in the evening just tickling them and the last week of November through December 5 loud enough to hear across the county.

Had several respond through the years but only killed one.

The one I killed was 3 years ago. It was right around the end of January and I was hunting an area that had a bunch of wateroaks that were still dropping a few acorns. About 4PM I got a pic of a big 9 pt off of a camera that was 200 yards from me. The deer wasn't headed my way so I grabbed a rattle bag out of my pack and rattled as loud as possible for a full 5 minutes. Around 20 minutes later I heard a little noise in the thicket on the downwind side of me and then the 9 pt. popped out and gave me a 15 yard shot. I put a Rage through him and watched him flop. It had been thundering in the distance the whole time and the bottom fell out shortly after he hit the ground.

I always have that rattle bag and a good grunt call with me now.

This has been my experience as well

Yes on grunting ... killed several and had the opportunity to see more... No on rattling, zero, zilch, nadda ....