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I rattle in a good one every year. I’m in the black belt in Alabama so not southeast. It’s more about timing then anything. I have the most luck mid morning during the rut or pre rut. Two tactics I use, one covering the down wind side of a large/ thick clearcut on a cold morning and the other way back off the beaten path watching a road or sitting on a hillside watching a big bottom. The bucks will not be able to locate the sound, only pinpoint the direction and will make an attempt to get downwind of you to find the source. I’ve killed four or five this way and call in all age classes. Watch for movement.

I wanted to edit my post and say that I think rattling goes hand in hand with the quality of the property you are hunting. If you are hunting property that is short on numbers of deer and age classes of bucks I could see how rattling or grunting would be less effective.