Thread: Scraping and rattling for stags

I was watching some US hunting videos the other night and it reminded me how little kiwis use scrapping and antler rattling to call in stags during the rut. Often the elk hunters will have a cagey bull responds to bugles but not come in. Yet they come in when they use antlers to rattle them or they thrash a tree/bush with a stick. Here in NZ most that I know of and see use roars but not scraping or rattling. It seems to work well on the whitetail over there too. What are other's observations?