Although I love to see a buck come in to calling, especially a vigorous rattling sequence, I too tend to blind rattle a lot less nowadays due to some deer buggering things up by getting downwind of me, etc. Also, we are trying harder to avoid any deer contact with "non-shooters" so we do not educate the herd, etc.
That being said, we put one stand up in our timber that we almost never sit until "it's right". It is essentially our rattling stand and somewhere right around the 5th of November one of us will be in it! To the downwind is a steep drop off that really helps minimize the number of "circlers" and in front of the stand are three feint ridge tops that all merge about where our stand is. We usually only hunt this stand once or twice a year and almost always as a morning stand, when we know bucks are on their feet cruising.
I think because of the lay of the land I described above, bucks will almost always come in upwind of this stand when called to it. The timber is also fairly thick in this area, so they can't see much more than 50 yards, if that, at ground level. I think that also helps lead them to "search".
This stand is also about 125 yards away from known feeding and bedding areas, so we can get into it without anything getting spooked and it is close enough to those areas that willing bucks will travel that distance often. We have called in as many as 7 or 8 separate bucks in one morning from this stand. This stand is about a 10 on a scale of 10 in terms of setup for rattling.
From most other sets though, I do not blind rattle very often any more.