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RE: bedroom hunters
My favorite spot is right between feeding grounds and the bedroom. I get my biggest deer there. I very seldom mess with the bedding areas. I have taken quite a few deer, just out side of the bedding area, but never in it.
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I've never been one for screwing with a big bucks bedroom. However there are a few different areas where I KNOW there are some quality bucks bedding. I've been hunting staging areas just off food sources lately in the PM hoping to get them showing themselves just before dark. Last night I saw a shooter the last 10 minutes of light on the other side of an alfalfa field I was hunting. Week and a half left. Do you take the chance of creeping in deeper to where he is and risk bumping him out of there? Or do you ride it out and hope he slips up and comes out earlier?
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I have had moderate success with it by going in early. Late seasonmakes it much tuffersimply because they return to the bedding area under darkhess. However if he doesn't know your there he will get up and browse around his area a bit which could give an opportunity. I have noticed deer will get up and move about every 3 to 4 hours unless it is bitter cold then more often. What do you have to lose?
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My favorite spot is right between feeding grounds and the bedroom. I get my biggest deer there. I very seldom mess with the bedding areas. I have taken quite a few deer, just out side of the bedding area, but never in it.
That's what I try to do..... crowd the bedding area. Just on the outside of it.
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So there I was, Nov 12th 1996, flying down the highway, smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee, windows down for scent control.
I have this little piece of land behind my house which is a bedding area only 5 acres. Only time to hunt this land is to get back that 1 hour before daylight. Its surrounded by corn fields. It pays off every year early season. But, its a one shot deal. If you mess up a situation and a buck busts you, he ain't coming back. A new one may come in in a month. So I only bowhunt it 2-3 times a year.
I have this little piece of land behind my house which is a bedding area only 5 acres. Only time to hunt this land is to get back that 1 hour before daylight. Its surrounded by corn fields. It pays off every year early season. But, its a one shot deal. If you mess up a situation and a buck busts you, he ain't coming back. A new one may come in in a month. So I only bowhunt it 2-3 times a year.
This is almost always the case with any bucks bedding area. I like to start out slow and work my way in slowly. I may have to move 3-4 times before I get into position for a shot. In some cases, such as yours, you may have to move in right away with the area being kind of small.
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So there I was, Nov 12th 1996, flying down the highway, smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee, windows down for scent control.
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
I have this little piece of land behind my house which is a bedding area only 5 acres. Only time to hunt this land is to get back that 1 hour before daylight. Its surrounded by corn fields. It pays off every year early season. But, its a one shot deal. If you mess up a situation and a buck busts you, he ain't coming back. A new one may come in in a month. So I only bowhunt it 2-3 times a year.
This is almost always the case with any bucks bedding area. I like to start out slow and work my way in slowly. I may have to move 3-4 times before I get into position for a shot. In some cases, such as yours, you may have to move in right away with the area being kind of small.
I really wish I could learn patience to do this. Last year, I setup where I thought he would come and he came right to me. I couldn't shoot, so he got under me, and I could tell he was looking for me. I never saw him again. I first thought, I should just shoot straight down onto his back, but looking back, I did the right thing.
Next year, I might take your advise and back off about 60 yards and adjust as necessary.
If you are going to invade his core and risk it all, then I'd go for broke and go in and set-upduring the pitch black early a.m. and wait for him to return from his nightly rounds. If he comes back before sun-up, which is quite likely post-rut, you can stir him from his bed once daylight comeswith some extra-light grunting to make him think another buck has crossed the line and has entered his domain.
This makes perfect sense to me.
I have a question. How do you know where a big buck is bedding? Seeing him? Trail Camera? I've NEVER been able to find a place where I think a buck is bedding? I don't think?
RE: bedroom hunters
