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09-05-2006 | 10:05 PM

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MountainHunter

Typical Buck

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From: Virginia

Big Buck bed?

I’m hoping I can get some Monday morning quarterbacking advice from you with more experience.

Season opens Oct 7 here in Virginia, so this past Saturday I was in the woods, hiking with my wife and scouting some new land and clearing lanes in my favorite spot on some land I hunted last year, where I almost always see deer. Well, I had been tromping about, clearing 5 strategically located shooting lanes, when I noticed the biggest buck pile I had ever seen! Great news! Then I saw another huge pile, and another…you get the idea. There were 5 big piles within 20 yards of my stand site. That’s the good news.

Here’s the (maybe) bad news: Just as I and my wife were getting ready to leave, I noticed a deer bed under a bush. My guess, with all the buck piles, is that the bed belonged to the buck. The layout of this area was more open than where I would expect to find beds, so I wasn’t particularly careful about not leaving my scent, etc., and I walked around for a good 15 or 20 minutes, explaining my strategy, showing my wife the deer piles, etc. (she’s a great sport for this kind of thing). I always thought of this little area as a transit point (more or less a funnel) between the CRP fields below our land and bedding areas in the national forest just above and behind our land.

My question is: Did I just ruin the bed of a huge buck who won’t come back to it?[&o]

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