It's not really a bedding "area". It's a lone bed, which is why it surprised me. I hunted this spot probablya dozentimes last year and saw multiple deer all but one time. The deer generally bed further back up the mountain. There is some pressure here, as we have a neighbor who kills (illegally) 20 to 30 deer a year, sometime on our land, sothey move back a bit to bed, for the most part. Thereare a few bedding areas nearby in some piney areas, but (I believe) this is the only bed really close by.

One of the other nice things about this spot is that the wind is almost always uphill in the mornings (when the deer come up from feeding in the fields at night) and almost always downhill in the evenings (when they go down to the fields to feed). So, hopefully, I can get him coming back to his bed in the morning, after feeding his belly!