This was a response I wrote to a similar thread about a week or so ago.
Well.....I have couple of questions, myself.
1. How do you know when you get to the "bedding area"?
2. How close is "close"?
3. How big do you think a "bedding area" is?
In RE: to No. 1......The deer, here, use an area of nearly 200 acres (at any given time) as a "bedding area". That being said.....there are a coupe of 40acre areas that are used more than others....but the line of delineation is, at best, "vague".
In RE: to No. 2......I hunt within a few hundred yards of what I KNOW to be a bedding are. Sometimes closer.....according to how aggressive I think I NEED to be.
In RE: to No. 3......"I" think many hunters are under the impression a "bedding area" is a very small woodlot or thicket (and it "can" be). I think a "bedding area" is much larger than most think, though. It's an "area".....not a very small piece of land.