RE: creating quality deer bedding
thanks for all of your responses so far. i can't agree with you more rocknchair. that is the best trick up my sleeve that i learned last year. i have a small piece of land right next to a 1 mile piece of timber that is leased out by a group. they overlooked my piece that buts up to theirs, they put food plots, stands, and i am sure everything else out. the key to my land is i have a rule that nobody ever goes near the hill that buts up to their land.all i have is a2-3 acre hilltop with aevergreens and sumac bedding area, which is a great combination of bedding. most of the deer were spending all their daylight hours on my 2 acre spot and would regularly walk around during odd hours of the day through the my land. i shot a 15 pt double main beam buck off of this spot this year and had a chance at 3 others that were bigger (150"+) than my buck. we estimate that the spot beds 20+ deer. it amazes me how little visual hunting value my land holds but how much it produces every year. also on that little spot we found a 98-3/4" single side rack at the bottom of the hill.
usfwc: the areas i am starting to create bedding range from hilltops to river bottoms in north central Kansas. my favorate spot is by far the willows, but those don't need any more help bedding wise, the only problem with those is that the deer eat themselves out of house and home through out the winter being that there is such a high consintration of deer.
i am going to have to check out that forum and see what they have to say lyndon46.
thanks all
vm