Being honest.....When I first started hunting....I sat up on the edges of my hunting areas....because I "thought" they were using the interior as a bedding area. I didn't want to disturb that.....so I hunted the edges for a good while (my entire first season). In my second season.....I hunted the edges until I wanted to push it a little....and started moving in. I found out (through sheer incompetence) that they weren't bedding on the property I hunt, at all.
By hunting the edges, though.....I was able to observe a lot more than I probably would have if I'd dove into the heart of the woods right off the bat. It was a sound strategy.....I just didn't know I was doing it.
On the new land I have acquired.....I'll be doing that on purpose.
