ORIGINAL: GMMAT
check for horn imprints
I saw you say this somewhere else, MM....and I have to ask....
Do they really lay with their antlers to the side? I've only been fortunate enough to see one buck bed down near me. He stayed 14yds away for 3:40 minutes, though. I saw him groom himself like a house cat would several times. What I also thought was interesting is.....he would tuck his snout inside his back hip when he would sleep....and that position had his antlers stuck straight down his back.....sort of streamlined.
If there had been snow on the gorund....there's no way he would have given away he was a buck just by judging his bed (and looking for antler imprints).
Just my (admittedly) single observation.
Ive watched bucks bed near my stand that would have made horn imprints. They laid there head out in front of them, sort of like a dog, and then tilted to the side. The antlers rested right on the ground.