But you know.... not always. Many times a bedding area is an open hardwood ridge where they can see and detect trouble coming and have some acorns or something close at hand. Often it's snuggled up next to a couple downed trees. Everyone thinks there HAS to be a definite bedding area. That's not always so. Weather, temp, all sorts of things effect where a deer flops and how long he'll stay. The prefered bedding area, say a standing corn field, can be chopped tomorrow. Deer adapt and change and go with their needs and the pressure exerted on them. I've seen deer bed just inside a woods and spend the day. I've seen them bed easily a mile from where they'll want to be come night fall. Yes, if pressured they prefer thick. If not pressured, they often don't care if they're 50 yards or 400 yards into the woods. In yuppie land they'll bed on a lawn or wherever they are when they decide enough is enough. Work out the food, the trails and you'll come up with prefered areas but don't hang your hat on a deer going there every day.