All this talk about hunting bedding areas has been pretty cool. I' ve been hunting beds with limited success the last couple years, but mostly because of my own dumb mistakes. I deffinately see more deer though, and bigger bucks. Anyway...

Yesterday I was setting up a new deer camera next in between a Bed and a corn field. It' s a relatively small bed....lets get to the jist. I was making quite abit a noise, and I think this buck just got sick of me. He stayed bedded for about 20 minutes, then jumoed up......20 FEET FROM ME. Never even saw him till he stood up. He was ecery bit of 160 inches. He was still in full velvet. He was a solid 10 with a couple kickers....at lleast that' s how he looked as we stared at each other for 5 seconds. Anyway, was this really bad? What do you think? It' s only July. DO I need to relocate to a different bed or will he be back? I guess the camera will hopefully be able to tell me. What a great deer, and I hope to get him on camera....even better in the lungs. Just wanted to know if he will re-pattern himself or do you think he' ll stick it out and hang around. Hope he stays!!!