RE: How do you guys know exactly where your big bucks are bedding?
Dan, where I live here in Mn there is some farm land and woods. Mostly woods. In general deer have been put into categories such as farm land, big woods and then semi farmland-big woods. I use to think because It was roughly 65% woods here and 35% farm land they would be semi farmalnd but they are more big woods than farmland they just might have a somewhat smaller core area. Greg Miller was actaully out here and hunted some and we went through it together. I thought I had figured out the bedding areas for the bucks but it turned out that they were bedding all over the place in there core areas wichI figured wasabout400 acrs roughly for the few bigger ones I was hunting. I supposewhere theybed decided on the wind. And also a couple of mature bucks that I had seen all summer together were still bedding together all the way up into the beginning of November, I seen them get out of there beds together and that was the end on October. I believe that they would be back bedding together now even except we shot the one, but the other one is still there in his core area. A friend of mine caught pictures of them using the same scrape about a mile from here as well in November. So to answer your question you have to determine what kind of deer you have, if it is big woods then they will mostly likely be bedding all over in there core area playing the wind. If they are farmland they will be most likely be using alot smaller area and alot of the times probably the same bed. Semi, is most like farmalnd just a little bit bigger area. I thought I had mine all figured out but they are all over bedding in there.