Originally Posted by
nchawkeye
I really don't worry about where the big bucks are bedded...For years I hunted with a guy that did and he really hurt all our chances looking for and going through their bedding areas...
I stick with the food sources that are hot at that time and try to keep up with the does...
During the rut, bucks travel, just like a young fellow bar hopping...Find a good group of does and pattern them...
A pretty woman will get a fellow in trouble every time...
I don't want to hunt the bedding areas specifically, but the problem is that the mature bucks where I hunt never step out into the field until way after dark so the difficultly is figuring out which trail they used to enter the field. If I had an idea of where the bedding area was I could place my stand on one of many trails from that direction to the field and pretty soon figure out which one is his trail.