RE: Stumbled onto a big bed
 

Deer can and do make beds like that. I call it a primary bed. I used to think deer never slept in the same spot twice and would constantly move around. Using the same beds, but multiple times and randomly. All I ever seen was a nice mashed down circle of grass or weeds with tracks going in and out and that was what I always thought all deer did. But I have a new spot that I found late last fall/winter and it has about a dozen of these beds in it, several are in close proximity of each other. It is what I have referred to in the past as my swamp spot. It is thirty five acres of the thickest cover I have ever been in, but is surrounded by the normal Ohio flat farm ground and woods. Deer move all over and have many bedding areas as they travel, but I think they also have a primary bedding area that gets used the most. My beds have hair and are worn down to the dirt just like that. I am not sure if this spot will work out since I am afraid I may have too much of a good thing since the area is only thirty five acres and the access to get in the huntable spots is limited and then has beds close to them. The only thing I have learned from these beds so far is the first thing a deer does when it gets up is take a crap! Both of the trails going into the bedding area about ten yards out is loaded with deer crap! This spring and summer I am going to try and find a trail that is as far from the beds as possible but still a main trail and get them on the way in or out.

RE: Stumbled onto a big bed
 

Not to be argumentative but I thought bucks were pretty muchloners and didn't group up. If you found a bedding area with multiple beds, I would think that would be a doe bedding area.

Then again....I remembera buddy telling me of a group of bucks he saw all together on a past hunting trip. I could be wrong.

RE: Stumbled onto a big bed
 

You are right and I should have been more specific since the original post was about bucks. The beds that are next to each other I know are doe beds, I have pics of them coming in and out on the trail cam. The beds that are at the back of the property are the ones that I think are buck beds. The one I was walking right by during hunting season and did not find it until this spring. Feel it is a buck bed because all of its poop is clumped together like a bucks normally is compared to the doe area where it is all separate pellets.

RE: Stumbled onto a big bed
 

I also have alot of these pics that from early spring until they shed there velvet they are very social and hang out together. I had a group of five bucks that were always in pics together.

RE: Stumbled onto a big bed
 

I'll buy that. I almost wrote that in my last post about thebuck poop vs. doe poopbut you took care of that for me.