Finding deer bedding area
07-25-2009, 05:57 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio and Indiana
Posts: 2,088
On our farm they bed in the tall hay and grasses on the ridgetop and some does and fawns bed right on the edge of the pasture. That is in the summer. In deep snows they bed at the bottom of the ridge near fallen cedars..
Ridgetop grasses. I cut certain sections and leave some to get really tall.
Little fawn bed
Ridgetop grasses. I cut certain sections and leave some to get really tall.
Little fawn bed
07-25-2009, 06:23 PM
#4
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 5,425
I don't...
They bed in thick, secluded areas where they can hear you before you can see them, why go in there and disturb them???
Hunt where they are going after they leave the bedding area in the afternoon and the edge of the bedding area where they are coming back in the morning...
I used to hunt with a guy that thought he had to walk through bedding areas to find where they were bedding, it drove me crazy...I quit hunting with him and now see many more deer and bigger bucks...You can make a educated guess without actually seeing the bed...
They bed in thick, secluded areas where they can hear you before you can see them, why go in there and disturb them???
Hunt where they are going after they leave the bedding area in the afternoon and the edge of the bedding area where they are coming back in the morning...
I used to hunt with a guy that thought he had to walk through bedding areas to find where they were bedding, it drove me crazy...I quit hunting with him and now see many more deer and bigger bucks...You can make a educated guess without actually seeing the bed...
07-25-2009, 06:51 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Ohio and Indiana
Posts: 2,088
I don't...
They bed in thick, secluded areas where they can hear you before you can see them, why go in there and disturb them???
Hunt where they are going after they leave the bedding area in the afternoon and the edge of the bedding area where they are coming back in the morning...
I used to hunt with a guy that thought he had to walk through bedding areas to find where they were bedding, it drove me crazy...I quit hunting with him and now see many more deer and bigger bucks...You can make a educated guess without actually seeing the bed...
They bed in thick, secluded areas where they can hear you before you can see them, why go in there and disturb them???
Hunt where they are going after they leave the bedding area in the afternoon and the edge of the bedding area where they are coming back in the morning...
I used to hunt with a guy that thought he had to walk through bedding areas to find where they were bedding, it drove me crazy...I quit hunting with him and now see many more deer and bigger bucks...You can make a educated guess without actually seeing the bed...
07-27-2009, 03:18 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: S. NH
Posts: 3,045
I made a post about some bedding areas, take a look...
http://www.bloodbro.com/messageboard...hp?f=44&t=7077
http://www.bloodbro.com/messageboard...php?f=8&t=6883
http://www.bloodbro.com/messageboard...hp?f=44&t=7077
http://www.bloodbro.com/messageboard...php?f=8&t=6883
