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Here's my dilema folks, I know the area where the deer are bedding and I know where they are feeding however it seems that they're only coming out well after dark and they're heading back to their bedding area about an hour before first light. I know that it's late in the season and there is some pressure in the area that I hunt (South GA) but what is it that I can do, if anything to close the gap on one of these deer? Your help is greatly appreciated, God Bless & Merry Christmas.

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If you can get up really early and get into there bedding area before they do, if they go in there an hour before light go in 30 to 45 minutes before them. I know you will be sitting for a long time in the dark so just dress warmand sit them out. Sometimes hunting a bedding area this late in the season is the best way to get them.

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Go mess up their bedding area some how. That should force them to pick another area to bed and may cause them to change their feed habits.

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Crenshaw, as it is right now i've been setting up along a creek bottom whichborders the thicket where I know they're bedding so there is no way to get closer than that. SWThomas, I considered that but I didn't want to scare the deer out of the area....I'm at my wits end!!!

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Have a hunting partner walk through to bump them out, if drives are legal in GA.

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If the grond is not to noisy,still hunt it.either in to the wind or with a cross wind depending upon the topography of the area they are bedding.

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Garminator, Is there another way to get on the otherside of the bedding area? Can you improve your vantage piont with out disrupting them. I know you dont want to spook them, and thats smart. But is there a way to possibly come at them from a different angle?

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I cannot stress it enough...STAY OUT OF THEIR BEDROOM!!!! That is, of course,unless you want to push them off of your property and onto someone elses.

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Hunt thicker areas, they wont travel in the slightest bit of open ground after they know its hunting season, they want to be hidden.

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I wish that I could Crenshaw but unfortunatley the other side of thatbedding areais someone elses property :(

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Use the wind (windier the better actually and even better if rain/snow mixed in) stillhunt your wayin and shoot one. You may end up spooking them, and you may end up shooting a big one.

By stillhunting I'm saying travelling at no more than 100 yds/hour or so. It can be done.

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I would only do it near the end of the hunting season, but wait for a wind that puts your stand downwind of the thicket. Then get a buddy to around the upwind side of the thicket. In most cases he doesn't even need to walk through the thicket, just his scent being carried through the area will cause some deer to try and sneak out the backside, right wear you are waiting. If he actually walks through the thicket and jumps the deer, they may be running to quickly to get a shot at when they come past you.

Its worked to perfection for me in the past, but you do run the chance a scaring deer off your property for the rest of the season. But at this time of theyear that may be a chance you're willing to take. The deer will revert back to normal habits before next year.

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Great info, thanks guys!!! At this point, i'm willing to try anything!!!

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Are you 100% sure that the deer are bedding there? Is it possible for them to be bedding on the next door property? If not why have you not checked out the north and south side of the thicket? Up here deer will move in the day time regardless.. I have shot most of my deer from 11:00 to 1:00 in the woods. They tend to stay in the woods during the day light hours once they get pressured and normally will find a spot to look for food. So if there is another area on your land that you can hunt then it should be getting checked out as well..

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Garminator where in South Ga you hunt I hunt also in south ga and am haveing the same problem. Ive noticed them moveing right at or just befor dark when I cant even see the dang cross hairs in my scope.

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OK I know this may sound crazy but I've done it in the laurel thickets where I have a good vantage point to watch escape routes.
But a sling shot shooting pebbles through the thickets sometimes gets them rattled enough to get them to leave. And you don't enter the bedding area.
A good sling shot can carry a stone 100 yds easily.

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we have the same prob in fl where i hunt

see i hunt on 10,000 acres and the deer are keeping to the swamps with the weather like it is here
u'd just gotta hope for perfect weather

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Get a few friends and turn a few packs of blueticks and black & tans loose in there.........;)