uwbadgers

Everyone says the trick to hunting deer is to get them between their bedding area and the food source. How do you start looking for bedding areas? What signs should there be once you find it?

browningbolt

blankets and pillows,teddy bears is is sure sign of yearlings.

bigmike924

if its a tall grass or even leafs u can see beds indents in the grass/leafs.but alot of your big bucks going to bed in that thicket all day till last light or early morning. so if you got a food plot or field seculded. hunt in between them the food an the thickets
.

Father Forkhorn

Follow a trail in each direction. As was said, there may be indentations if they're bedding in grass. You may not have that if they're bedding in cedars or other brushy cover. It will often be on a ridge, slope, or some section of higher ground, especially if they're feeding in crop fields in in creek bottoms.

If you kick deer up in the afternoon, you've probably reached it. Be careful about this. Bucks will relocate very quickly if they're bothered in their beds. Best to leave 'em alone.

Another help: watch how they enter and depart feeding areas. That'll give you a direction.

halfbakedi420

depends on what time of year....
certainly just findin a spot on a intersection of deer trails is your best bet,
if your tryin to figure which way bedding, and which way is food...
you will want to just go un-noticed as to not polute the trails with human skin cells...
sit all day,
in the moring, deer will go one way to forage and drink,
and at night,
or even on hot days,
deer will be heading back to the bed room...
deer are just like us, we want our bed to be close to the kitchen...
so goin in stompin around is just gonna stir things up...
and ya want them to think everything is the same...
just think..would ya notice a deer sittin in your living room?
they will know you are in the woods

SJAdventures

Just find a food source and follow trails that lead away from them. You don't want to try to get too close to a bedding area because a big buck will not tolerate you there if you bump him and could move out of your area. You have to extremely wind direction conscious not only while huting but also just getting in and out of your stand. You cannot allow your scent to blow into a bedding area regardless of what Scent Loc claims. You will know when you find bedding areas by the sign of multiple beds.

halfbakedi420

you cant stop you scent from blowing, but ya can sure as hello try

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/bowh...o-dont-do.html

Bukmastr

Finding big buck bedding areas can seem complex but its not really that hard. I have actually started a series of tactical hunting DVD's that revolve around buck bedding as the key to killing them.
In hilly terrain bucks are generally bedded on points at about 1/3 to 1/4 down from hiest elevation right where the hill / point starts to get steep. wind to the back and thermal up the hill, the bed where the thermal current hits the actual wind current...
In marshes or swamps they tend to bed where two types of cover meet (transition line) Could be where cattails and dogwood meet, a pile of brush out in an ocean of cattails etc. In dense swamps I look at topo's for slight elevation changes and find bedding along that elevation line... Big woods can be trickier, but still, I find the bedding near edge ( or transition) could a cut over edge, or swamp edge, etc. Again looking for elevation changes. Find them 1/4 from the top of a hill in big woods survaying the woods below while hiding behind a deadfall tree a lot...