Depends on the area. Farm country, deer have more habitual travel/bedding traits, based on cover, feed, human activity. Will often bed repeatedly in "safe" areas until disturbed. In big woods, deer wander more and bed wherever they feel like it, returning to that area more on a monthly basis than daily.
This interview alone brings up so many questions. There is a huge movement to hunting deer beds but he is saying bucks only bed in the same beds 1-5 times at most. so that makes actively scouting before season and in season almost a requirement and imperative to hunting buck beds. seems being aggressive might be the way to go.
What I'm getting from this, is a bucks bed and feeding spots are probably determined by 1.) Located in a secure or area of comfort 2.) Actual spots are determined by wind and social interaction. So, hunt an area, not a spot. Hunt areas that are likely based on wind and current deer activity. Unfortunately, this is what most already do.
I really enjoy these podcasts guys. I just found y’all like a cpl weeks ago and I’ve watched a bunch of them. Are y’all coming to the Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza in Pearl in July?
I walked all the main trails on our few hundred acres of hunting area last winter. All there well used main trail were just out of sight of all the blinds and tree stands. They simply work there way around most of them. Moving stands around after a year maybe 2 is good idea.
In the highly pressured public land that I hunt the last 2 kills I have 30-40 pictures of each of those bucks returning to their primary bedding. The one I killed in the staging off his bed the other, when he abandoned his bedding I moved and killed him in the rut funnel. I have killed so many bucks in the staging off the bedding that I just don't think these findings apply to the pressured public that we hunt. Not to mention over a 100 mature bucks that I have passed coming out of the bedding that weren't shooters. And also to say nothing of all the photos we have that confirm that specific bedding sees persistent use. Just my opinion.
Makes me want to go back to school. Cool stuff love listening to Dr. Strickland.
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Depends on the area. Farm country, deer have more habitual travel/bedding traits, based on cover, feed, human activity. Will often bed repeatedly in "safe" areas until disturbed. In big woods, deer wander more and bed wherever they feel like it, returning to that area more on a monthly basis than daily.
This.
I'd like to know how many actual different bedding areas those beds are in
This interview alone brings up so many questions. There is a huge movement to hunting deer beds but he is saying bucks only bed in the same beds 1-5 times at most. so that makes actively scouting before season and in season almost a requirement and imperative to hunting buck beds. seems being aggressive might be the way to go.
What I'm getting from this, is a bucks bed and feeding spots are probably determined by
1.) Located in a secure or area of comfort
2.) Actual spots are determined by wind and social interaction.
So, hunt an area, not a spot. Hunt areas that are likely based on wind and current deer activity.
Unfortunately, this is what most already do.
I really enjoy these podcasts guys. I just found y’all like a cpl weeks ago and I’ve watched a bunch of them. Are y’all coming to the Mississippi Wildlife Extravaganza in Pearl in July?
Not this year, but we will be at the Mobile Hunters Expo in GA this weekend, and the World Deer Expo in Birmingham next month!
Would be cool to see how the bedding changed with human pressure, if there was any. Roads, tree stands, feeders, houses etc..
I walked all the main trails on our few hundred acres of hunting area last winter. All there well used main trail were just out of sight of all the blinds and tree stands. They simply work there way around most of them. Moving stands around after a year maybe 2 is good idea.
In the highly pressured public land that I hunt the last 2 kills I have 30-40 pictures of each of those bucks returning to their primary bedding. The one I killed in the staging off his bed the other, when he abandoned his bedding I moved and killed him in the rut funnel. I have killed so many bucks in the staging off the bedding that I just don't think these findings apply to the pressured public that we hunt. Not to mention over a 100 mature bucks that I have passed coming out of the bedding that weren't shooters. And also to say nothing of all the photos we have that confirm that specific bedding sees persistent use.
Just my opinion.
I don't know about how many beds but I like giving them dirt naps
Why are you wearing hats indoors?