Hunting Deer Beds?
#21
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Northeast Tennessee
Posts: 5,673
RE: Hunting Deer Beds?
well if is a for sure bedding area, move near it when the deer are up and moving around and get setup and then wait for them to come back and bed down? Sounds simple enough? right? lol in a perfect world this would work but this late in the season what do you have to lose. Stalk up close slow and quite and then who knows you may get lucky....
#22
RE: Hunting Deer Beds?
ORIGINAL: davidmil
Late in the season I pull out all stops. For the first couple months I stay out of these places. I'm like Greg. I'd rather start too far away than blow it the first time. I find a likely place and hunt.... and watch... and move. I rarely hunt the same tree twice. After two or three times in an area you should have it pretty well figured out. This area you're talking about is just small. I'd find the trails in and out and hunt them. It can't be that difficult. Where's the food, they're coming here... some where in between. If you go into this small little spot of yours and bust them, it's done for the year more than likely at this point. Save that tactic for the last week of the season or something.
Late in the season I pull out all stops. For the first couple months I stay out of these places. I'm like Greg. I'd rather start too far away than blow it the first time. I find a likely place and hunt.... and watch... and move. I rarely hunt the same tree twice. After two or three times in an area you should have it pretty well figured out. This area you're talking about is just small. I'd find the trails in and out and hunt them. It can't be that difficult. Where's the food, they're coming here... some where in between. If you go into this small little spot of yours and bust them, it's done for the year more than likely at this point. Save that tactic for the last week of the season or something.
#23
RE: Hunting Deer Beds?
From your diagram, there are only two deer trails coming into and out of the bedding area. I'd try to set up along one of these trails, about 20 yards off the trail.
And make sure the wind isn't blowing your scent toward the bedding area.
And make sure the wind isn't blowing your scent toward the bedding area.