Hunting Deer Beds?

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12-19-2006, 05:42 PM

#21

Matt/TN

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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....

12-21-2006, 01:54 PM

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Hotburn76

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Location: Findlay, Ohio

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RE: Hunting Deer Beds?

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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.

Thanks for all the replies guys! What you say is true Dave about the area. It is small, only thirty five acres. The problem about where is the food is I am in northwest Ohio, The spot is surrounded by food! It's farm country up here and the corn and beans are every where, hunting food sources up here is like looking for a drink in a swimming pool! The only time food sources can show up is in February when there may or may not be snow on the ground and the corn fields are starting to get picked over. What makes this spot "hot" in my book is there is a major preserve to the north side of it. It is huge maybe five or six hundred acres. I think this is just an extension of that place. I also do not have any permission for the surrounding properties, only this one. What has rubbed me wrong is the main trail coming in this area from the preserve on the north is off the tracks. I think if I could figure out how to set up there I would be good to go! I may try and take a pic of the track trail and repost and maybe someone could see something I don't. Again, thanks to all!

12-21-2006, 02:59 PM

#23

gzg38b

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Location: Flushing Michigan

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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.