Post your buck bed pics!

[AC Rider]

Hill Country


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[Stanley]

Great thread.

[admiral04]

Hill country/big woods

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[Timmy]

[Timmy]

Here are some rubs from in his staging area. in the first pic the rub comes up to my chest!

[Timmy]

[Timmy]

This is an interesting bed. A buck will lay between these trees, almost behind them, and use the trees as cover on his sides sticking his head out from between the trees, and with cattails on his backside he will be very well protected. Found alot of hair in this bed as well as a shed.

[dan]

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[Primetime41]

During my scouting I've found a few "classic" buck beds where the ground is almost bare dirt with hair in the bed. But more often I've been finding potential beds that I'm just not 100% sure are buck beds. I posted an example. This was near the tip of a remote island in the cattails, that is almost too thick and nasty to hunt on. It's like a small cave in the brush and the grass is somewhat matted but not really worn down. Do you guys think this is a buck bed?

[dan]

During my scouting I've found a few "classic" buck beds where the ground is almost bare dirt with hair in the bed. But more often I've been finding potential beds that I'm just not 100% sure are buck beds. I posted an example. This was near the tip of a remote island in the cattails, that is almost too thick and nasty to hunt on. It's like a small cave in the brush and the grass is somewhat matted but not really worn down. Do you guys think this is a buck bed?

Yes... I would say thats a buck bed... You might get the occasional lone doe that uses it also, but thats the type of bed a buck makes and uses. He probably beds there for a short time for specific reasons... For example, acorns on the island maybe? or pressure on the mainland?
They tend to prefer the predominant down wind side of the island, especially if it comes to a point.

[msailor]

Primetime, I'm not the buck bed expert but the photos look "bucky" to me. Were there any rubs around the bed or leading to or from it? Large tracks? When I enter a big buck's bedroom I get a really eerie feeling, maybe it's a six sense... Some may make fun of that, but I would ask you what does your gut tell you based on surrounding sign?

[dan]

The looks of that bed tells me that it gets used early season when the branches above make the bed like a cave...

[Racks&Beards]

Came across this bed yesterday while out turkey scouting on some public. Based off the small tracks in the bed, he's just a young'n

Close up of the bed, you can see the hair and some droppings


Here's a view from behind the bed looking down the hill. There was a hang on stand still in a tree about 10 yards behind me too.


ariel of the location, and the arrow is the direction I took the second pic

[msailor]

Some of the more prototypical beds I've found this spring:

Flat open River Bottom ground, found in a small island of trees in an ag field




This bed was on a subtle rise on a relatively flat property, Large ag field and limited access from upwind; (second pic is the view from the bed)


notice his affinity for BL smooths and huffing spray paint ...this guy apparently is a slob in the literal sense of the word


This is a bed found on a field edge, the buck can sit in his bed and watch all the activity occuring on two nearby farmsteads and see about 1/4 mile directly downwind.


This bed also occurred on a subtle rise on relatively flat property, LARGE ag field and limited access from upwind.


This bed was found at the tip of a wooded/wet finger in a CRP field


This bed was found near the tip of the same wooded/wet finger in a CRP field only further down the drainage (Notice in the second picture, the gun stand easily visible from the buck's bed).

[wickedbruiser]

2014 bed I recovered my buck in. light snowfall covered the ground before checking it in daylight. So I marked it up as reference.



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