Buck beds without rubs?

[hunter10]

Found a small thick patch of scrub brush with dead falls located between 2 standing corn fields. I located 3 beds all with a tree or dead fall to their backside. No rubs nearby and ground to hard to show a print. The beds were only 10-30 yds apart for different wind directions . They seem to "hidden" and hard to hunt to make them a doe bedding area.

Any thoughts? Found this spot by accident while helping farmer cut a fallen tree. As the saying goes "look in the out of the way spots".

Id like to setup my brother on this spot because it is a short walk from the truck.

[PK_]

If there aren't the right variety and size trees near the bed, many times there won't be rubs near the bed, by default.

[Stanley]

My guess would be bucks use the beds until the corn is picked. Very common to see this happen.

[backstraps]

I wouldnt be too concerned with the beds not having any rubs unless you know for sure there a several bucks in the area. I think many times where the buck beds have plenty of rubs, that means there are several bucks in the area using the same beds.

[hunter_mike]

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[hunter10]

Thanks Mike, Great thread

[whitetailassasin]

From the photo you posted those look to be buck beds. Based like you said wind direction. Only one way to find out and that's hunt them. I agree with Stanley about the corn providing the cover so earlier the better. Could also be bachelor bedding. I've noticed in the bachelor bedding I find that the younger bucks will bed in closer proximity and the older buck will be a little away. Almost as if he's set up in the best safety bed, and uses them as satellite protection from there direction.

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[Zap]

What is the bed size and what do the tracks look like. Are the tracks there all being made by the same deer or are there different tracks from different deer. If the corn is standing the spot does not offer any visibility on the downwind side.

[MOBIGBUCKS]

Any pictures of the bed itself?

It looks to me that spot is a natural travel corridor with three standing intersecting cornfields. I'd be bowhunting that on the first rainy or cold front day when your season opens...

On non corn years that spot will be null and void.

[hunter10]

I couldnt locate tracks. Its been dry here so there's nothing to show. I agree about the standing corn likely being the only time they would bed here.

here is the view of the thick area. I was standing on the South side of it


Bed for S, SE, maybe E winds


Bed for N,NE, maybe E wind


Bed pictures arent the greatest. the beds are bigger and more matted down. I think I was standing in a couple of them

[dan]

Buck beds... Its pretty typical for bucks to bed like that. The biggest buck I ever shot was bedded under a willow tree and there wasn't a rub within 100 yards. I watched that buck bed there for two years and saw several other bucks bed there.

[jonsimoneau]

I killed the buck in my avatar with a very similar situation to this. It was extremely sparse cover out in the middle of nowhere where two fields joined like that. He was bedding in a little chunk of grass pretty much like that. Same thing. I knew I had better get him fast before the corn came out or he'd be relocating to the main woods a mile away. Luckily for me it worked out.

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