dan wrote:checkerfred wrote:Subject: DEER BED PICSdan wrote:checkerfred wrote:So I've been trying to find beds in hill country. It's been tough only finding one for sure buck bed which was a small buck by the size, and I did find 2-3 areas with doe beds. I did find one bed the other day on a point but it was further down the point than what I thought a buck would bed, and again wasn't huge...maybe small buck big doe...no rubs around. It was hard to see but I did find hair. So how do you know for sure if some areas are beds? I've seen grassy areas with spots where the grass was much much lower than other areas but no hair. So is hair the biggest indicator?
at the scouting workshop and during some private scouting trips for guys I have noticed outside of Wisconsin a lot of "hill country" is more rolling, and there is no defined "military crest". On rolling hills the beds often are not in the same spot every day, they actually most likely even move several times during the day. I know this because I know why they are bedded there. They want to smell both above and below at the same time... Wind speed, air pressure, temperature, sun location, speed of thermal rise, exact wind direction, etc. are all going to change exactly where the wind tunnel is on a rolling hill.
So, you need to determine which points they are bedding on, rather than the exact bed... Then determine how they get in and out of that hill, so you know where to ambush.
So how do you find those points? Just by hoping to find one bed then know they use that point? This is killing me lol
By the sign going in and out... For instance, when we did the Kentucky workshop I found one really great bedding area that had all the ingredients and was obviously a great spot, but there were other areas I thought were probably pretty good, but were less obvious. One was a ridge that dead ended into about three points that were rolling. The points had beds on them, but they were hard to see and scattered cause the points were rounded. But, where all the points came together you could see good entry trails with big rubs coming in... Thats right where I would be hunting. 100 to 200 yards from any of the beds, hunting all the fingers at once...
My suggestion would be if your unsure, throw a stand at it and see what happens...
If your in hill country its easy to scout cause 90% of the buck bedding is going to be at or around the same elevation and you only have to walk that elevation line... If you walk all of that elevation, you can be sure you have walked right thru the big buck beds. Knowing that makes it a little easier to hunt the areas that looked the best.
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