Hawthorne wrote:I like to do this right after our gun season ends to find where they go when their pressured. It's usually always in hard to get to remotes spots of public. I've done it to years in a row on one piece of public. This year there was a good buck in there. Definitely getting my attention for next season
It was very helpful in doing this cause in both beds I saw all the bucks that were bedding in them. No need in placing a camera there now. Able to place them else where to monitor some other beds that I just can't get in on to get a look.
Something else interesting and wish the heck I would of known about the second bed the year before. I had a camera placed roughly a half mile from it. Was getting pictures of A huge split g2 buck that would of went over 160. I could not pin point where exactly he was coming from. Ran into another guy hunting the area and he was pretty open in telling me about a huge split G2 buck he was after. He had seen him come out of a tree line between fields. The light came on then cause I knew where his stand was located. He only rifle hunts and uses a climber that I had seen one day cutting through the area the year. I never dreamed that a buck would be bedding in there but sure enough. I placed a camera nearby early this year and it was not him. One day I decided to dive in and take a look. Huge rubs from the year before. No doubt the big boy was living here but found out he was killed on the private property that border this land only a few hundred yards away. At least now I know all that and in the years to come if a big boy shows in this area I know where he will be and how to get in on him.