Deer move beds if wind changes?
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Deer move beds if wind changes?
Title sums it up.. curious everyone's take bedded deer mostly in hill terrain where they bed with say a S wind that switches to a W wind. Do they change up beds kid day depending on wind?
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Re: Deer move beds if wind changes?
Absolutely. If the wind isn’t in their favor they’ll get up and move. Last year rifle opener in MN where I was hunting the wind spun 180 degrees at about 10:30. A string of shots rang for about 20-30 minutes after a relatively quiet am.
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Re: Deer move beds if wind changes?
Definitely.
I see them dropping off of ridges/points and cross the bottoms going to the next one.
I see them dropping off of ridges/points and cross the bottoms going to the next one.
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Re: Deer move beds if wind changes?
A lot of the bedding areas I find allows for about 100 degrees of wind direction. So the move would be sutle.
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Re: Deer move beds if wind changes?
Although he is not a 'bed' hunter, this is one thing that Mark Drury has said that I have found to be really true. It seems as though the first new wind after a few days of stagnate winds results in early buck movement. This is most likely because the wind is no longer good where they are bedding.
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