How far are your sets from buck beds.

[GRFox]

This year will be my first setting up on bedding, most are 75-150 in the open hardwoods.

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[Autumn Ninja]

Most range from 100 to 200 yards.

[Swampthing]

....I also think hunting public land is different and a more aggressive approach is necessary as you must to be the first hunter to have an encounter with a certain buck.

Not only that, but highly pressured deer rarely venture very far from their bed until after dark.. The
closer you are, the better chance you have of catching him during shooting hours..

Right, it ,s a fine-line.

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[Swampthing]

I had a buck last year that gave me only 2 tree options. 1 was 125 yards from bed. On that hunt the buck came under me with no shooting light left. Tree # 2 was only 35 or 40 yards from bed. I had sticks placed and was 1 strap away from setting stand. And one of the strap buckles swung into my stand. Clunk and the buck busted outta his bed.

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[Edcyclopedia]

Most range from 100 to 200 yards.

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I'm too clumbsy to get any closer

[whitetail007]

most are 30 to 100 yards. the area i hunt early season is one big bedding area with afew corn fields around the outer edges and a CRP right in the center of it all.

[Stanley]

....I also think hunting public land is different and a more aggressive approach is necessary as you must to be the first hunter to have an encounter with a certain buck.

Not only that, but highly pressured deer rarely venture very far from their bed until after dark.. The closer you are, the better chance you have of catching him during shooting hours..

Agree.

[Stanley]

I had a buck last year that gave me only 2 tree options. 1 was 125 yards from bed. On that hunt the buck came under me with no shooting light left. Tree # 2 was only 35 or 40 yards from bed. I had sticks placed and was 1 strap away from setting stand. And one of the strap buckles swung into my stand. Clunk and the buck busted outta his bed.

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Would you that bad luck or bad preparation? Just curious.

[JRM6868]

It depends on the terrain I am hunting. Hill country open woods about 100-150 yards in an old clearcut 50-100 depending on the area and how open or thick it is.

[Swampthing]

I had a buck last year that gave me only 2 tree options. 1 was 125 yards from bed. On that hunt the buck came under me with no shooting light left. Tree # 2 was only 35 or 40 yards from bed. I had sticks placed and was 1 strap away from setting stand. And one of the strap buckles swung into my stand. Clunk and the buck busted outta his bed.


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Would you that bad luck or bad preparation? Just curious.

Bad preperation, I was rushing the set. And that.s when a guy often slips up.

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[BigHunt]

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Not only that, but highly pressured deer rarely venture very far from their bed until after dark.. The closer you are, the better chance you have of catching him during shooting hours..

thtas when you hunt the staging areas ........."ive" noticed in hill country that even pressured bucks will stage with in 40 to 50 yards of there beds

i think the only way they stay bedded until dark is when there alerted or know something or someone is near by

[KLEMZ]

Bad preperation, I was rushing the set. And that.s when a guy often slips up.

were you pressed for time or just excited? This will be my first year setting up close to bedded bucks and i can see myself making that mistake.

[dan]

TIP:
Go real early... Bucks are "groggy" midday but lay in there beds more alert mid to late afternoon.
You can get away with a little more setting up early, and if you accidentally make a noise it allows enough time for the buck to forget about it... Also, being early affords you the ability to take your time and go snail slow.

[BigHunt]

Bad preperation, I was rushing the set. And that.s when a guy often slips up.

were you pressed for time or just excited? This will be my first year setting up close to bedded bucks and i can see myself making that mistake.

some friendly advice go slow, slow down..did i mention slow .... slow is the key you have all the time in the afternoon to make it to yor stand with plenty of time... you need to make time if you dont have it wait to hunt it another day when you have that time , i also dont like rusing into my set ups, i like to go slow ,look ,listen, and feel the wind, it all goes together with success.

[Swampthing]

The wind changed that day , so it was a spur of the moment hunt. I thought the stars were alligning for me that day. Oh well, if you never screw up ,you never learn anything new.