Clear cut bedding

[Elite]

This clear cut was finished in late spring 2020 according to HuntStand. With your help, I need to understand how bucks use clear cuts in the late season. You can see from the aerial that there’s an interior transition of trees they left alone.
I watched the big woods video Dan did so I understand that does will bed in it during the rut and bucks will travel it on the downwind side. In late season, however, do bucks usually bed wind to back (clear cut being at their back) looking downwind, and turn around to feed in the clear cut? Is 1.5 years after the cut too early to hunt it?

On a side note, there’s a swamp to the north I’ve never set foot in but have pins in spots I want to scout. To the left of the picture is a busy road. I’ve never set foot in this cut.

[NorthStar]

I would strongly suggest you check this thread out...

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=39176-

Hope this helps, my friend!

[headgear]

Any topos of the area?

[Elite]

Any topos of the area?

I don’t like Hunstand’s topi feature but here it is

[Nick grider]

My experience is that all clear cuts are used differently. Depending on how thick they are, they could be just a food source. The thick ones where their is bedding I typically look for little openings inside the clear cut to hunt. You're a bit forced to do that because you cant chop shooting lanes. It leaves limited hunting options and I usually hunt them on the ground but they can be some fantastic deer hunting. Not many people have the guts to hang a tree seat on a 3" poplar and hunt a 15 yard opening but when you see deer in them, they have nooooo idea you're there.