tgreeno wrote:Lockdown wrote:Just keep in mind there will be a lot of fall range shifting the next couple weeks. If that's a highly desirable bed it's not impossible a bigger buck moves in and takes over. Multiple bucks can and will use the same bed through out the year.
*edit- tgreeno beat me to it
Great minds think alike LD!
Lockdown wrote:rfickes87 wrote:BA-IV wrote:I've always wondered if I located a buck bed and it wasn't a buck I wanted to target just yet if he would likely be there next year if he wasn't pushed hard and made it through the season...with another year means more maturity, maybe more dominance, maybe he whips another buck and takes over his homersnge or better bedding areas.
Yes that makes sense. When I come across a buck I'm not interested in I just move to another area and keep scouting. Save that spot for another year.
Just keep in mind there will be a lot of fall range shifting the next couple weeks. If that's a highly desirable bed it's not impossible a bigger buck moves in and takes over. Multiple bucks can and will use the same bed through out the year.
*edit- tgreeno beat me to it
Thanks guys, you gave me some added confidence. Its funny... I too had thought about the possibility that once the hard antlers come and they make that shift, that a new buck(s) could move into this area. I just sometimes don't believe myself haha. I've been burned before where summer bedding is vacated but I don't think that will happen to this spot. When I found it in February it was the only spot for a good in the area that I could find with consistent bedding and deer sign. So if the deer were spending December/January in here, the highest pressure of the year, well then its high end real-estate for these deer in my eyes. I'll just leave it alone now until the season starts.
Some other observations I saw...
-A handful of does and some fawns are bedding in this area. Along the deer path where this camera is, the green briers and other vegetation is chewed down. Telling me they don't need to leave the area for food (many oaks around too).
-Also, when I first hung this camera 7/30-17 I said before about jumping these 2 bucks as they drank from a creek. I walked in on them from the West. Well the wind was an East wind. So it makes sense I was easily able to walk up to them before they ran off. But my point is that they were using this bedding area that day on and East wind. This bedding is on an East facing slope, So you'd think they'd want to bed here leeward to a West wind, not an East wind. But perhaps since its a prime bedding location they feel safe here on any wind?
"Pressure and Time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure, and time..."