DEER BED PICS

[dan]

Scouting should dictate which bedding areas you hunt...
Any given buck probably has about 30 or 40 places he beds, maybe less, maybe more... He beds certain ones in certain wind directions, and he has certain places he prefers "A primary bedding area" But he shifts between these spots based on food, wind direction, amount of cover vegetation ( early vs late ) and predator intrusion ( human, yote, wolf, Dog, etc.)
It seems the younger deer often locate near the food in poor bedding areas when the pressure is low, but mature bucks have spots to bed where they receive very little human intrusion all year. Its really amazing how few buck bedding areas there really are in the marshes and woodlots we hunt.
Its our job as hunters to learn each of these bedding areas, or at least as many as possible, and the weak points that allow these bucks to be killed.
Once you know the majority of bedding areas it starts to all come together as you can start to guess which bedding area he is in, and which ones you should bump to move the buck to get him to go to a bedding area that is easier to kill at...
I do agree the hunting seems to get better in the public marshes after hunting pressure arrives which seems to lend credence to the statement about bucks moving to the "hideouts" do to pressure... Thats probably true to a certain extent, but I think its deer getting shifted around a bit from the secure bedding areas as a hunter stumbles into one of the bedding areas, and probably a few we have not found yet...

[Swampthing]

Here,s a couple views of a new Buck Bed I found last weekend.

[dan]

Bumping this topic... Anybody have any new bed photo's?

[DEERSLAYER]

No, I'm waiting for the snow to melt, but I'm glad you bumped this up. I don't remember seeing it before. Not sure how I missed it.

[Swampthing]

I hopefully will have a few tommorow .I,m taking off work to check out a new area.

[Dewey]

Here are a few beds from last spring.




These are a few recent beds I found.

[dan]

Great pic's Dewey!

[Autumn Ninja]

Here are a few from a ton of map work and a little walking.

[headgear]

I will take some bed picks soon and post them. I love looking at buck beds.

[dreaming bucks]

I am going out tomorrow morning ( saturday ), and hopefully I will have some pics when I come home, and maybe a nice shed or two.

[dan]

Wow great pics Ninja! I like the one with the shed antler.

[headgear]

I will take some bed picks soon and post them. I love looking at buck beds.

Well I took some pics but the camera is now in the garbage because nothing turned out. I was due for an upgrade anyway, only problem is I probably get the wife's old cam and she gets a new one.

[kenn1320]

Bringing this thread back to the top.





Found dead buck in this bed. See his spine in the weeds?


Bed is at the end of this downed tree, see next pic




Almost didn't find this bed, it was tucked up under this bush.


Same bed as above, different perspective


This bed was surrounded by water that was about 10" deep.


Snake was in this bed.


Actually saw the buck bust out of this bed, thats how I found it.




I jumped a yearling out of this bed.

[Zap]

Very cool pics, Kenn.

[Buckfever]

Here a couple same buck off the track. Kills me that I can't make this hunt this year. I'll put the cam up after the rut for the balance of the season up there, to get some more intelligence on him.