Deer Bedding Areas
Each whitetail has a different personality some are warier than others while others are a bit reckless.
Deer bedding areas. So don t be surprised if a buck gets bumped from its bed then returns. Improving bedding areas once you know where these bedding areas are found you can improve them to make them even more attractive to the deer. Realtree has eight common bedding habits that mature bucks live and die by.
According to realtree experts bedded bucks tend to be warier in the. How cautious bucks are varies from buck to buck. You just might get a second chance.
Jordan outdoor enterprises mini ez hangers by realtree. In areas with cover and food you have a really good chance of finding a deer bedding area. Good buck bedding areas serve a purpose.
This whole process of creating an optimal bedding area for deer doesn t take a lot of money but it does take spending the time to pick a spot create a barrier bring in the sun control burns and do some hinge cutting. After that you ll have created an area deer want to bed. In the fall deer prefer to bed in grassy areas rather than rough areas with sticks and stones.
Wooded islands or peninsulas scattered in swamps and cattail marshes feeder ridge points in hill country. This will let grasses grow that provide a nice bad as well as food. If the cover is thick sloped and near food and water move a stand or elevated blind to this area pronto.
One way to improve a bedding area is to hinge cut a few trees during the winter. Cut a few trees to allow the sun to reach the forest floor. Finding buck bedding areas the hunting public dives into much more detail in this video podcast about how to find buck beds using aerial maps and how they then hunt them but in general there are a few key things to look for.
Why to hunt a deer bedding area bedding areas are meant to be taken advantage of and hunted. To grow grass it takes sunlight. 1 beds often difficult to discern in buck bedding areas 2 lots of off trail deer tracks fresh and old 3 lots of off trail droppings fresh and old and 4 in the case of older bucks 6 30 antler rubs within 1 10 acre area fresh or old.
I ve learned what areas look likely but i ve never studied how to locate and identify bedding areas where bucks hang out. That doesn t mean that every bedding area is actually huntable but instead that there is no other location that a wise old monster is vulnerable within than when he is in his most sacred portion of habitat. You have to know the right terrain feeding areas and more to find deer bedding areas.
This is a great way to hold bucks on your property and make sure they do not get to comfortable at the neighbors. I ll admit to some gaps in my general education as a deer hunter. Take a few minutes for a 360 degree view of the surroundings.
Deer signs identifying bedding areas are as follows. Beds of adult does and their young are generally easy to spot and identify. Spook deer and that bedding area is potentially a bust.