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I think hunters tend to over think buck bedding areas. I think it is more a matter of them finding a place where humans and other predators (we're not the only ones they worry about) seldom venture. Add in the correct elevation, cover, wind direction, visibilty on the down wind side, and you have a bedding area where they want to be.

I don't think there's a ton of logic involved, just pure prey instincts to avoid a threat. They find the places where we have trouble getting into quietly or getting into at all. If their noses and instincts sense that predator intrusion has increased to an unacceptable level, they respond accordingly and move to the next area that has the solitude they're looking for.

It's just what they do, what their DNA is built for. Avoiding predators, staying alive another day. It's how I survived high school when I was an 85 lb freshman.
 
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If you're going to kill alot of them, you have to get used to running into them. Once you start freaking out about entering the woods, afraid to check out certain areas, etc, you are going to seriously handicap your chances at success.
 
Yea I should just be happy I’m onto some big bucks this year . I got 4 bucks I’m on that are as big or bigger as him… and in Massachusetts that’s a stud
 
Humans are not the only predators walking through the woods pushing deer around. In Wisconsin we have yotes, bears and wolfs. I have all of the above on the same cameras over and over again and the deer continue to use the same routes. I don't beleive walking through an area and bumping a deer is going to make them blow out of an area and not come back. If walking through an area would bust a buck out of there for good, I don't think I would have the same bucks coming by my cameras daily with the amount of predators that are also coming by, sometimes just hours apart. We also have bear hunters that run dogs this time of year causing ruckus in the woods. This is just what I see here in my state and I understand other states might have lower predator levels that might make humans #1 on their lists. Just my 2 cents.
 
You didn't bump him and he was there 2 hours before you ever got there. It shouldn't be a problem he may have been a long ways away.
 
Hunter260 said:
The big thing I’ve learned about cameras is that putting them out in august and expecting to kill them right there in October is very misguided. If that deer stayed in the same spot all year he never would have made it to where he is now. He’s leaving anyways. You’ll have to find him again anyways.
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I agree 100%
Gotta kill deer where they want to be at the time they want to be there.
If intrusion keeps going on or food drys up. They are gonna shift somewhere else.
Difference is with me i can kind of get that August strategy off because my season opens September 1st
If mine opened late September i would be putting cams out a bit later every year in different areas
 
luv2bowhunt said:
I think hunters tend to over think buck bedding areas. I think it is more a matter of them finding a place where humans and other predators (we're not the only ones they worry about) seldom venture. Add in the correct elevation, cover, wind direction, visibilty on the down wind side, and you have a bedding area where they want to be.

I don't think there's a ton of logic involved, just pure prey instincts to avoid a threat. They find the places where we have trouble getting into quietly or getting into at all. If their noses and instincts sense that predator intrusion has increased to an unacceptable level, they respond accordingly and move to the next area that has the solitude they're looking for.

It's just what they do, what their DNA is built for. Avoiding predators, staying alive another day. It's how I survived high school when I was an 85 lb freshman.
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I love this explanation of buck bedding.
i agree 100%. I think to many people
( as i did early on)
lol think theres a magic somthing with this bedding ****.
i will say thats the best comment on bedding ive seen in a long long time.
great stuff bro. Simple and to the point
 
Robert loper said:
I agree 100%
Gotta kill deer where they want to be at the time they want to be there.
If intrusion keeps going on or food drys up. They are gonna shift somewhere else.
Difference is with me i can kind of get that August strategy off because my season opens September 1st
If mine opened late September i would be putting cams out a bit later every year in different areas
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Mine opens sep 15. The last few years I’ve gotten really lucky and able to get on bucks while they’re in their summer patterns. I attribute that to scouting hard and hunting those early days when you know you have a shot at a buck, even when it’s 90 degrees out
 
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