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You're not sneaking in on that deer in that Pre-commercial thinning stand. Especially this time of year after the gun season. Usually they bed on the down wind side of those stands along the transition and the only way he would be tucked in there is if he had a elevation advantage. He's in there to see a long way and I would question that bed. . Some beds aren't huntable. I would set up inside the tree line far enough away where you don't get busted and try to get an observation sit off a trail where you could get high enough to see the general area and he might be headed to a likely food source. Its cold out and bucks move around here in the cold and typically a good while before dark. Plus if you were just in the area and poking around the bed its unlikely he's going to use it honestly. A sight bump is one thing but your scent in his bed isn't too good. I hunt in and around pine plantations all the time and the only place they thin pines like that is in Sussex and southern Kent county and you have to ground hunt them. The most important thing is back cover by far, so you can build up a little hide with the slash and wear a leafy or Guilly suit. But I tend to stay away from those spots because the are devoid of what you typically need to hold a good buck. And the hunt is one and done. They have terrible thermal cover in those stands in this cold weather. They have zero food and they are really featureless. You can see from one end of the other in a 100 acre stand like that. After all these years those spots like that I disregard it doesn't have the right stuff for me to think I have an advantage and its not very reliable bedding. Even prior to thinning those overstocked homogeneous pine stands are garbage for buck bedding unless they hold certain features that break them up like openings, islands of differing cover, slash piles, or patches of green briar. Just some hard earned advise
 
Are you archery only? As long as I’m with in 500 yards with my rifle I’m good.


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