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I found this the other day while out scouting. I think the first time I heard about this was from Dan Infalt. He commented that deer, especially bucks, will bed in locations where they can watch for hunters entering the woods. This spot is just that. There is a main access lane leading off a gravel road down a hill and across a deep creek. Along one side of the hill overlooking the lane and creek is a huge red oak. At the base of this tree is a tangle of blow down logs and brush and tucked up under this tangle is a little bench worn down flat and smooth from use. In this spot were some very large deer turds. The bed is not 20 yards off that lane, but it is situated where anyone walking down the path to enter the woods would be visible to the buck as they walked by, but the buck would remain unseen due to the tangle of brush and the fact that the hunter is walking away. If the buck felt he needed to escape he could bound up and out and be gone down that hillside along that creek and be gone. It's just the perfect spot to monitor hunter access to that big block of timber and I bet 99% of the folks accessing that block use that trail to go in.