futuredoc
Senior Member
A friend and I got in a conversation about deer movement, and I realized how little I really knew about it. Can anyone tell me if mature bucks use the same bedding areas day after day, or do these areas change periodically. I assume it probably depends on terrain, hunting pressure etc. If bucks did use such defined areas, then it would seem to me that the likelyhood of seeing a mature deer on more than one occaision would be much higher than than I believe it to be. Most mature deer are seen once and then never again. So I guess what I am getting at is when you hunt a bedding area, are you hunting that spot because the deer may be in there or may not, or are you hunting in hopes that the deer that are constantly in there will move before dark or after daylight. Where is coondawg? The thick areas in Ga present so many possible bedding areas that one could surmise that a buck could bed down in one thicket in the morning, get up and move a mile to feed and then bed down in another area the next morning.
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