Doe or buck bed, can you tell the difference?

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horsechitt

Beat me to it.

Just give it a sniff. Easy to tell the difference.

Yep! One smells like Summers Eve, and the other like Natti Lites!

in the heat of the rut maybe, rest of the year horsechitt.

Fred has a way with words...........

Exactly! 👍

I have found bucks do like to have cover overhead or behind them and a single bed is usually a buck. The rest I don't know about.

Bucks will lay down straight, does will lay down curled up so they can lick themselves. Yes I just made that up. Sounds good though. I think I'll make a YouTube video about it.

If you find a big buck hideout there will be multiple beds in a small area. Bucks bedding on ridges will have multiple beds, according to wind direction. They will bed looking downslope and downwind. They can see anything coming upwind towards them and smell anything upwind of them on the other side of the ridge.

This^^^ if you find a small area in good cover with multiple beds close together, you've stumbled into his bedroom.

Yep, and he'll always have several escape options. Another indicator is a cluster of big rubs very close by. Does will often plop down where ever and when ever .

I must have looked at a hundred one week in Penn. walking around the snow. All looked the same to me. Just melted spots. Its all about they pee when they get up.

Check Dan Infalt on YouTube or on his website thehuntingbeast.com. I think he has several videos and there are topics on the website.

I think there may be sign that could be used to determine difference but not 100% of the time.

Garbage

When you find beds under a pole barn, especially near kayaks, you can almost always be sure they were made by bucks.