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let's talk Bedding areas
#1082641
09/19/14 11:02 AM
09/19/14 11:02 AM
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Abram
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I hunt down at Oakmulgee and to be honest I am a lousy hunter with that begin said, I have looked for bedding areas and I have only found one that I truly believed used on a regular basis. I have been told to look for matures pines on a slope where the prevailing wind would be at the deers back and where they could sun themselves in the morning. Others have said to look for pine thickets, so thick you would have to crawl through them, I have looked for and found both. What, in your opinion, should a hunter look for in the hilly big woods like Oakmulgee?
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Abram]
#1082773
09/19/14 02:32 PM
09/19/14 02:32 PM
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2Dogs
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Not just a thick area, but a quiet area. That may be a thicket right behind a house, just out of sight of the huntin' club cabin or in the middle of a field or pasture. Mature bucks are like grumpy old men, they don't like to be bothered. Some times they almost hide in plain sight.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: 2Dogs]
#1082853
09/19/14 03:41 PM
09/19/14 03:41 PM
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Posts: 471 Baldwin, Alabama
jmack66
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I've seen bucks on our property bed right up against the highway. Guess its where they feel safe..
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Abram]
#1082856
09/19/14 03:45 PM
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daniel white
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Booner
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I have jumped ALOT of big mature bucks while rabbit hunting. I'm talking about walk past them and they jump up 25 yards behind you, or bust up 10 feet in front of you. Its always in some sure enough nasty stuff.
"You do and it will be the biggest mistake you ever made, you Texas brush popper" John Wayne
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Abram]
#1082857
09/19/14 03:45 PM
09/19/14 03:45 PM
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Turkey_neck
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I've jumped deer bedded in lots of areas that aren't ideal bedding areas. I've been in my tree and watched deer bed in the wide open on oakmulgee also. In Alabama you never know where a deer is gonna bed honestly. One day they bed here the next they bed there. Just go hunt the sign and try to envision where all they might come from you will be right 40% of the time.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Abram]
#1082866
09/19/14 03:48 PM
09/19/14 03:48 PM
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ridgestalker
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Where ever they don't smell where a human walks thru. Tiny bench on the side of a bluff. Thick cutover. Close to houses etc without dogs. They like to have more than one option if jumped.The highest point on a ridgetop gives a buck a lot of advantages and options to get away.
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Turkey_neck]
#1082869
09/19/14 03:50 PM
09/19/14 03:50 PM
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2Dogs
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If you have only a few obvious bedding areas, and they get hunted, tramped out, dogs run through or what ever, that old buck is gonna think outside the box. Now the flipside, how would ya'll like to hunt a few thousand acres of mountain, hardwood cut over that is all bedding area? Then it's more like, well where don't they bed.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: 2Dogs]
#1082934
09/19/14 04:33 PM
09/19/14 04:33 PM
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Turkey_neck
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If you have only a few obvious bedding areas, and they get hunted, tramped out, dogs run through or what ever, that old buck is gonna think outside the box. Now the flipside, how would ya'll like to hunt a few thousand acres of mountain, hard wood cut over that is all bedding area? Then it's more like, well where don't they bed. I'm taking this as an invitation so when do I need to be there?
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: scrubbuck]
#1082939
09/19/14 04:37 PM
09/19/14 04:37 PM
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2Dogs
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2Dogs, you just trying to open up that Hillbilly vs flatland debate again... No, just a little something to thing about. I'm glad season is near and we're finally talking about........deer huntin'. Happy, happy, happy!
Last edited by 2Dogs; 09/19/14 04:41 PM.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: Turkey_neck]
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09/19/14 04:38 PM
09/19/14 04:38 PM
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2Dogs
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If you have only a few obvious bedding areas, and they get hunted, tramped out, dogs run through or what ever, that old buck is gonna think outside the box. Now the flipside, how would ya'll like to hunt a few thousand acres of mountain, hard wood cut over that is all bedding area? Then it's more like, well where don't they bed. I'm taking this as an invitation so when do I need to be there? Wait patiently for my signal. I think we all need to hunt with Shaw, he has more than his limit of big bucks, he can use the help.
Last edited by 2Dogs; 09/19/14 04:44 PM.
"Why do you ask"?
Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: let's talk Bedding areas
[Re: scrubbuck]
#1083091
09/19/14 06:20 PM
09/19/14 06:20 PM
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AUstan23
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Easy way to find bedding areas in my experience is to look on satellite photos for decent sized areas where sunlight can hit the ground (thinned pines, etc.). Sunlight to the ground means thick undergrowth which means safety for deer. Went scouting today on public land and bumped three groups of deer in one area of thinned pines (it was dang thick too). Guess where i'll be opening day if there's a west wind.
It is easier to fool a man than to convince him he has been fooled.
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