Guys I got 10 acres of hillside that goes up a mountain with about 5 benches from the bottom to the top. I have already put one kill plot on the bench close to the bottom. But I wanted some.more advice on my plan for the rest. I plan on finding the benches they use most and making them clearer and hinge cutting the benches below and above them to thicken them up. I would think they would use the clear benches for travel and drop into the thick to bed. Goal is to funnel deer to just one or two benches and potentially have them bed on the far south side. I would put a stand on the south end looking over a bench for rut. What y'all think.

Corn feeders on bench in middle

Impossible to say without putting boots on the ground.

I think what I would do is spend the additional time establishing a bedding area by hinge cutting a larger area than I planned. I am not sure your plan to clear a bench would make them use it for traveling I have had better luck on horns hunting thick areas - not open hardwoods in the mountains. They like an edge so envision that and maybe that edge can be the entire bench you cleaned up? Hard to say like 2Dogs said.