Well my friends Its mid February and its time for my backside to pull cameras and collect info in our known areas for next year.
Also its time to discover new areas and keep up on the new state pieces that will be considered public next year in both states i hunt.
In my honest opinion this time of year alot of people are searching for some answers of why’s and why nots.
This is definitely the time of year to discover alot of good intel and maybe get a grasp on a timeline of activity in certain areas.
The problem im seeing guys are getting into is taking the term buck beds literally, and pretty much watching youtube gods who hunt and scout 7 days a week
this is a dream life or season most of us do not live.
We or most gave jobs, families, obligations, responsibilities at home that
The real work begins now but theres alot more to do than just discover buck beds. That is just one piece of the puzzle that needs to be considered.
I see guys going to workshops and paid scouting outings to learn what they can learn themselves if they just put a bit more thought into what they are seeing.
I am very guilty of this same thing as I dove into it around 2014-15.
I Watched every one of the you tube videos bought the dvd’s and got sucked into marketing gimmiks that states “ find the buck beds buy this and that and you will kill mature bucks every year”. Lol
I learned one thing , buck bedding is like i said earlier “just a piece of the puzzle”.
In my opinion at least where i hunt the few things that need to be put together are these and its suer simple concept. Food, Pressure,,bedding , does ( which pretty much is near food), and after the rut it all goes full circle.
Not all beds are going to be used all year unless there is a constant food supply with minimal pressure.
find those super thick areas that transition between food and bedding.
Yes I do get as close as i can to bedding as i can but thats where entry ways are so important and i can go on and on about that.
jyst a heads up for my peoples who think that they are going to find a few buck beds or buck bedding areas that its not a almost sure thing like some of these so called pro hunters claim.
That is just a piece of a large puzzle that takes months and months to assemble intel together that most of the time crumbles away with one small mistake or left out detail.
its not as easy to be consistent year after year as some claim it is
To achieve that it takes a-lot if dedication and time all year.
Chasing down, figuring some sort of pattern a certain time of year on a certain so called mature public land buck.Is very difficult to most especially with limited time.
I am by far not any kind of expert on anything in life especially deer hunting but I’ve been doing it a long time and I’m pretty confident in things i believe because Ive seen things time and time again.
Anyone needing any advice or just love to chat about deer. Feel free to pm me.
We are all members here to help each other and its a privilege to belong to in my opinion the best forum for deer and saddle info on the internet
Its time for long long walk my people.
Stay on the edges of thick ir just inside of the thick just like the more educated bucks do during daylight hours.
I try to Look at a spot and think like a buck.
I ask myself “would i feel safe walking, bedding, or browsing here in daylight hours?”
If you have any doubt move on til you don't.
this will save big amounts of time with meaningless scouting and keep you in spots where the odds of daytime appearances are high.
please be safe, please enjoy what your doing and do not put pressure on yourself like a-lot of us do or have in the past.
Also its time to discover new areas and keep up on the new state pieces that will be considered public next year in both states i hunt.
In my honest opinion this time of year alot of people are searching for some answers of why’s and why nots.
This is definitely the time of year to discover alot of good intel and maybe get a grasp on a timeline of activity in certain areas.
The problem im seeing guys are getting into is taking the term buck beds literally, and pretty much watching youtube gods who hunt and scout 7 days a week
this is a dream life or season most of us do not live.
We or most gave jobs, families, obligations, responsibilities at home that
The real work begins now but theres alot more to do than just discover buck beds. That is just one piece of the puzzle that needs to be considered.
I see guys going to workshops and paid scouting outings to learn what they can learn themselves if they just put a bit more thought into what they are seeing.
I am very guilty of this same thing as I dove into it around 2014-15.
I Watched every one of the you tube videos bought the dvd’s and got sucked into marketing gimmiks that states “ find the buck beds buy this and that and you will kill mature bucks every year”. Lol
I learned one thing , buck bedding is like i said earlier “just a piece of the puzzle”.
In my opinion at least where i hunt the few things that need to be put together are these and its suer simple concept. Food, Pressure,,bedding , does ( which pretty much is near food), and after the rut it all goes full circle.
Not all beds are going to be used all year unless there is a constant food supply with minimal pressure.
find those super thick areas that transition between food and bedding.
Yes I do get as close as i can to bedding as i can but thats where entry ways are so important and i can go on and on about that.
jyst a heads up for my peoples who think that they are going to find a few buck beds or buck bedding areas that its not a almost sure thing like some of these so called pro hunters claim.
That is just a piece of a large puzzle that takes months and months to assemble intel together that most of the time crumbles away with one small mistake or left out detail.
its not as easy to be consistent year after year as some claim it is
To achieve that it takes a-lot if dedication and time all year.
Chasing down, figuring some sort of pattern a certain time of year on a certain so called mature public land buck.Is very difficult to most especially with limited time.
I am by far not any kind of expert on anything in life especially deer hunting but I’ve been doing it a long time and I’m pretty confident in things i believe because Ive seen things time and time again.
Anyone needing any advice or just love to chat about deer. Feel free to pm me.
We are all members here to help each other and its a privilege to belong to in my opinion the best forum for deer and saddle info on the internet
Its time for long long walk my people.
Stay on the edges of thick ir just inside of the thick just like the more educated bucks do during daylight hours.
I try to Look at a spot and think like a buck.
I ask myself “would i feel safe walking, bedding, or browsing here in daylight hours?”
If you have any doubt move on til you don't.
this will save big amounts of time with meaningless scouting and keep you in spots where the odds of daytime appearances are high.
please be safe, please enjoy what your doing and do not put pressure on yourself like a-lot of us do or have in the past.