School me on bedding Ares in E Tx

[BigThicketBoy]

What exactly do you look for? I was thinking young pine thickets and heavy thick cover. Is this right?

[JSF]

That coupled with some tall grasses seems to be their favorite

[hcshooter]

I look for nice comfortable pillow top style, something with a little support yet wraps around you making it great and comfy..... Ok couldn't resist


Thick areas that also provide a safe escape route for them, its normally a place high or low that way any predator is seen or heard prior to coming up on them.

[thorshammer]

Usually in tall grasses just inside the timber line where I hunt. Gives them a view of the pasture, and plenty of escape room.

[unclefish]

They will bed with something at their back.... A log, hinge cut tree, or similar. Tall native warm season grasses are a favorite too but they don't exist much in East Texas.

They will bed in different areas with different winds too.

[Jp.]

Ours is undergrowth that grew up after a select cut.
I google mapped our area and looked for areas. Then we scouted around the areas and looked for trails in and out. Put up cameras on the trails and found which was being used by what, when and so forth. We have decided to not go into these boundry areas unless a wounded deer goes in there. We only hunt outside the bedding boundries.

EDIT-- This is our hope that we dont push deer off our place and gives them a safe area.

[GarGuy]

The thickest crap on you place. Overgrown clearcuts with young pines and blackberry briars are the cats meow.

[Sleepy]

If you wouldn't want to have to chop your way into an area, that's probably a good indication of one. Sides of ridges where the sun hits in the colder months. Somewhere that the wind can carry scent to them easily. Looks for areas that have been obviously flattened out by something laying there. It can be hard to tell in sometimes because it's pretty tough to tell the difference between a hog bed and a deer bed unless there is some scat to identify.

In most cases in East Texas, you probably won't ever find their actual bed, just the round about area.

Think like a deer. If you wanted a place to nap without being bothered by predators or people, but you wanted to be able to tell their presence before they got to you, where would you go?

[WolfKat]

If you wouldn't want to have to chop your way into an area, that's probably a good indication of one. Sides of ridges where the sun hits in the colder months. Somewhere that the wind can carry scent to them easily. Looks for areas that have been obviously flattened out by something laying there. It can be hard to tell in sometimes because it's pretty tough to tell the difference between a hog bed and a deer bed unless there is some scat to identify.

In most cases in East Texas, you probably won't ever find their actual bed, just the round about area.

Think like a deer. If you wanted a place to nap without being bothered by predators or people, but you wanted to be able to tell their presence before they got to you, where would you go?

Great explanation