Identifying Buck Bedding Areas in Hill Country! E-Scouting Tips

[@thomasstine2299]

This the kind of content I really get into, thorough, no fill and experience based. That being said, this comment also applies to Steve Sherk's study that was long format but also factual experience based. Keep it coming! Thank you!

[@chanceyfuller3695]

Awesome video, die hard big woods mountain hunter here. Keep up the great work, not many people enjoy the struggle of the big woods like we do

[@leemartin9579]

I hunt big woods hill country in the Ozarks, and I want to thank you for helping us better understand bedding!

[@ec9697]

Deer go where the pressure puts them..everyone hunting the upper 1/3 pushes them down..etc

[@DeerHuntingCajuns]

Great intel brother👍🏻 Thanks for the help. Gonna try the hills hopefully this year and get out the flat swamps and marsh.

[@thomasestep7377]

Here in WV mountains big bucks love bedding above highways

[@Lucas-jy7cv]

Thanks. This was fantastic

[@brandonnoke8833]

Exactly what I've been waiting for this time of info broken down. thank you!

[@adampaniczko8198]

Thank you for the showing what you have learned yourself. I'm still learning, but I live in zone 2 in Massachusetts and I was just out walking and looking for signs after the season was over . Been in this area for 5 years now and it great deer country out here just need to learn how to really learn how topo works kind of a slow learner but I do learn 😆. I have a spot where I get a buck every year on and after, November 2 through the 10th then nothing but I get a good one just got luck on that spot I think. This is the buck I got on 11/8/23 really nice big 8 dressed out at 203lbs he weighed 275lbs before dressed. Sorry about the punctuation I hope you get the picture of the buck

[@chrismacomber9727]

10 day till opening day here in NC..I have a spot picked out in one of those bowls ..but here it's normally hot as hell the first few weeks and almost no wind so I'm counting on the thermals to pull my sent up in the morning..

[@justinsigmon1878]

I hunt in NC too. I'm so ready for season to open up. I hunt 1 hour North of Charlotte. No shooters on camera yet but a few 2.5 year old 8 points. Hope a nice buck will show up. I am gonna hunt some of the gamelands again this year. I hunted pond mountain last year them mountain and elevation about killed me lol.

[@chrismacomber9727]

@@justinsigmon1878 nice I'm 30 min south of Greensboro

[@justinsigmon1878]

@@chrismacomber9727 I use to hunt a few farms in Granville County killed some really nice bucks there and use to hunt north Hampton too. Huge bucks there but I was younger and didn't know what i was doing lol.

[@chadsyl23]

Good luck fellas

[@chrismacomber9727]

@@chadsyl23 thanks brother

[@TheWVgoodguy22]

Nice overview of what to look for in mature buck bedding, especially that bowl 🥣 deal. From what I have heard and even saw, they will bed in thick cover overlooking roads even main ones like highways 🛣. I can’t wait to get out in both West Virginia and PA this year and I plan on getting my Ohio license in the spring for turkey 🦃 season then into deer 🦌 season. Best value doing it that way.

[@MrTrapper1111]

Awesome video, for sure do more of these types of videos, really helps pick apart a section of woods

[@camthecameraman5096]

Great breakdown! Chads the man for hill country info

[@johnnycardenas3508]

Have you ever used the shaded relief feature on CalTopo? It’s awesome for hill country

[@micahdunleavy9227]

I like the content but lots of these scenarios I don’t know how you hunt a deer in a bowl where he has so many wind and thermal advantages. I know when I scout these bedding areas in southern MO almost ARK I don’t find specific beds often because the wind changes so often I think they are moving to different sides and points often.. I find the sign but with the swirling winds and thermals it’s really hard to figure out a set where you ever even see the deer. When I walk these bedding areas scouting I never even get close enough to know I bumped a buck even though I know there are there due to rub lines and scrapes.. I get stumped on how to set up on these deer.. Rut funnels work but actually hunting the bed before they start cruising just seems impossible. I think that’s why eberhearts hardcore scent regime and scentlok sounds so good because it’s just discouraging to never have a wind that works..

[@zachschultz3534]

Id be interested how you setup in the bowl. My experience in hill country is anytime you sit low its a matter of time before you get busted because the winds are always swirling down there

[@micahdunleavy9227]

Exactly, this seems like the info I need and never get..

[@ec9697]

Bucks don’t bed much during rut.and go way away from home,I just focus on travel routes

[@TexasTradBowHunter]

Definitely read the title and assumed it was going to be the Texas hill country lol.

[@huntingandfishingwithlogan2367]

Man I need u come to southern West Virginia and teach me something and u talking about hill country we got it and big bucks it’s a bow only county!!!!😃

[@chadsyl23]

The four are on the list!!!

[@Roadkill750]

What is TSI

[@Hunting4Hookers]

Man, I’m glad I subbed your channel! Love your content!

[@jake-hofer]

Hill country public land big woods bucks. If you can do it there, you can do it anywhere

[@Captn_Cor]

What is a good source to determine predominate wind direction?

[@nate_stanton]

Wunderground will provide historical weather data for your chosen area. That should help you with typical wind direction for your hunting location.

[@jooboo115]

Good luck from Ohio and that’s all ways a good spot for me 🤫

[@Hopeknives13]

So question you talk about the bowls and having your scent drop all morning in that situation you’d hunt the very bottom of the bowl? So scent is more stable or ? Because sun up your scents rising but only where it’s shining. The particular spot I have is a older clear cut with poples trees. Beds are from bottom to the top on south side of ridge.

[@chadsyl23]

You are correct, at some point your scent will rise but knowing where the dropping thermals and wind are taking your scent to the point it rises is key. IMO they only way to know is get in there and wind map it. In the example I mentioned the bowl faced the west and I was hunting the northern slope. The bottoms and slopes were very steep so my thermals would suck out over that bottom and then rise up the eastern face slope of the ridge across the bottom. Hope all that makes sense If bedding is bottom to top, I would look for a key terrain feature like a drainage or bench close to bedding that optimizes your odds.

[@Hopeknives13]

Thank you

[@thebarefarmer6924]

What are you using to determine prevailing winds?

[@micahdunleavy9227]

You can google it, problem is here there isn’t a hugely prevailing wind direction. Maybe 3-4 percent different in the fall between north and south then even east and west are only slightly below that. So it seems like the deer are constantly moving bedding due to wind and well worn beds just aren’t even a thing I’ve found in months and countless hours of scouting. They will be on the points but a different one everyday and the winds are rarely even going a forecasted direction due to topography or whatever reason. Hill country is the most frustrating country to hunt… They have every advantage..

[@robertjr9844]

What does TSI stand for?

[@ExodusOutdoorGear]

Timber stand improvements

[@ronaldols8975]

What is TSI?

[@chadsyl23]

Timber stand improvements…..clear cuts, select cuts, burns, etc. Look for anything that creates massive regeneration

[@ronaldols8975]

@@chadsyl23 Thanks. Duh!

[@nelly3666]

I think I was the cause of the blurred out names lol

[@jooboo115]

I hunt there need to be more discreet lol always have fun there from just south of Columbus

[@nelly3666]

@@jooboo115 some people just get to worked up about public land nowadays

[@declareworr]

Wtf is tsi

[@arthurmarshall8326]

Total waste of time. Gee I wonder what tsi means ?

[@phofschulteify]

God, I hate when people use these mics. All I hear is swallowing.😂