Patterning Deer and How Long Does a Buck Lay in His Bed? With Dan Infalt

[@tfrost33elkhunter]

A little off topic here… but interesting none the less. I have a set of twins that are 3 years old now (buck and doe twins). They have not left each others side in three years. My daughter named them after my grandparents because they never left each other’s side either. He is a beautiful 10 point roughly 140”-150”.

[@sammoore5933]

Keep Dan talking.... dropping science. Thanks Josh.

[@dennisst.pierre210]

Hunting the old sign! I like that idea.

[@richn2852]

That’s a true outlook, every deer has its own behavior/ personality on what it tolerates and what’s his breeding zones. Some don’t have to go far and some are constantly moving to it’s next doe or food source, every deer is a different animal.

[@ronmacdougall9612]

I know right now they are laying by water, very hot and dry here lately,saw three smaller bucks yesterday while I was fishing.They drink a lot of water.

[@mochoman5532]

I have watched a mule deer bed down at 9am and not stand up until 3:30 pm. I put an arrow through him at 35 yards. It was a long stalk and a longer wait..

[@thedangler1371]

Deer are like people. I love this observation. Patterning them is super hard. My dad killed a big buck over crab apple bait pile on public in Michigan. I used red crab apples in the city with a camera and had the biggest buck eating them 50 yards from my bedroom pillow in daylight. I still couldn’t pattern him with a cell cam. Got tons of pics though.

[@ML-ks2lj]

Where abouts in Michigan? Just curious because I thought baiting was illegal in Michigan. But I still see tons of people baiting down here in the thumb area

[@j420-y6m]

Thanks for sharing this video

[@Chrisbreezy1979]

I’ve been deer hunting for close to 30 yrs mostly here in my hometown of Harlan Ky which is an old coal mining mountain town. I also hunt Russell and Adair county Ky which is flat woods and farms! There’s a huge difference between my hometown and the farm towns that I hunt! It’s way easier to get on a mature buck on the flat woods and farms than it is in these thick mountains of Harlan. It’s really hard to pattern a mature buck in these mountains where there’s zero food plots and they live off of natural food compared to the farm land that has both woods and food plots. Any advice for hunting these mountains with zero agriculture?

[@Hammerback0]

Harlan is so hilly and rough country, it would be tough! U may pick a low pressure area and put out a throw and grow type food source? Im in rockcastle, hunt here, Lincoln and pulski

[@kylemurray7086]

Hunt bowls and edge in the upper third elevation, I’ve had good luck seeing deer in WV in the same terrain, quite a few bucks too

[@Chrisbreezy1979]

@@kylemurray7086 really the only edge I’ve found around here is power lines cutting through portions of mountains. But I’ve found a nice spot on a point of mountains with a power line edge on both sides and a worn out trail splits the top power line edge. Thanks for the comment.

[@kylemurray7086]

@@Chrisbreezy1979 it doesn’t have to be a hard edge, it can be subtle as well.. like the edge of thick understory timber, to open hardwoods, or even a sudden change of predominant tree species, like beech and maple (mature) to popple and oak (young).. think about that too when you envision your spots

[@ML-ks2lj]

Leeward sides of cliffs and hills and hunt the weather. Gotta really do a ton of scouting in the of seasons to mark trails they use and then hunt them when conditions are right. I love technology no adays fornthst reason because you can simply just walk with phone in hand and it will draw lines where your walking and you can get a huge layout of trails and where they intersect and lead to. Where before it was hugely mental and paper maps lol.

[@dougclarke4540]

Dan spoke about putting cameras on the trails that are leaving bedding. How do you tell these trails are leaving bedding? Basically, is it by the tracks? Or, is there more to it than that?

[@K4kashiSensei]

You had to have scouted the area before and know where these bucks bed.

[@dougclarke4540]

Let me word my question better. You’re scouting or have scouted the bedding. You come to the trails, do you determine the exit trails simply by the tracks going away from the bedding area? Or is there something else that determines that they’re exit trails? Could it be determined by the wind at that particular time or day?

[@K4kashiSensei]

@@dougclarke4540 I make it out as any trail that is coming out from the bedding and going toward the food source. If there are multiple trails coming out of bedding, then I would look for the trail that is the most used. I guess if you really want to be particular on which trail is the exit trail, then you can look at which direction the track are going toward the food source like you mentioned. Me personally, I just want to know if the buck is using that bed and then set up as close as I can to it and ambush him when he goes to the food source in the evening.

[@TenPointTyrone]

Yes a lot of it is wind and terrain based

[@bryanroberts]

Hey josh.Josh.. whenever I click the link for the whole video it tells me that its unavailable... It has for at least the last several.

[@beforetheecho]

Shoot, ok let me try to fix it quick. Sorry about that thanks for the heads up

[@beforetheecho]

Try it now!

[@bryanroberts]

@@beforetheecho yes sir!! Working now!!

[@jasonnester9514]

Unless it’s rut bucks bed more than they move

[@pooonmyshoe5817]

I’m not crapping on Dan I respect him tremendously, but I’d love to see him come down to Fla and kill a 100” deer constantly. We have no topo, no ag, water everywhere, and it’s green year round. It’s a whole different game. Dan if you read this please consider the challenge. Public land no help from locals. Be interesting for sure!

[@BS.-.-]

Who would want to hunt in mosquitos?

[@BrothaAustin]

@@BS.-.-hunters with no other choice

[@bigbuckhunterism]

You're asking the guy who prefers to hunt swamps over big woods, to a swamp challenge, to kill a buck that in most every other state is a non-shooter buck?

[@StealthTRD]

​@@BS.-.- wym? There's places without mosquitoes? Damn Louisiana sounds worse the more i learn.

[@manuelmorales6773]

From a south Florida swamp buck hunter to another, couldn’t be more true a 100* deer here is like saying a 180 class anywhere else. Great comment and so true. Dans the man