The team shares best practices for identifying and hunting whitetail bedding areas.

The team shares best practices for identifying and hunting whitetail bedding areas.
Find where mature bucks spend the majority of daylight hours in this episode of Hunt ’em Big with Steve Bartylla.
In this episode of Hunt ’em Big, you’ll see where family groups bed during daylight and how this is different from buck bedding.
Buck bedding areas determine where deer are coming from, and locating them gives hunters a huge advantage.
Can you identify and hunt deer bedding areas? Dan Schmidt is in beautiful Northeast Wyoming hunting pronghorns and whitetail.
Understanding how mature bucks bed is a key ingredient to successful hunting plans, and Steve discusses how topography, cover and food all come into play.
Late winter and early spring scouting can be a huge boost to your overall hunting strategy. Knowing when and where to start scouting is the critical first step to a successful deer hunting season.
Are big bucks really nocturnal? Maybe the question should be, “Do big bucks simply lie in their beds all day long for 12 hours or so at a stretch?” The answer, of course, is no.
With smart improvements to deer bedding areas and food plots, hunting land will attract more does, though some hunters think that will push bucks away. As the old saying goes, it’s all in the planning.
Open-country deer bedding areas are tougher to find than you might think — especially for mule deer. Mark Kayser offers some great tips for spotting bedded deer in the wide-open country.