What Deer Really Do in Their Bedding Areas | Bowhunting Whitetails w/ Bill Winke
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2022
- In the third episode of my new series, I discuss the most interesting things I learned last season - a season spent sleeping in the woods each evening. It was fascinating to see what deer really do in bedding areas, when they arrive in the mornings and how easy it is to sneak past them once they have bedded.
Very very helpful ...thank you awesome video
Thanks Brandon. I appreciate it. Have a great day.
Nice to have you back
Thanks Steve. I appreciate it. Hope you have a great day.
Outstanding video that really opened my eyes to allot of misconceptions I had. No substitute for time in the woods.
Thanks Walter. Much appreciated. Have a great day.
Nice tips about Ridge stand placement. Always great content
Thanks David. Much appreciated.
Great ridge line tips!
Thanks Larry. I appreciate it. Have a great day.
@@bill-winke No problem Bill. I have just started looking at your stuff. I will be hitting the PA Allegheny mountains this season. If you have any more knowledge on playing the thermals it would be great to hear. You mentioned swirling winds down low, getting above the ridge line when up high. Do you use ozonics or the like or are you just playing the wind every time? Keep up the good work. 👍👍
Great advice and very so much right.. great vid
Thanks. Much appreciate.
Good info
Thanks for the support Ron.
Bill I can’t tell you how happy me and my crew are that your back to making videos. We grew up watching you, a lot of our channel emulates “Chasing November” and honestly hunting media just wasn’t the same without Bill. Very much looking forward to this fall.
Completely understood you wanting to get back to your roots and away from the camera for awhile. But so glad to see you back! Really missed your content!
Thanks Chris. I appreciate the support.
I got my 6 pointer from setting up and he got out of his bed at 10:30am a cold day in november.
Sat there for 4 hours after sunrise and there he was, got up and shook off. What a memory
Awesome Kevin. Congrats on a great deer and a great memory.
Grey light entry for the win!
Absolutely. That's the go-to method for me too.
Spike camp hang and hunt 👍 solid way to tackle northeast Iowa. Turkey hunted around yellow river forest like that in my younger days.
I love that area of Yellow River Forest. I used to camp and fish that all the time as a boy.
I'm sure you've heard it million times but thank you allowing us to benefit from your years of experience. You are truly one of the best out there.
I appreciate the comment D65 and your support. I hope you have a great day.
Legend
I would like to see a video series on that wind strategy.
That is a good suggestion. I will add it to the list. Thanks for the support.
Another great episode. Come in Ohio Logan county area. We got some big ones. I’m sure you’re aware. Good luck this season
Thanks Harold. Yes, Ohio has definitely been coming on strong. Have a great day.
Like your stuff real informative, new sub
Thanks Don. I appreciate the support. Good luck this fall.
Great to have you back!
I have been hunting for 14 years and have never killed a buck, I’m hoping I can learn from these videos and finally get on a buck
I sure hope you get one. The most important thing is to hunt in places where there are deer even if that means being willing to shoot does for a while to gain access. Good luck.
Great video. Great info. I love watching deer and how they act. I don’t have to kill them I truly enjoy watching. Nothing like harvesting but that’s really not the only thing. Luke 9:62
Gouch, there is so much you can only learn by watching them. No matter how much you study, nothing compares to actually being there and seeing how to they react to things. Good luck.
I’m not sure you realize how truly helpful your videos are. Thank you for all your hard work!
I appreciate the comment the support. Have a great day.
Loving the new series! Keep it up.
I still hunt blacktails on the Oregon coast and use those exact tactics pretty much. Have gotten some nice ones! Bill is one of the best ever 👍❤️
Thanks Scott. Much appreciated. Have a great day.
Bill, welcome back brother! Glad to see you back teaching and sharing with us. Looking forward to your simple approach to just bow hunting whitetail and teaching us what you learn or know to be truth. You made lots of us smile….
Thanks Robert. I will do my best to pass along the things I have learned and I plan to keep learning along the way right along with you.
@@bill-winke great way to look at it sir. Just found your channel, but remember you from years ago. Youre gifted when it comes to explaining things. Much appreciated
I like the simple format of this channel. Look forward to following along this fall
Great video and strategy!!
Love this concept. Whitetail behavior is the best topic. Please keep bringing the education. Thank you
Another interesting episode bill keep telling me stories I'll keep listening
Awesome content. Thank you!
Very informative and interesting video, thanks!
I save my best spots for storms, either rain or snow depending on time of year. I have my best success getting in clean at these times. Thanks, really looking forward to this season of your videos.
Mr. Winke, I wanted you to know that I got into bow hunting specifically after watching Midwest Whitetail. I have been an avid hunter since I was 6 ( I am now 41 ). My dad only took us gun hunting, which I always loved spending time with him in the woods. But bow hunting is by far much more enjoyable for me now that dad is gone. Thank you for teaching those of us who just didn't understand how much fun bow hunting is.
Tom, thanks for the note and I am very happy that I could inspire you to try bowhunting. It a great pursuit and a great way to feel at peace in the woods with the God who created it! Have a great day.
Thanks Bill. You showed some interesting footage there.
Some fantastic get in close tips to remember. Thanks for sharing. I may have to try and do that myself. We get some windy days here.
So glad you are back to posting weekly content Bill. Everything feels normal again.
Thanks Triax. Much appreciate. Hoping you have a great day.
Awesome ! I caught myself nodding my head to a lot of your points before you were finished! Thanks for sharing your experience, looking forward to more episodes!!!!
Great insights Bill, thanks for sharing. Always something to learn .
Thanks for the support Tom. Much appreciated.
Great to see you back, Bill! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experiences! I really appreciate it.
Great content Bill, looking forward to more videos.
I love your insight Mr Winke. So glad you started another channel, even if there isnt as many videos as midwest whitetails, im excited to watch as you continue to educate me more and more! You are an absolute Legend of bowhunting whitetails
Thanks Levi. I really appreciate the support and the fact that you took the time to write me a comment. Very kind of you.
Such great information your sharing with us Bill!!! Thanks a lot for all the tips and tricks you always share with us. Sure makes me rethink things I’ve been doing my whole life. Lol
Thanks Catch.... I appreciate the comment and the support. Have a great day.
Great information Bill, can't wait for the next episode!
Thanks Justin. I appreciate it.
Really glad you are back into the videos. Been missing that "Always Dream Big." Welcome back my friend.
Thanks Josh. I appreciate it. Have a great day.
Gotta be somewhere in the Midwest.
Very informative Bill.
Thanks for the support Eric. I appreciate it.
Thanks bill that's really good Intel as you were there all night.
I have learned now hunting hills is not like my farm near Bloomfield or more flat ag land in Illinois.
My farms have hills like the one you have and we have found you can't beat them to the top.
But I did see does and bucks in those areas acting like I was very little threat even when they saw me. I saw or I should saw jumped does that were laying guarding a scrape that would run 10 yards and almost refused to leave the scrape
Very odd but it was a big remote area of private in Ohio.
Another great episode and summary of lessons learned Bill!
Thanks Alex. I appreciate it. Have a great day.
Great content Bill, thanks for sharing. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos!!!
Thanks Mike. I appreciate the note and the support.
Love that you’re making videos again. I hope you are planning on sticking around! I’ve been watching you since the beginning back on Midwest.
I plan to be here on this channel for the foreseeable future. Thanks for the support.
Awesome man!
Can’t tell you just how proud to have you back in action Bill! Missed you so much from Alabama!!
Thanks Daniel. I appreciate it. Have a great day.
Great intel, ive slowly over the years evolved into a gray light entry...just notice for what ever the reason i saw more deer...and impact on patterns seemed less....the part about not beating them to bed i think fits my experience...now i basically still hunt my way in...i try to get as close to my stand as i can without any risk in the dark and hold until i have just enough light to see...then hunt my way in...quickly but i stop bout every 4 or 5 steps to scan for any movement, reactions etc. Its been good to me...i base this on how many times i see deer stand up from a bed they were in when i climbed in tree...i always kinda assumed they are groggy/half asleep...thanks for the first hand intel...sleeping with them produced some really golden intel that has cemented a couple of things for my style. Thanks for sharing brother
Terry, I have had my best luck by far using the gray light approach. It would have to be really windy for me to go back to full dark entry because it just seems that the deer pick up on that a lot easier.
Thanks so much for answering my question on why you chose your specific tree-stand locations. Love your content and the way you present it. Too many people are overlooking/skipping over the basics that are useful for all hunters not just beginners. Appreciate the finer points that go into how a buck was harvested. Details details details.
My pleasure. Have a great day.
great video and advice
Thanks for the support Jack. I appreciate it.
Great info. Thanks for sharing!
I appreciate the support.
So Glad your making videos again Bill! Looking forward to fall even more now! We have incorporated much of the information from your channel straight into our properties.
Chasing November! 👊🏻
Honest question
Do you believe deer would act the same way on public ground? Does the pressure of public ground change the bedding area habits and sense of security?
I am sure that every place is a bit different, but I do think that they act roughly the same way, maybe not as relaxed at midday as they are in places that rarely see people, but generally, they will seek out the more remote places to bed on public land anyway, to avoid the human interaction as much as possible. I am guessing they would be more alert on public land than private land, in general.
Going in at gray light has been a game changer for us the last few years for all the reasons you pointed out. Since doing that we jump way less deer going in and see way more in that 9-12 time frame when they get up to mill about the bedding areas or bucks cruising during the rut. We have never killed a deer before 9am in public hill country SE MN. Going in a little later also makes it easier to sit longer if weather conditions are less then ideal when you can actually kill a deer because its light instead of waiting in the dark for an hour plus when thats not an option if Mr. Big were to walk by.Great insight!
Rarely over the years have I ever seen many bucks in the bedding areas at first light. It seems that they let the does drift in first while they are still roaming around the fringes of the feeding areas or just covering ground and they show up in the bedding areas for a last look well after the sun has come up. Good luck.
Nice Bill, always love your content!
Thanks Drew. Much appreciated.
Hey Bill its JP again from Cali. Its very pressured were I'm at so I've been trying to get further and further away from signs of other hunters, while looking for active sign.
Scouting some Public Land close to some down fencing to private land, the Deer seem to be using the broken fence for a highway. (Tree smashed it little down 2ft area, this fence will probably not be repaired any time soon due to location, never the less it is private land)
What's your thoughts on setting up on somethin like this.
Thanks again for your time.
Enjoying the new series with you and Jordan aswell.
Thanks for the support JP. I think that is ethical. You didn't knock it down, nor did another hunter. I would not hesitate but I would be certain not to shoot across the fence. That is a no-no. Good luck.
@@bill-winke Appreciate your time again Sir. Best of luck on Shooters coming in for you both on the new series. Stayin Tune 👍
Thanks for the info sir
My pleasure. Thanks for the support.
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Awesome Bill! Super excited if I’m understanding correctly the content will be “bowhunting whitetails” in a more pure simple manner. Not exactly the words I’m looking for. I’m not a writer, but not saturated into other content. A lot of shows have great info, but the valuable info is mixed into so much useless info. Again I’m personally so excited to have your content back, just don’t get too big again. We’ll take what we can get. Glad to see the Hoyt shirt too!
I’m a public land Bowhunter in NE Iowa and I have come up with the same ridge/wind/trail theory but I’ve found that there is a third trail on every ridge right on the top that deer use when the wind is in their nose which makes it impossible to hunt but it is important to know that this “impossible trail” may be the best looking and produce great trail cam pics but is not worth hunting due to deer only using it when able to smell you.
Appreciate the content here...I hunt a lot of natural elevations on the ground and have seen these very things too. Looking forward to these discussions!
Thanks for the support Shadowdawg. Have a great day.
If there is storms coming when do you Typically get out in the woods before or after the storm
Ideally right as the storm is finishing up and passing through. Generally the clearing and high pressure that follows a storm front will trigger activity. The next day is usually good too.
@@bill-winke makes since thank you for the advice your videos are very very informative keep up the good work
Your observation of the deer being below the top of the ridge supports what I've always found hunting mountains and extremely high hills. The elk, mule deer, and whitetails tend to travel and bed 3/4 of the way up the side of a mountain or hill. It's a rule of thumb I've seen countless times
That is what I see in the ridge and bluff country too. Even the lower terrain of southern Iowa, where we had our farm for so long, had that same travel pattern in place.
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useful vid. thanks
Thanks for the support Owl. I appreciate it. Good luck.
Thermals have a major impact on where I can hunt in hilly or mountain terrain. Do you factor thermals into your stand selection here…especially evening thermals which typically flow down hill from wherever you are.
I find it hard to sneak with the leaves crunching. Maybe I don’t go slow enough
You may be going too fast or the woods are just too still. Not trying to get into those spots on still days is the problem. If you get some wind they won't hear you nearly as well as the leaves in the trees will be rattling. Good luck.
@@bill-winke sounds good thanks
Deer are easy to sneak by if you know where they are looking. I’ve snuck out of stands numerous times midday, but you can’t sneak back in because they get up and move around multiple times through the day shifting ever so slightly and you won’t know where they are facing.
That is so true. They seem to drop their guard once bedded. Thanks for the support Andy.
First view.. took me 32 seconds. lol Glad to see you more active on youtube Bill.
Great insight! What sort of timber management made that great bedding area?
Awesome video Bill.
On your stand location diagram you had your stand below the deer trail. Does that work when the sun comes up on a morning heat and your thermals pull up the hill?
Thermals are only a factor in the bluff country if it is still (light and variable winds). Otherwise, the day winds (forecast wind for that day) kick in and overpower the thermals about the time the sun is coming up. I do see thermal effects especially in the evenings right about the last half hour of legal shooting time occasionally. Those are always pulling scent down into the valleys as if were water running down the slopes.
There are MANY instances where you can beat deer into the bedding area. No matter where your stand is there is a chance of bumping deer. Even mid day in wide open ag country I have been surprised by deer and sometimes the shooter buck I'm after in the strangest most inopportune place.
"Beast style" hunting, made popular by Dan Infalt. Hunting buck beds.
Thanks for the support Joe. Have a great day.
Great discussion.
Don’t pull back too much on the land management side
I’ve tried to convince my best friend that going in at first light was better than 30 minutes before light. He thinks I’m crazy but I feel like I spook less deer.
I tried it both ways one year and spooked far less deer when entering after gray light. Sometimes I even waited until full light so I could glass ahead. That worked well too.
I have a question , do you try to set your stands in one direction ever time ( for example your stands facing north ) so the shadows of the sun hide you in the trees
Aaron, I have never set my stands based on the sun or shadows, though that is not a bad idea. I set them based on what the tree gives me in terms of stand locations vs branches and the shot angles I am trying to create. I often set my stands on the back side of the tree if the tree is shaped right so I can hide behind the tree when deer are close. You have to stand most of the time if you do this. I also am careful to pivot the stand around to to the right on the tree if I think I may be taking shots from a sitting position so I can comfortably shoot to all areas on my left (right handed archer).
@@bill-winke thanks for the reply
Hey Bill just letting you know your channel has said iv won something (2 times so far ) and to reply by text message figure someone messing around thought you might like to know
I have been trying to get rid of those posts. Thanks for the heads up.
Bill.
I spoke with you in the early days of MWW. Almost went to work for you. I know you were in Dunlap many years ago for HCA. So you know the South.
I wish SOMEONE onRUclips would PLEASE clear up how DIFFERENT hunting and deer in general can be, and usually is, form North to South.
Bedding AREAS? yeah right. MANY Southern hunters have no idea what you are even talking about.
EVERYTHING is a bedding area around here!!!
I hear you. I have hunted Alabama, Georgia, Texas for deer. It is definitely tougher than the Midwest, for sure.
I think a your account was hacked bill. I got a message from your youtube channel telling me to text a cell number for a special gift. It happened last week on Dan Infalts hunting beast channel also. Alot of scams going around, just wanted to let you know.
Dang it. There are so many scams it is amazing anything legitimate even has room.
So happy to see and hear you Bill.
I love your content and hearing makes me get pumped for the fall!
God bless