Doc
Twelve Pointer
Thanks for the insight. I don't imagine deer are freezing during the hunting season from temperatures alone, but I do imagine they would want shelter from the wind regardless. From what I can dig up, prevailing wind in WNC is NW? Meaning deer might want to bed on S/SE slopes? I find that most south slopes in my area are open hardwood, with little cover. I'm just trying to narrow down my scouting a bit.
Yes. Prevailing wind during fall here is mostly some type of Northerly wind... Textbook would put them bedding up high on a southerly slope, but as we all know, nothing is 100% in deer hunting... Sometime hard to find consistent bedding in mountains due to literally unlimited amounts of bedding spots, and not much competition for the best bedding spots... In my experience, southern slopes tend to have more mtn laurel, while northern slopes tend to be choked in rhodo... i'd rather walk through laurel than a rhodo jungle... also, northern slopes are dang cold!