Mature bucks are all individuals , no one size fits all. They are like grumpy old men and want to be left alone. The truly old studs will seek out more secluded spots to bed as they mature. Now secluded may be in a thicket near a subdivision or the most remote , rugged spot in a area where many would say the gentle areas are rugged. I believe their core area shrinks, they are old and established and have nothing to find and prove. There's a reason they bed in a certain spot. I've found many and think why here and after studying the situation a little have a ah ha moment.

As far as the mountains of Jackson County , some folks not familiar would say the whole county is rugged and remote. To the locals it's not. That being said , older bucks here will seek out the most remote and rugged spots to bed here just like in flat land or suburbs. I've hunted Jackson Co for nearly 50 years and always tried to hunt areas without much human pressure , deer hunting has never been a social event for me. So on these properties with low pressure and the fairly rugged terra , I've found the really old studs will still bed and travel in the absolute roughest , thickest areas. If I were hunting a new property and wanted to kill a mature buck I'd first go to the roughest, thickest , most remote area nobody else hunted . They don't get old walking around in wide open , pretty timber or out into food plots. Think grumpy old men.