Is this a good hunting spot

Eagles22793 · 12-14-2009, 02:53 AM

I found a bedding area off of a soy bean field and have saw deer come out of it. I am going to put down deer corn in the field and some in there bedding area. I am also going to spray some deer urine on a tree very close to the bedding area the day before I go hunting. I am going to set u a tree stand close to the bedding area so I can see it clearly and see the field. Is this a good plan to hunt bucks or even a good size doe? Is there anything else I should do to get more deer in the bedding area?

Fieldmouse · 12-14-2009, 03:28 AM

Well, just throwing down corn one day doesn't make them come running. You need to be doing that begining awhile ago. Skip the urine and every other day throw about a coffee can (maybe a little more) on a trail under one of your better stands or climbing trees. You'll develope enough of a pattern to shoot at least one or two by the end of the season.

FYI, if you do it right, you use the corn early enough in the season to fatten and sweeten up the deer meat before it ends up on your table. This is what happens with cattle before they go to the slaughter house. They aren't feed corn their whole life. They are just feed it before they get slaughtered.

Maryland_Whitetail · 12-14-2009, 06:01 AM

Give em some time and they will find the corn. They always do. Post a trail cam and see whats hittin.

Maryland_Whitetail · 12-14-2009, 06:03 AM

Oh, and be careful of hunting around a bedding area. Not so smart with a climber, making noise and such. Better to hang a lock on and be very quite getting in your stand.

Father Forkhorn · 12-14-2009, 06:29 AM

Ditto the advice of not getting too close to the bedding area. You know where the deer where the deer are moving too and from and that's the magic ingredient in deer hunting. Human activity around the bedding area only risks messing up that pattern.

Can you set up downwind of a trail between the field and the bedding area without spooking deer? That's where I'd set up.

iSnipe · 12-14-2009, 07:02 AM

If you're serious about the buck hunting, I wouldn't do a thing, but rely on the natural patterns of the deer. Your intrusions there will not be tolerated by a mature buck. You may blow him out once, but doubt he'll want to stick around if you intrude on him more than that.

It's a bedding area for a few reasons. It offers security, maybe is out of the wind and is convenient in reference to the food. If you go intruding in that area, they will no longer feel safe and find a new spot.

To simplify it, find a spot between the bedding and feeding area and ambush them in the later part of the day when they leave their beds to feed. For a morning, hunt, do similar. Ambush them on their way back to their beds. Keep in mind, mature bucks have a tendency to leave the food source before the other deer to bed... and are one of the last ones to enter open feed sources in the evening. That's why it's also a good strategy to set up a stand somewhere before they reach the food source.

Since you already witnessed deer coming from an area, leave well enough alone and set up based on that. No need to try and make it better with the corn and urine. Bank your hours and you'll connect eventually.

iSnipe

teedub31 · 12-14-2009, 07:49 AM

So for the caps in advance.

STAY OUT OF THE BEDDING AREA!!!!!

They bed there because the feel safe. Screw with their comfort zone and you won't be seeing them in that bean field.

Horacio · 12-14-2009, 09:47 AM

I think everyone has covered it. You really don't want to get too close. You know where they are and know where they are going (to the beans) Best would be to give yourself a shot somewhere off of that. You don't want to disrupt their patterns.

Putting out some corn might help but if they're going to the beans, it might not be necassary. I'm not familiar with soy beans and how much deer love them so I could be wrong there.

Beezer · 12-14-2009, 11:06 AM

If you have deer sign, it won't take more than a day or so for them to find corn. Something most don't realize though, corn is not a magic potion or guarantee, and it isn't as easy to hunt over as some make it out to be. You'd be better off to keep it a ways from the bedding area and put a stand where they make a trail going to and from the corn.

Meetchfest · 12-14-2009, 11:37 AM

I just recently found a small clear cut that's housing a nice buck only 60 Yds at the most from the bean field up on this little ridge I mainly hunt out of climbers but next year I think I need to hang a fixed Stand to get in there a little quieter. Defiantly a challenge when the beds right next to the food