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Old 07-28-2005 | 08:55 PM
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Are we talking Illinois here? If so I wouldn't worry too much about spreading your scent around on bow opening weekend. There is a lot of hunting time for the deer to get over it not to mention how much scent is spread around by the harvest. The 80 I hunt is half corn that ajoins another 120 acre block of corn to the south. The stuff is pretty thick and offers everything a deer could possibly want. Cover, food, and a small ditch of water right in the middle that seperates my property from the neighbors. My biggest problem is with the deer not leaving the corn. They will spend weeks in it nonstop and not move unless somebody pushes them out of it. We've tried pushing them out in a drive and when we can get it to work had huge numbers jump out. The problem is that a drive in standing corn is darn near imposible if you only have a few people. If you get on your knees and look straight down a row you can see the deer a pretty good distance off but if you look across the rows you might be able to see 10 or 15 feet. Maybe half that if you're standing. A very still deer could escape detection just a few rows away and be gone in a slit second if you do spot them.
Give still hunting a try, you won't do any lasting harm and you could suprise yourself a nice deer. Here's a couple hints of advice; Use the rows to see a deer a distance off and then move 3 rows to the side to stalk within 30 yards of the deer and still hunt the rest. Even on an otherwise featureless cornfield the deer will still like to bed down on the high spots. Plan a route to get there that won't cross too many rows, crossing a row is very noisy. The second most commen animal in a cornfield is probably a raccoon, consider using that as a cover scent. On odd shaped cornfields there is always small sections where no corn grows. While I've never found deer to bed there they do use the open area to pass through it because it's easier to move through than cross the rows.
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