I agree with Gr8, but I like the south dot. Can you get permission from the folks beyond you there to walk in? Coming in the back door in the morning while they are out feeding.
Negative, I was shot down by every neighboring landowner for hunting permission or access.
Scott - where are your available parking spots? It helps to know the means of ingress/egress when you're picking stand sites.
All the way to the East by the farm house and barns. It is a long walk back!
I'm guessing that the field edges are thick and brushy, and are known bedding areas?
Yes, but mostly for does and yearling bucks... The higher caliber bucks hideout in the swamp areas.
The biggest rule of thumb I've seen/heard with corn, if there is corn, they are in it. At least with beans, you can see them. I usually can't wait til they cut the darn corn fields to put the animals back in the woods, funnels etc...some years they don't cut til after my archery season is over and I can tell you, I see more and bigger bucks when the corn is not there.
Exactly now I can get into the timber without running every single deer out of the area! This is why the corn will be a huge advantage. Not every deer is going to bed in the corn all the time and they must come out for water and to check the doe bedding areas as well. A strategically placed stand capitalizing on this and I am in buisness. I took my largest racked buck using this tactic. (setting up between a large corn field and a known doe bedding area. He chased her from the corn in the A.M. right past my setup. Game over
I like when the corn has not been cut at all. The later the corn is there the more security cover / food source they have to keep them around my area. I have the security, food andwater they have all they need to stick around.
I have had a lot of success seeing bucks coming from the fields to the timber in the evenings as well. I think the corn gives them a higher sense of security to get up and movefrom the corn fields to the timbered bedding and vice versa.