I see that you are from IL. Yeah, I bet you love hunting those corn fields don't you? Why? is it b/c you know the deer will be coming to them?
StrutNtom
I don't hunt corn fields....NEVER have, I hunt mainly forest. My gun stand is the only one that overlooks a field (family property)and it's nothing but scrub brush and natural grass that we bush hog every year to keep it down and stop it from over growning the fields.
So, a 5ac plot or a 1ac stand of oaks isn't a specific spot? come on.... you are going WAYYYY on the edge here....there is no difference b/t any of them.
Not as specific as a 10ft circle loaded with corn, no. Read this carefully......there is NO WAY you can cover five acres from your tree stand or ground blind, no way. Can you say the same for a feeder? THAT'S the difference!!
LoL...you are a funny guy. You try to "prove" a difference b/t a watering hole and a corn feeder? how? Can you not watch a watering hole? come on fella. you can do better than that.
I don't know what types of "watering holes" you're talking about but the ones I hunted overwere way bigger than 40 yards across. If a deer came to drink on the opposite side I was SOL. I mostly hunted by creeks and deer would cross and stop and drink in all different spots, again NOT the same as a 8-10ft circle of corn 20yds away from your stand.
Forget that post and just answer this one for me and then I am calling it quits.
Alright, think about it. The methodology behind hunting a food plot, an ag field, an oak ridge, wateringer hole, and so on is to what?Its to kill deer. You set up on these places b/c according to you, you "know" the deer might come.
Alright...take the feeder or corn "pile", which you don't pile corn...but anyways... its the same idea.
Its like saying that driving a car to work is different than driving a truck to work. Yes it is different, but whats the principle of both? TO GET YOU TO WORK!!!!!
Ok StrutNtom now were getting somewhere, I agree with your analogy. You are correct all of the methods you listed above are done so you (or me) can get in close enough to get a shot on a deer. I never wrote anything to the contrary, I simply feel that one of the methods you listed above has something that the other methods don't.......with one method you know the
exact distanceand position that the deer will be in (within a few feet) I wonder if you could guess which one it is?
You can't sit here and tell me that you don't hunt the edges of fields living in Illinois.
Solocamcan, if you are referring to an agricultural field.....Yes I can. As mentioned above I've only hunted over a natural grass and scrub brush field. That's not to say that I'd never hunt over a corn field, etc... because I would. Would it make it easier for me to see deer? Probably but there would be no way for me to know exactly where I would see them or at what distance.
That (to me) it the part that I'm hung up on and where I draw the line.
Guys, thanks for the conversation, I've learned a lot from your posts. I wish everyone much luck this year and I will be very happy for anyone who partakes in this great past time whether an animal is taken or not and by any means they are taken as long as it legal to do so.