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08-03-2009 | 04:49 AM

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valor10

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Windwalkerer7, drhntr178, and TJF, you all make good, valid points why you might just walk through the corn to get to a stand.

Your tactics have been successful, that’s all that’s important. I recon it’s more about knowing your particular hunting area, as stated by TJF, than anything. For me, I’ve had good luck getting to a stand by walking the edge of the field. Does my scent along the entire edge bother them? Maybe, but I doubt it. No more than the scent I leave walking a couple hundred yards into a big wood acorn grove does. It’s hard getting into any stand in the AM without running across deer. For me, it’s more about getting to your stand as quietly and invisible as you can. I walk past deer all the time in the AM. Whether it’s on field edges, or in the woods. Walking at a slow, steady pace doesn’t seem to spook them, they just move away for me. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to sit in my stand for a couple hours after dark, because deer were directly underneath me.

I guess it also depends on whether it’s a permanent stand or a climber. If I’m carrying a climber, along with my bow, I really like moving along the grassy side dressings. No need for a flashlight either. Much quieter for me than going through the standing corn. Another thing is, I don’t hunt the field edge. I normally hunt 20 yards deep back into the woods off a trail they are using to enter/exit the field. But, to be honest, I’ve never walked through the corn. Maybe I’d have been just as successful. If it was more than a hundred yards, I think I’d end up lost in the corn though, especially on a cloudy morning

! TJF, that was one nice deer your boy brought down

. Congrats!

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