Originally Posted by
Patrick Eubanks
Hunt only in the afternoon. Stay out of the woods and only hunt the field when the wind is blowing from the woods into the field. Sounds to me like they be bedding in the woods. Spread the corn thin on the edge of the field. Make sure your travel path is along the edge of the field.
I had the same thing happen to me a couple of years ago on a small patch. I was sitting up a stand bow hunting one ofternoon and heard a deer get up right behind me. I figured out that the reason I wasnt seeing anything is that they were bedding close to where I was parking my truck and watching me walk in. The first two nights of entering the property from a different direction produced two nice bucks. If you are seeing sign then there are deer. Just outsmart them.
Good luck
yep! 100%...I have this same problem so I now have to park about 1/2 mile up the road and walk in...I had a doe coming in and saw my truck and she was snorting and stomping and going on and I know she was too far for her to smell or even see me...but she had a good line of sight on my truck! Needless to say she took off snorting through the woods! lol once I moved my truck away they did come a lot closer and I missed my shot on a big doe...only because I didn't have the branches cleared infront of me and I couldn't get a good angle to shoot her with my bow...but that is all my fault...