Curt,

You are right the deer probably are in the corn right now. They will continue to stay there until it is cut, even after the acorns drop. We had this problem in Illinois last year. The acorns were so thick it was incredible but the deer weren't leaving the corn to come eat them until well after dark. The deer do have a summer range and a fall range but they are similar places but different patterns within the overlapping ranges. In our part of the country the range will not very much but the places they use within the range will very greatly. It sounds like the areas that you described will be good bedding areas so the deer will migrate there after the corn is cut. I imagine there are several living there now but there will be more after the corn is cut. If you get stuck in a rut give me a shout and I'll be happy to run up there and help you figure them out

We hunted Pike Co. last year and I was amazed at how little the deer keyed on the massive acorn crop. Most of the area that we were huting (about 20 hunters at the lodge 7 of which were with my group) was without acorns or had very few and the property that I was hunting was LOADED so we thought we had hit the mother load but the deer didn't seem to key on them that much and they definetley weren't coming out of the corn until after dark. But even then there wasn't a tremendous amount of sign in the acorns. Now the corn was still in on Nov. 10th and the moon phase wasn't just right but we still didn't see the deer key on the acorns like we thought they would have. Hunting around the corn was definetly the way to go. When the corn is cut it's a whole new ball game though.

Good luck. If you have any more questions feel free to PM me and I will answer any thing that I can.