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Old 11-16-2004 | 09:43 AM
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Default RE: advice for hunting corn that is still up?

I have hunted standing corn for the first time this year and a couple of things were different than last years beans.

- I have seen all different sexes of deer moving at all times of the day to and from the corn. I have seen deer going upwind downwind crosswind and basically every which way.
I have noticed one thing though. Deer are so more spread out than normal. They normally have about 100 - 200 total acres of woods, food and bedding. Now they have about 1600 because the corn is standing providing cover. The deer are seeing each other a tenth as much as before because they are spread out. They are heavily using scrapes to communicate who is around. Last Friday I saw 6 different bucks and 2 does, within 15 minutes of dark, all hit the same scrape. They just pissed in the dirt pawed pissed some more and moved on.

I would say walk the edges of the corn. Find a nice active scrape and set up on it. The deer approached from all angles except downwind. That I do not get however. The scrape was on the edge of a big corn field and really active. Hunt the same set up.
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