hunting next to combines
 

do any of you guys try to hunt next to somebody shellin corn? if you dont, you should. i am lucky enough to live on a farm and when im not drivin wagons to town i grab my bow and get in a tree on the edge of a woods next to the field and my dad trys to work them to me with the combine. im just starting this this year cause last year he ran a 6 and 8 point out of the field!!!

RE: hunting next to combines
 

I wish!:D

RE: hunting next to combines
 

That is a very good tactic to try. The fields that have just been worked within the last day or two, and the fields currently being worked , can be food gold mines and the deer know that.

It also works for logging operations. Here in south arkansas you can often see deer walking down the trails that the skidders push as they are hauling trees out to their loging sets. The deer follow behind them by 100-200 yards, eating fresh browse, and they also like having easy trails to walk down. If they dont feel threatened, a deer will use those trails like a highway, for better faster travel. and then go back into the woods when they get next to an area where they might feel threatened, like where the trail comes back out on an actual road.

If there is a good corner in your field where you can find where 2 or 3 entry trails converg into the grain field. Set up on that gold mine in the early evening and have a ball.

Good luck to you and God Bless.

RE: hunting next to combines
 

Yea, and when you get one you can run it through the machine and knock the hide off. :D

RE: hunting next to combines
 

Freshly cut corn fields are gold mines for deer hunting. On more than one ocassion, I've sat in a treestand and watched deer standing just inside the woods waiting for the combine to go back down a row or leave. They would immediately go out to pick up spilled corn. I happened to get to one of those fields last year as it was being picked. I shot 2 nice does from the same stand (easy recoveries) about 12 hours apart and could've killed more.