Hunting fields?
10-30-2007, 06:37 AM
#1
Fork Horn
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: central Wisconsin
Posts: 183
Hunting fields?
This is the first year that I have ever hunted farmland/foodplots. Would I be foolish to hunt the field edges in the morning? The only times I have to hunt is mornings, and nearly all the buck sign is right along the edges of the fields and food plot. I have been hunting for a long time but I have never hunted fields or foodplots before so I am still trying to figure out the best way to go about it. Any advice would be appreciated...
10-30-2007, 06:44 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeast Alabama
Posts: 1,625
RE: Hunting fields?
Hunt where the sign is. I am not a big fan of hunting fields with a bow but that is my opinion. Most of the time the good bucks won't enter a field until dark or close to it that's how they got to be good bucks. So what I would do is hunt close to the fields in the woods near the sign and try to catch them traveling to and from.
10-30-2007, 06:50 AM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 292
RE: Hunting fields?
I have had pretty good luck on fields in the A.M. during the chase phase. You have to be careful about getting to your stand if there are deer using the field in the morning when you come in. You will bump them, but during the rut you never know what is coming. It can't hurt to try.
10-30-2007, 07:05 AM
#5
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central Minnesota
Posts: 9,445
RE: Hunting fields?
Like dtk said during the rut anything is possible weather your hunting field edges or in the woods. You may want to go out to your stand through the woods instead of going through thefield in the morningso you don't spook everything.
