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OOOOHHH YYEEAAAAAHHH!!!

The nastier the weather the better. The Drury boys hunt soybeans when the snow is really piling up. And I personally have seen deer pile into standing bean fields in late season around here.

Just make sure you are downwind of the entry point. You may have to let a lot of does and small ones pass by before the big boys show up.

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I tell ya they hammered my Soybeans this summer, so mcu that they never really made it back from the chow down! In one of my area where I hunt here in Wisconsin there are track EVERYWHERE in the standing beans. We have a over a foot of snow on the ground right now so I think its easy food for them this time of year! I'll be on stand tomorrow on a trail leading to them tomorrow!

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They eat beans in the summer and early fall, during this time they eat mainly the plant...After the beans turn brown they start to pop open on their own, sitting over a large bean field you can actually hear this, that's when the deer eat the actual bean...Walk down the rows, you will see the beans laying there...Quail, turkeys, doves and other animals love them as well...

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When they flower.

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usually i hunt soybeans early in the morning, before they get up for the day. they fight less, and make great tofu.

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In the last year, due to personal observation, I have found that beans are as good or (I think) better in the late season as standing corn is. Deer feed on them heavily untill they start to dry up (in september here), then they are left alone untill December when the snow really flys. Then they HAMMER them, good luck!

Another plus to beans is you can see the deer in the field, unlike standing corn sometimes.

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If there are standing beans those deer will be on them. If not now, once January and February get here definitely. Check the nearby woods. If there are still acorns on the ground the deer will stick to them right now because they don't have to expose themselves, but once they are gone they will be on those beans hard. If you have a lot of bean fields around check the ones that are tucked away from roads, have some topography, or secluded corners. The deer will still be spooky from all the pressure and prefer to stick to food sources that don't overly expose them.

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i been wondering about beans as well...this was the first year anyone planted beans in the area....sure enough, i had 10 acres or so just outside of my honey hole...plus the corn and alfalfa. buddies saw them in there while spotting in the summer...but that was it for the most part...

they left them standing and i walked around the fields the other day and they dont look hit too hard at all...not like our corn fields half fallen down...

is it possible the deer dont find the beans as a food as of yet?? these were the first fields EVER planted in the area...noone has seen them eat them...just stand and bed in them...i dont know..someone told me they heard they wont touch them till they brown out...which came and went already lol...

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Mauser...That could be possible...Sooner or later the deer should eat the beans..
We own 3 farms and plant beans, in the early season the deer hammer the beans, even when we have cut corn planted on the same farm...They hit their most preferred food source first...My brother has a 5 acre field of beans that he left for the deer, he is still seeing deer in them...

Beans are also a good bedding area when they are still green, last year I watched 6 different deer on a morning hunt in the beans...They would get up and feed for 30 minutes or so, then lay back down for an hour or so then get back up and eat again...

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I share with you our experience from last year and this year in IL. We hunt public land and one small farm. Last year when we arrived the farm still had standing beans that were brown. We hunted the farm in the evenings. The deer started pouring into the fields about an hour or so before dark. I could hear them popping the beans as they ate them. It sounded like rice crispies in a bowl of milk when I was a kid!:D

When we arrived this year, the beans had all been cut on the farm except for a bit around the edges and in a couple of the corners. The deer were still coming out into the fields, but they came out at least a half hour later than last year.

Both years we were hunting the last few days of October and the first 5 or 6 days of November.

Bill

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Ant, where do you have the aerial posted? I can't find it.

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Got it open. Your PM box is full.

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after they harvest them and theyre lying allover the ground everyehere.