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Standing corn.
How many of you are used to having the corn all harvested by the time you start hunting? But not this year because of all the rain this spring and late planting. I know I will be in that boat this fall.
Do you have a plan or are you going to change tactics at all? I have found the deer have everything they need in the corn except water, and pretty much live there. I plan on keying in on the water sources and planting something they like better than corn to lure them out.(I hope) I am also hopeing for a good acorn crop to draw them out of the corn. Any thoughts???:eek: |
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buckhunter, I hunt west Texas and wish I had your problem but corn wont grow in rock....:D
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I hunted standing corn with a rifle a bunch of times. I headed into the wind and across the rows in blaze orange. I killed one doe that way and passed up a bunch more. I could have killed most of them with a bow. My dad poked a bedded fawn in the hind quarters with his gun barrel in a corn field once.
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Buckhunter- When they plant corn where i hunt , i hunt the same because i know they'll come to where the white oaks and red oaks are which is where one of my best stand is located. I also have a stream running past my stand also.
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I also forget tosaythe corn normally doesn't get harvest untill the end of oct.
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RE: Standing corn.
Our corn here is up into December some years... Early November is the earliest it comes off around where I live.
I see more deer coming out ofthe cornin the evenings than I see go into it..... Food for thought. |
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Late Oct to Nov is when our cornusually comes out. But the deer do come out. Try watching the edges and fence or treelines running next to the corn.I usually start checking these for tracks. Hopefully the bucksare starting to get does on their minds and start moving out a little more.
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Around here the corn starts getting harvested the second week of Sept. and on usually we have the corn out of our fields the week before bow season opens Sept. 22. If you can find their routes going to and from this cut corn fields it is on.
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Normally the corn is out in my area by early Oct. This year I'll be lucky if it's all out by Thanksgiving, some of it is only a foot tall now. If a buck gets a doe cornered in there you might not see them for a day or so.
I hope they want a varied diet, and get thirsty. |
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Just about every year here in central Minnesota the corn doesn't come out till right around November or so. Sometimes 2 weeks later then that. Sometimes not until next spring, depends on if we get an early winter or not. It really does suck being the deer love to stay in the corn but the upside to it is the gun hunters don't get the good hunting either and the next year the buck herd his in much better shape then.
My sightings when the corn is still in is usually half of what it usually is. I don't change my way of hunting. I still set up on the travel routes in between the bedding areas and the corn. |
RE: Standing corn.
I have corn standing every year.
I hunt near as much as I can. I have even found scrapes in the corn. I try and find where they enter and exit an camp out. Also during the rut hunt a big open woods near corn. A buck will push a doe in there to breed. Gary |
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I lucked out they switched to beans this year.
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Find a tree tall enough on the edge of the cornfield if its standing corn and use a climber to get as high as you can. A nice rack is easy to see if you are glassing the field. If Its bowseason, get an idea of the wind direction and wher he is and put a stalk on his ass and get a 15 yrd double lunger!
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I hunt a lot of standing corn - one observation that I've made over the years is that when the corn is standing, the deer seem to feel a heightened sense of security, so they don't necessarily go as deep into their bedding areas as usual. Particularly when the foliage is still heavy.
There have been times where I've bumped bucks out that were bedded barely inside the edge of the woods, as I tried to slip in and get set up. Focus on the travel corridors between the corn and the beds. If you have lanes of corn that only intersect thewoods on one side, pay attention to those areas, because they tend to prefer to stay inside the cover of the standing stalks, so they like to travel accordingly. If you can get into a position to glass, and can get onto a buck while he's still on his regular feeding pattern - you could set yourself up for a very productive opener. |
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ive killed one buck over standing corn
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I would suggest to many who do have to trek in the early morning hours when its dark through the even darker corn to stay away from the following movies.
Signs. Jeepers Creepers 1 and Jeepers Creepers 2. Fire in the sky. (i know this movie has nothing to do with corn.. but i implore you not to watch it just before season opens anyway.)  Freakin' aliens love to loiter in corn fields.. making crop circles and generally scaring the cupcakes out of humans. |
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One of my stands over look a 10 acre corn field and we usually dont harvest it untill late october early Nov. Sometimes wever let it stand as late as mid-late nov.
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I am used to 90% of corn being out by Nov 1 and that aids in concentrating deer. This year there is no way that will happen. I do not know yet if that may be a good thing or a bad thing - last year a place with most of the corn standing was an absolute hotspot during the rut.
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I have never understood why people don't like hunting while corn is still standing. When I lived in Northern Indiana it was very common to hunt most of Oct and sometimes well into Nov with corn still standing. I killed a ton of deer, never had a problem, in fact my hunting was always better when I standing corn. Here in southern Illinois, I have not see a standing corn field in years during hunting season. It took me a while to adjust to hunting without standing corn, but I would more than welcome a big field of standing corn during bow season.
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One ofthe best ways to hunt standing corn is with 3-5 or even more people. Start at the end of the corn field and spread out about 25 yrds between each hunter. The guy on the end starts in and gets about 5 rows in (5 hunters) and the next one starts in and on down the line. Walk into the corn sidways with your bow on four hip but ready to raise and shoot. Upon entering each row stick your head through first and peer both ways. If you jump a deer you might be able to get a shot unless he runs down the row and then a trailing hunter will get the shot as he is futher down and behind unless the deer moves ahead of you which is unlikely. No one will have more than a 25 yrd shot.
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ORIGINAL: Rickmur One ofthe best ways to hunt standing corn is with 3-5 or even more people. Start at the end of the corn field and spread out about 25 yrds between each hunter. The guy on the end starts in and gets about 5 rows in (5 hunters) and the next one starts in and on down the line. Walk into the corn sidways with your bow on four hip but ready to raise and shoot. Upon entering each row stick your head through first and peer both ways. If you jump a deer you might be able to get a shot unless he runs down the row and then a trailing hunter will get the shot as he is futher down and behind unless the deer moves ahead of you which is unlikely. No one will have more than a 25 yrd shot. |
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ORIGINAL: kickin_buck I have never understood why people don't like hunting while corn is still standing. |
RE: Standing corn.
I've hunted standing corn a lot.There are a lot of deer that spend the summer in standing corn most of the day time. The deer like a change of pace. I liked to slip in and be a tree or two back in the woods in the afternoons. The deer will still feed in the corn but will slip out in the late afternoon for a drink or to change the diet a little. If you walk the outsides of the corn field you'll see the places they like to enter and leave the corn. Deer also like to walk along the outside of the corn just outside the woods while it's standing. You find a tucked away little corner or depression and you'll see where deer have been feeding. One of my best spots ever was a ditch with some water and trees between 2 cornfields. The ditch and trees were only 10-20 yards wide and 200 yards long. The deer had two places they liked to cross that ditch. Shot several deer in that ditch. I slipped in real quiet one day at 2 and quietly climbed up with my climber. Small tree so I could only get up about 14 feet. About a half hour later I noticed this corn stalk shaking. I got out my binos and was shocked to see this nice 8 pointer laying down in an area where the shade from the woods had stunted the corn about 60 yards away. He reached up pulled off an ear of corn and lay there eating it. A few minutes later he did another. He got up, moved 10 yards closer and lay back down. A few minutes later, now at maybe 45 yards he pulled off another ear. Suddenly a buck I hadn't seen stood up 60 yards away, and then I saw 2 more walking through the corn. I had 5 bucks bedded within 75 yards of my tree when I climbed up in it. None of them had spooked. They all got up and worked their way to my ditch for a drink of water. I shot the 8 at 12 yards. I put a friend from PA in another similar stand on the same field one day looking into the corn about 100 yards from where I shot the 8. He'd been there 20 minutes when a nice doe walked out of the corn. He shot her at 15 yards. She ran back into the corn. He knew it was a good hit and early so decided to stay put. 30 minutes later a buck walked out of the corn. He shot him at 20 yards. He ran under the stand a dropped dead in site of the stand. When I finally got to him after dark he had his deer loaded and was snoozing. I love standing corn. You can hear them coming and they will come if you find the right spots. They like the corn because it's cool in there laying in the dirt,especially if the corn is still green. If you find an area in the cornfield where the spectrisides didn't kill off all the grass and it's grown up they love to bed in that. I don't know if it's all the insectisides or what, but there's never a tick or bug on corn field deer. You walk from a misquito infested woods into a corn field and the misquitos disappear. The deer have found that out too. They love it but will leave it for water and a different browse or to feed on acorn around the edges. If you can find an oak or 3 on the edge of a field the deer love it. The acorns drop along the outside of the corn and they don't have to pick through the leaves of the woods to find them as they're usually laying right out in open sight.When the corn was standing I used to get out of my stand at the end of the AM hunt and weave my way through the corn towardsLen and his boy who would be sitting on an exit route. A bunch of deer were usually in there.
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Where I hunt is pretty void of Agricultural crop fields. Mostly CRP, hay fields, and pastures.
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RE: Standing corn.
ORIGINAL: davidmil I've hunted standing corn a lot.There are a lot of deer that spend the summer in standing corn most of the day time. The deer like a change of pace. I liked to slip in and be a tree or two back in the woods in the afternoons. The deer will still feed in the corn but will slip out in the late afternoon for a drink or to change the diet a little. If you walk the outsides of the corn field you'll see the places they like to enter and leave the corn. Deer also like to walk along the outside of the corn just outside the woods while it's standing. You find a tucked away little corner or depression and you'll see where deer have been feeding. One of my best spots ever was a ditch with some water and trees between 2 cornfields. The ditch and trees were only 10-20 yards wide and 200 yards long. The deer had two places they liked to cross that ditch. Shot several deer in that ditch. I slipped in real quiet one day at 2 and quietly climbed up with my climber. Small tree so I could only get up about 14 feet. About a half hour later I noticed this corn stalk shaking. I got out my binos and was shocked to see this nice 8 pointer laying down in an area where the shade from the woods had stunted the corn about 60 yards away. He reached up pulled off an ear of corn and lay there eating it. A few minutes later he did another. He got up, moved 10 yards closer and lay back down. A few minutes later, now at maybe 45 yards he pulled off another ear. Suddenly a buck I hadn't seen stood up 60 yards away, and then I saw 2 more walking through the corn. I had 5 bucks bedded within 75 yards of my tree when I climbed up in it. None of them had spooked. They all got up and worked their way to my ditch for a drink of water. I shot the 8 at 12 yards. I put a friend from PA in another similar stand on the same field one day looking into the corn about 100 yards from where I shot the 8. He'd been there 20 minutes when a nice doe walked out of the corn. He shot her at 15 yards. She ran back into the corn. He knew it was a good hit and early so decided to stay put. 30 minutes later a buck walked out of the corn. He shot him at 20 yards. He ran under the stand a dropped dead in site of the stand. When I finally got to him after dark he had his deer loaded and was snoozing. I love standing corn. You can hear them coming and they will come if you find the right spots. They like the corn because it's cool in there laying in the dirt,especially if the corn is still green. If you find an area in the cornfield where the spectrisides didn't kill off all the grass and it's grown up they love to bed in that. I don't know if it's all the insectisides or what, but there's never a tick or bug on corn field deer. You walk from a misquito infested woods into a corn field and the misquitos disappear. The deer have found that out too. They love it but will leave it for water and a different browse or to feed on acorn around the edges. If you can find an oak or 3 on the edge of a field the deer love it. The acorns drop along the outside of the corn and they don't have to pick through the leaves of the woods to find them as they're usually laying right out in open sight.When the corn was standing I used to get out of my stand at the end of the AM hunt and weave my way through the corn towardsLen and his boy who would be sitting on an exit route. A bunch of deer were usually in there. |
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We always try to know the date of which the corn is being picked, THAT is a fun time to hunt.
Have tried the stalking in corn, without any success. I believe your water and acorn idea is a good one, good luck! |
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ORIGINAL: ICALL2MUCH We always try to know the date of which the corn is being picked, THAT is a fun time to hunt. Have tried the stalking in corn, without any success. I believe your water and acorn idea is a good one, good luck! |
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