Come on man! You gotta have thicker skin than that! "It's the internet!"

Anyone else on his ignore list?

I probably will be after tonight, on another site.... Jeff, I'm sorry but come on man. The superiority thing has really gotten out of hand lately, everyone knows you can kill deer, you have nothing to prove to anyone. I used to look up to you when I first joined the forums, but now I have to bite my tounge A LOT just like WW, after you try your best to belittle people, constantly... Especially when they don't agree with your ways. I think you are a hell of a hunter, but I honestly can't believe how you talk to people sometimes.

Just exactly what I had stated, here if a deer gets shot buy you or anyone else the deer move to a different location and would not be back for a good 2 weeks.. Southern Maine is different and most likely simular to what you may be used to hunting. There you can shoot a deer and go right back to the same spot and be able to shoot one if it were legal here. Up here though with a low deer population and lots of woods deer will move out of the area completely. It is not populated with people and lots and lots of woods as well as cedar swamps that the deer like to hind in. That is why most that has ever came up here to hunt will state it is a tough place to hunt deer in..

Personally, while paying attention to wind direction, I would set up on edge of corn just before shooting light. Set long enough to give the spot a chance, then hunt your way to the stand. Tends to be much quieter than moving in the dark w/flashlight, and you stand a good chance of busting something.

Windwalkerer7, drhntr178, and TJF, you all make good, valid points why you might just walk through the corn to get to a stand. Your tactics have been successful, that’s all that’s important. I recon it’s more about knowing your particular hunting area, as stated by TJF, than anything. For me, I’ve had good luck getting to a stand by walking the edge of the field. Does my scent along the entire edge bother them? Maybe, but I doubt it. No more than the scent I leave walking a couple hundred yards into a big wood acorn grove does. It’s hard getting into any stand in the AM without running across deer. For me, it’s more about getting to your stand as quietly and invisible as you can. I walk past deer all the time in the AM. Whether it’s on field edges, or in the woods. Walking at a slow, steady pace doesn’t seem to spook them, they just move away for me. I don’t know how many times I’ve had to sit in my stand for a couple hours after dark, because deer were directly underneath me.

I guess it also depends on whether it’s a permanent stand or a climber. If I’m carrying a climber, along with my bow, I really like moving along the grassy side dressings. No need for a flashlight either. Much quieter for me than going through the standing corn. Another thing is, I don’t hunt the field edge. I normally hunt 20 yards deep back into the woods off a trail they are using to enter/exit the field. But, to be honest, I’ve never walked through the corn. Maybe I’d have been just as successful. If it was more than a hundred yards, I think I’d end up lost in the corn though, especially on a cloudy morning ! TJF, that was one nice deer your boy brought down . Congrats!

I've got to agree with you valor10.

The situation will dictate how to enter a stand. I've also been sucessful entering a stand by walking the edge.

I agree with the moving slowly when walking the edge.

If I have a climber on my back, you can bet I'm not going through the middle of the cornfield.

Every situation is different.

My beef was someone trying to discourage someone else that only had mornings to hunt. I'd prefer evenings for a situation like this but if all I had were mornings, I'd certainly give that a try.

As I stated in my original post. The stands are already set. Its a given to walk through it, my question was.....how many would walk through it both cautious to the wind, as well as stay away fropm the edges. I have walked this route on more than once to get to the stands and set them up....not one deer seen or spooked.

As for Jeff, dont know what to say other than if you have tried it and you were consistently busted....yes I would find an alternate route. So far for me. The articles I speak of are on the internet as well, and first chance I get, I will link them. The author schose this method of getting to his stand via standing corn was his only way of crossing rather than stink up 400 acres of his walking around the woods edge.

I appreciate the input guys, and as I said...Im going through it, low key, cautiously, aware of wind, shadows, etc. And Jeff, you will be the first one I send my harvest picture to.

As already stated by others, If the wind direction allows It, It can be done.

Jeff, I never said deer wont bed in corn.....not in the center of 600 acres of it, but definately around the edges of it.

As for the links...here are two...and I can can come up with dozens
But I have better things to do than satisfy your desire to always know whats best

http://forum.deeranddeerhunting.com/tm.aspx?m=6478

http://www.ohiosportsman.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=23786
This is just a snippet of one posting on their forum.
I could get several more, even hardpaper hunting mags....

Jeff (Hoyt):

Did you even read those two linked articles?

The first one is a tactic to hunt THE corn. Not a tactic to go through it to hunt the woods....and definitley not a tactic to go through it and hunt the woods in the AM.

The second link backs EVERYTHING I SAID in this thread up. It's people saying the same things I told you. They all HATE the corn (because deer will and are bedding in it) and can't wait for it to get cut.

http://forum.deeranddeerhunting.com/tm.aspx?m=6478

http://www.ohiosportsman.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=23786

Seriously. You need to read these. You can argue with them, then.