i was wondering if i sould find some new land or what now because i was hunting a beanfeild that met a small strip of marsh (no more than 20 yards buy 200) but now the beans are gone. my question is, is it still worth hunting the area or should i hunt different property?

As long as it isn' t tilled I would think it' d still be good. There' s a lot of easy beans that get left over. I passed on a little buck two weeks ago that was eating in a combined bean field. My buddy shot a doe the same night in the same bean field.


I see you' re from rochester. I' ve been to that ' clinic' you have down there.

Rack, did you say your buddy killed one the other night barly bow season and to think someone has the one eyed bull dawg pulled out just kid' n

If the food is gone...the deer will move to a new food source. But if there is still beans like Rackluster said, then you should be alright.

If the ground has not been tilled, and your area is not some kind of unusual, there will be more deer in the field more often then when the beans are standing; especially when the field has just been harvested or is being harvested. Very early morning and starting just before sundown...much earlier if the field is secluded.

They will sometimes stay and meander around in the harvested field for lengthy periods as they pick the loose beans off the ground.

Find the trails they commonly use to enter/exit the field.

I have done alot of my hunting over the years on farmland... and the one thing I have to say is I perfer to hunt after a cornfield or a bean field has been picked... it seems that the number of animals comeing into the field is more and is more frequent..now you might not see a monster in the field everyday but is not uncommon to see average to decent sized (shooters) bucks in the field anytime of the day if it is a place that is not recieved much pressure... if it recieves pressure then early morning and late evening will be the best times... like c903 said find the trails leading to and from the field and try to set up to cover the most trails possible and be patient I have hunted fields and seen 20 deer in them one day and none the next!!!

All the deer I hunt is in farmland country....I don' t see one bit of a decline in deer going to fields(corn or beans) after they have been combined. I stay on the same stands that I hunted when the crops were in the fields. Even when they are tilled...chances are all the fields around the area are also so there really isn' t any " easy" food to get. The deer will still come to the fields to eat like normal. Especially if the fields are chisel plowed versus being plowed. Chisel plowing still leaves a bunch of crop visible and easy to get to for all the pheasants and deer. Hope this helps.

thanks guys i will hunt the stand in the marsh leading to the feild on saterday(first ime i will get the chance the week)

oh yea and RackLuster, just an interesting fact in betweeen The Mayo clinic and the IBM building 75% of the town is imployed.