My personal favorite way to hunt standing corn is to find a spot where the deer are either exiting or entering the field, or walking it's edge down a fencerow or something of the sort. Then I back up about 10 rows into the corn, trim a few shooting lanes to where the deer are going to be walking, and sit right on the ground. The farmers where I hunt lose a lot more corn from coon and deer damage than I ruin by cutting a few stalks down, and because I'm trying to get rid of some of their deer they certainly don't mind at all.

Another thing you can do is look for an area within the cornfield that didn't grow and has a lot of grass or weeds in it. This is a favorite place for deer to bed within the safety of the cornfield itself, but not on the muddy ground. I do the same thing there that I do on the field edges, get a few rows back into the corn and cut some shooting lanes into the grass, then sit on the ground and wait.

I have hunted standing corn for the first time this year and a couple of things were different than last years beans.

- I have seen all different sexes of deer moving at all times of the day to and from the corn. I have seen deer going upwind downwind crosswind and basically every which way.
I have noticed one thing though. Deer are so more spread out than normal. They normally have about 100 - 200 total acres of woods, food and bedding. Now they have about 1600 because the corn is standing providing cover. The deer are seeing each other a tenth as much as before because they are spread out. They are heavily using scrapes to communicate who is around. Last Friday I saw 6 different bucks and 2 does, within 15 minutes of dark, all hit the same scrape. They just pissed in the dirt pawed pissed some more and moved on.

I would say walk the edges of the corn. Find a nice active scrape and set up on it. The deer approached from all angles except downwind. That I do not get however. The scrape was on the edge of a big corn field and really active. Hunt the same set up.

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