advice for hunting corn that is still up?
 

here in minnesota the corn is still up in much of the southern part of the state. ive never hunted with it still up the question i have is do i change the way i hunt it? Its only my dad and i that hunt the land so we cant really do any drives through the corn to get em moving... any advice would be much appreciated

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I watched a show where they were hunting in tall stands of corn and they sat in 10' tripods. The elevated position allowed them to see the stalks move as the deer traveled through. The corn stalks provided the cover. I recall that they setup near an area where the stalks had been laid down which made a clearing to shoot into. I guess if you get the ok from the farmer to stomp down a few openings that would work too. Maybe look for a low area where the corn had too much standing water and is thinner.

I can't come up with the name of the show but it was those wildassed father (scruffy beard) and son (how says "dude" and "man" alot). Someone chime in here...they were grilling with the platform of a tree stand...Cheapo log cabin at the edge of a pond...

I wonder if corn fed deer tastes better than non-corn fed? Good luck to you!

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Hunting in standing corn can actually be much easier than it would seem. you can slowly drive (or walk) along the rows and see where the deer are bedded down. get on the downwind side of the deer and just slowly walk perpendicular to the rows. THis is a pretty slow process. just peek down each row as you come to it and see where they are. After you locate them, back up and walk down a row to get close enough for a shot. slip your way through the stalks and stick ya one. It really does work better than it sounds, especially if it is windy cuz the corn makes so much noise. good luck.

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Good luck!! There is no easy way to hunt around standing corn. Find the water because the food source is everywhere. Hunt funnels from the corn to the timber or water.

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I would hunt the funnels that connect to the fields. If you can't find a funnel, try to find a heavily used trail and put a stand up there.

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Wait for a nice wet distinct wind day and still hunt it. Poke your nose down each row as you go. Take it SLOW! They are in there. Killed lots of deer still hunting standing corn.

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when you say funnels are you talking bout revenes, holes in the fense and those type of things? as of now im set up right off the fense line, the farmer has a hole in the fense where he travels back and forth. theres corn fields on both sides of me...but should i switch to the dense forest, where the revene leads to the corn?

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I think the guys Greavous was referring to are the Fitzgeralds.Here in upstate NY our corn is still standing also,gun season opens Mon Nov 22 and as soon as the shooting and pressure start that'a where most of the deer will end up,I just set up a stand on a small finger in the midle of a large corn field,I usually hunt this spot from the ground but had to elevate so I could see hopefully I can catch them coming in or out,better yet maybe they cut it this week;)

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RE: advice for hunting corn that is still up?
 

oh yea just get in there on a windy day ,down wind of course .peek each row . it's slow going but if you take it slow you might be suprised what you drag out . taken several deer this way.

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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.

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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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