Where do I hunt?
 

You hunt the areas on your land that the deer are using, look for sign and the fresher the better.

You hunt where the deer are. They will tell you the areas they use with trails. Try to find a spot where more than one trail trail intersect.

also make sure there isn't any safety issue's with shooting and safe back drops
8 acres isn';t a lot of land in the big picture, a rifle bullet can travel wall past it!
its impossible for us to tell you where to hunt on your land , as we are not there to see it?

best suggestions for a PLACE to hunt on your property will; be where it is SAFE to do so, and where deer are in shooting/legal hunting hours, and that you can get into and out of without being seen!

a LOT of times having a tree stand helps in many ways, , 1 gets you out of line of sight (SOME WHAT over the yrs deer have learned to look up) 2 it will help at times make shooting a LITTLE safer as it has you aiming downwards some what!
3 gives you an advantage at times on being able to see farther, giving you more time to get ready when deer are coming your way!
but like any hunting tool, you need to be safe in using them!

See if you can pinch them coming and or going from that corn field

deer usually dont bed down where they feed, so you might look to see where they are traveling. to and from the feeding and bedding area.you will want to set up between those two areas.

find where they feed & find the bedding area & & learn the wind direction &you're do good. don't let them wind you . try using a blind or treestand

Like the guys said either feeding or on the way from food to bed (mornings) or from bed to food (evenings). I've never had much luck trying to sneak up on a sleeping Deer, they usually have a back way out and sleep with one eye open. But you can walk likely places, brush or a hedgerow, and spot the grass or weeds matted down. Just don't get too close and spook them off with your smell, I usually figure thirty yards is close enough. When I scout a bedding area I usually wait a few days before I show up in the area again. You don't want to spook them off their routine.
Always look behind what you are shooting at. I get tunnel vision and I imagine other people do also. I have to force myself to look behind what I'm shooting at, the bullet can go right on through a Deer. I got shocked out of my complacency early one evening when I scoped a nice Buck, he took another step and I was looking right at some guys TV screen through some brush and trees a couple of hundred yards down the hill. I'm really glad I didn't pull the trigger.

You might also consider asking the cornfield owner for permission to hunt. Worst he can do is say no and you're back where you started. If he says no, as long as he's not letting anybody else hunt the cornfield, you still have a good setup cause deer will come back through your property to bed.

and while asking him for permission, its also a GOOD time to find out what they will or will NOT allow as to recovering anything that runs off onto there side of the fence
as legally in many states its ILLEGAL to trespass to recover a deer that was shot on your side but ran onto another's property
so keep this in mind when hunting smaller sections of land or near borders
if you shoot a deer and it runs onto another land owners land, and you DON"T have legal permission to go recover it, you could be in legal trouble if you do! and NO one wants to loose a deer this way period either

some times getting a warden involved can help but NOT always , so knowing before you need to know what will happen is always better route to go!
I personally have agreements with most bordering land owners where I hunt, that IF a deer crosses property line, I am to Notify them and then they have the option of saying they want to BE there to see or, just let me go get it(99.9% of the time they say just GO get it, as I have rather good relations with most bordering land owners)
but have had a few places where they out right refused to allow a recovery if one ever was needed!
so a heads up on this info too in case you didn;t think of it or know it!

Since you own the land, put up a couple of game cameras. Then you'll know for sure.

So any updates from the OP? You should be hunting already. :biggrin:

If they cut the grass there will be green grass growing and the deer will still be eating it. For as far as the rut here the main rut takes place around the 14th. However they will be rutting later in the month. That is exactly why you have early fawns and late fawns. It is not uncommon to see a buck traveling with a doe the week after Thanksgiving here during our black powder season.. But for now I would be watching and waiting near the acorns. After a light rain the deer will bed in the hardwoods early in the day.. Good Luck to you..

Hunt where the deer are. You can probably see everything on 8 acres if you stand on a chair.