Get pumped!

[bowhunter1023]

Agreed. I'm talking 3 acres. LOL

 

[Bigslam51]

Ya I've never hunted around cornfields that big. The biggest around my spots are 50-100 acre fields.

 

[giles]

I would have been home hours ago with fields that small... I'm pumped about this because it means I'll be able to hunt early season and the deer will fall into patterns earlier. I hate dealing with hunters and farmers during the rut.

 

[finelyshedded]

I'm different I guess. I love hunting with standing corn around me. Deer "feel" safe bedding and milling around them so what better place to set up near. Plus, if it frustrates the other hunters around me and keeps them from hunting I'm hunting less pressured deer. The only draw back is if there is TOO many standing cornfields in the immediate area and the deer I'm after is over there and not where I'm hunting. If so, no biggie, just helps bucks live longer to where they get more age on them. Plus, I also like using standing corn to my advantage when walking to and from my stand.

Put my ass in a stand overlooking those tall golden brown stalks about 15-20 yards inside the timber and a slight favorable breeze with cool temps and I'm as close to Heaven as I can get while I'm still breathing!

 

[Boarhead]

I'm different I guess. I love hunting with standing corn around me. Deer "feel" safe bedding and milling around them so what better place to set up near. Plus, if it frustrates the other hunters around me and keeps them from hunting I'm hunting less pressured deer. The only draw back is if there is TOO many standing cornfields in the immediate area and the deer I'm after is over there and not where I'm hunting. If so, no biggie, just helps bucks live longer to where they get more age on them. Plus, I also like using standing corn to my advantage when walking to and from my stand.

Put my ass in a stand overlooking those tall golden brown stalks about 15-20 yards inside the timber and a slight favorable breeze with cool temps and I'm as close to Heaven as I can get while I'm still breathing!

X2.

 

[Bigslam51]

Idk its a double edge sword for me I guess. I love the fact that standing corn draws bucks and gives the deer security, but I hate when they stay in it all the time. I did hang a set about 40 yards inside the woods off of a cornfield this year and I have high hopes for that one.

 

[giles]

Like a lot of areas, it will make a huge difference there. The first year I hunted there, I did not see a deer until Oct 22. Millers shelled corn, I was covered up with deer soon after. When the corn is standing, you would swear there are absolutely NO deer there.

Sounds like Miller is on the back side today. I can't see him, but it sure sounds like a combine back on the other side of the creek.

 

[DJK Frank 16]

I want the last 20-30 acres for miles standing around my wood lot. Seems every deer in the area will start using it for cover. When there is a boat load of it though, it makes it tough finding where they are entering and exiting, because it seems to be inconsistent.

 

[giles]

I want the last 20-30 acres for miles standing around my wood lot. Seems every deer in the area will start using it for cover. When there is a boat load of it though, it makes it tough finding where they are entering and exiting, because it seems to be inconsistent.

Ever try and buy it off the farmer to do just that?

 

[brock ratcliff]

In our neck of the woods, 200 bushel/acre is not uncommon...i aint buying it!

 

[GoetsTalon]

The longer the corns up the better for me also!!! Love hunting the edge of the fields.

 

[Big_Holla]

As open as some of the wooded areas are on our property I would welcome the corn this year. Too bad we are 100% soybeans so I'm praying they spill a bunch when they cut or else I will be doing a lot of squirrel hunting and pouting.

 

[giles]

True, we do have some very solid yields in this area. But that isn't exactly the only option for buying it… I've heard of hunters buying seed for the farmers and asking them to leave some standing until the season ends.

 

[Jackalope]

True, we do have some very solid yields in this area. But that isn't exactly the only option for buying it… I've heard of hunters buying seed for the farmers and asking them to leave some standing until the season ends.

The farmers up here plant every square inch they can. They've even gone so far as tearing out miles of fence rows so they can plant an extra row or two. There was one farmer up here this year that planted right up to the edge of the road. Literally like a foot off the line and the telephone poles were about 6 rows in. Jokes on him though, the county came by and bushogged it to the poles. Lol.

 

[Big_Holla]

The farmers up here plant every square inch they can. They've even gone so far as tearing out miles of fence rows so they can plant an extra row or two. There was one farmer up here this year that planted right up to the edge of the road. Literally like a foot off the line and the telephone poles were about 6 rows in. Jokes on him though, the county came by and bushogged it to the poles. Lol.

That's hilarious! Sucks for him for sure!

 

[finelyshedded]

The farmers up here plant every square inch they can. They've even gone so far as tearing out miles of fence rows so they can plant an extra row or two. There was one farmer up here this year that planted right up to the edge of the road. Literally like a foot off the line and the telephone poles were about 6 rows in. Jokes on him though, the county came by and bushogged it to the poles. Lol.

LMAO.... I've noticed a trend in removing fence rows and tree lines down here as well! They either use the firewood or sell it I guess but the stumps and other knotted up junk gets burned in big piles that smolder for days in not a week.

 

[Bigslam51]

The farmer that owns one of the farms I hunt cut down a nice treeline out in the field a couple years ago, made the hunting even worse there. This is the same dude that somehow gets crop damage tags every year. He tells me the deer are all over his farm, I hunted there for 2 hours last year Lol.

 

[Big_Holla]

Now that Joe mentioned it the farmer that plants our place down there has gradually planted closer and closer to the fence rows and treelines the last two years too. Getting to where even a 4 wheeler riding around you occasionally crunch a plant or two, let alone drive my truck back there. Used to be able to drive a truck around every field without worry. Surprised he hasn't asked about our sanctuary field yet LOL which would actually be a good thing maybe.

 

[Bigcountry40]

The farmers up here plant every square inch they can. They've even gone so far as tearing out miles of fence rows so they can plant an extra row or two. There was one farmer up here this year that planted right up to the edge of the road. Literally like a foot off the line and the telephone poles were about 6 rows in. Jokes on him though, the county came by and bushogged it to the poles. Lol.

I know we have talked about this before, but farmers will literally spend thousands of dollars and significant amount of time tearing out trees for no profit. I guess they never learned from what happened in the western part of midwest in 1930's (dustbowl). Having tree lines protect fields and have a positive affect, I will never understand some farmers desire to burn and destroy tree lines, when they have so many other more productive things they could be accomplishing on their farm.

 

[Bigcountry40]

LMAO.... I've noticed a trend in removing fence rows and tree lines down here as well! They either use the firewood or sell it I guess but the stumps and other knotted up junk gets burned in big piles that smolder for days in not a week.

This is also the reason we have no wild pheasants or quail anymore. No where for them to find