Hey guys, Anyone ever hunt standing corn? What's the best ways to hunt it? The terrain I'm hunting is somewhat of a plateau with steep drop offs on 3 sides and the property line on the flat side. One of the three steep sides pushes into another field of standing corn. I can try to get a Arial photo if that helps. Any help would me much appreciated Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk
If you're really quite and belly crawl in. Keeping some cover between you and it you should b able to get a shot. Although most everybody else just uses a combine or chopper.
use cams on the edges shooting parallel down the outside edge. see if you can pinpoint if they're entering/exiting in the same spot or at least narrow it down. standing corn sucks. it provides them with cover, food, they will even bed in it. but they can't just live on corn and there is one thing they absolutely need that they can't get in a cornfield. Water. So try to find the highest traffic in and out and cut them off. 30 yds inside the timber would be ideal as it would present you with a shot if they walk along the edge.
I have cams out but typically a week before the season starts I stop getting pictures Sent from my SPH-L720 using Tapatalk
Sounds a lot like one of the fields I hunt. Very little woods to check for paths (unless I trespass, not going to happen), luckily the field has been planted with beans the past two years. Standing corn is kind of frustrating, you can't see what is coming or going, as most have stated, find the travel corridor. This is time-consuming and can be frustrating as well. Walk the edge of the field first, try and find traffic, poop, etc, and start doing the same as you would tracking a blood trail, make small circles until you find patterns. mark on the map, repeat, look at the map later, and identify those patterns from above. Option B, walk the edge of the field, pick a spot you think has the most traffic, hunt it. After corn is cut, you can watch the fields and see where they are coming to and from. Now you can narrow your patterns for the future. Stalking the fields is fun, after reading some of the comments on this forum I gave it a try, never came up on anything, but the feel of stalking "something" was fun. Be warned, if you are lazy, it is not an easy task. And do it when there is a decent breeze to cover your sound/movement.
