Ever set up just inside the last row of a cornfield In a ground blind for archery?
Thinking this September taking the machete and clearing a small patch to set the ground blind in. And maybe just top the stalks for the shooting window
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Corn fields
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Re: Corn fields
Toad Smith has a pretty good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iTtqgnOeQ&t=130s
I had a spot this year where I should have tried it from the ground but didn't. Ended up passing on a doe while I was in a tree along the corn field. It sure can be great action when they are hitting the corn hard !!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iTtqgnOeQ&t=130s
I had a spot this year where I should have tried it from the ground but didn't. Ended up passing on a doe while I was in a tree along the corn field. It sure can be great action when they are hitting the corn hard !!
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Re: Corn fields
strutnrut716 wrote:Toad Smith has a pretty good video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1iTtqgnOeQ&t=130s
I had a spot this year where I should have tried it from the ground but didn't. Ended up passing on a doe while I was in a tree along the corn field. It sure can be great action when they are hitting the corn hard !!
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Re: Corn fields
Back when I had permission on private I used to hunt up in the corn. Some of the most exciting hunts I have ever been on were from sittin atop a 5 gallon bucket in a flood damaged cornfield. The water had killed the corn in the low places, leaving points and coves through out. The best evening I had up in there, I saw 49 deer. Some nearly within arms reach. I ended up sailing an arrow harmlessly over the back of a B&C class buck, before the farmer got the corn picked. At which point my fun in the corn, ended. If I still had that spot, I'd do it again, ever chance I got.
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Absolutely! Did this tonight without a blind. Use the corn as your cover and find a shooting lane. Had 5 bucks within 40 yds before another hunter after coyotes spooked them before entering my shooting lane. Awesome for late season! Everyone is attracted to corn early on and it tends to get boogered up for awhile till things calm down. Late season is the bomb on standing corn.
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Re: Corn fields
I set up in my ghillie suit on a small stool 7-9 rows back in the standing corn. Bent corn stalks over in order to make the shot. The opening of the first row of corn was about 5 feet wide and slowly narrowed to a point where I was sitting. There was an active scrape just to the right of the opening. I had my release attached to my bow string as I sat there. It was October 11th and the first below zero night was coming as well as having the moon overhead. He came to the scrape at 4:50, all of a sudden he was standing there at the opening, stopped and started licking the overhead branches. He had no idea I was there. I shot him at 8 yards. He field dressed at 215 lbs. He was my first mature buck.
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Re: Corn fields
I have set up in corn fields many times. Can be a deadly tactic. Like others have said, no need for a blind... if you go to the all time best tactical threads, look for “success from the ground”. There’s a diagram in there of how I like to set up.
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Re: Corn fields
Thanks all
Figured it was doable
This will be for the boy
He has a bit trouble sitting still(although he’s come a long way). The blind will help him
Figured it was doable
Lockdown wrote:I have set up in corn fields many times. Can be a deadly tactic. Like others have said, no need for a blind... if you go to the all time best tactical threads, look for “success from the ground”. There’s a diagram in there of how I like to set up.
This will be for the boy
He has a bit trouble sitting still(although he’s come a long way). The blind will help him
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Sailfish_WC wrote:Thanks all
Figured it was doableLockdown wrote:I have set up in corn fields many times. Can be a deadly tactic. Like others have said, no need for a blind... if you go to the all time best tactical threads, look for “success from the ground”. There’s a diagram in there of how I like to set up.
This will be for the boy
He has a bit trouble sitting still(although he’s come a long way). The blind will help him
I agree. Blind would be a good bet.
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