MOBIGBUCKS wrote:basspro05 wrote:Thank you for bumping this up, when you talk about crop rotation, are you saying that they tend to bed in these fingers and islands in the crop fields when its corn rather than beans or the opposite?
I have a lot of public areas in KS I can apply this too hopefully, this is great information. Thank you!
Yup, exactly what I have found. The beds in the isolated cover fingers definitely get used more when the rotation is in corn. No doubt it's because of the heavy pressure and the corn provides the overhead cover and security for them to move during daylight hours along the edges.
Look for old erosion and irrigation ditches as well. That is where that B/C I encountered was bedding. It had Johnson grass and shorter corn stalks than the area surrounding it. Tough buck to hunt when they bed like this; definitely have to wait two years to match up the bedding conditions in this particular ditch.
Thank you, one area I have scouted pretty well will be corn this rotation, so do you think they are more prone to bed on the ridges or treed lots if its in beans?