titan23_87 wrote:dan wrote:dreaming bucks wrote:I personally have watched mature bucks step out of the cornfields a half hour before dark to feed in the alfalfa fields... This is in hill country for me, and when the mosquito's are really bad in the woods, I guess I just figured they are doing it to get away from them...
I have seen that a lot in the summer around the areas I hunt most, but fall they are generally in the swamp... It is VERY common for bucks to bed on the edge of corn, and then enter the corn when the rise and come out some place else. If there bedding in corn, you should be able to find those beds.
I hunted a plaCE IN Illinois once and saw bucks bedding on a pretty regular basis in corn mixed with grass, but there was a heavy population, heavy pressure, and very little cover. And still most bedded right on the edge or at some kind of cover, not really within the corn.
Dan- when bedding on the edge of the corn, Or in the example I’m looking at a small clump of trees and grass in the middle of the corn. How are they most likely to bed? Nose and eyes to the corn, or nose and eyes back to the grass/trees?
Looking down wind. If there is an opening they will be on the up wind side looking down wind. If its heavy thick cover it could be noise based rather than vision in which they still look down wind, but eyes are of little use.