where do bucks bed in standing corn.

I’ve never thought of this before but with a couple reports coming from 2 different guys I though where are bucks going to bed with does coming into heat. This is just a perhaps and thats all it is but in the past when I’m grunting next to standing corn, one minute a bucks not there and the next he is. My daughers boyfriend arrowed a 150″ 10 pointer a few days ago just inside the corn. What I’m wondering is do bucks bed just inside the corn instead of 30 to 40 rows back in. If the does are coming into heat to me it makes more sense for a buck to bed down and hide just a few rows back in so he can see them. This would make sense when it comes to not being able to hear a buck walking in the corn on a calm day. Personally I think thats what they do instead of bedding way back in the corn.

A good stand setup next to a cornfield might be the trick to hunting standing corn when its not out of the field yet. What do you think?

I would agree mossydan At my old place, my favorite stand was right next to corn, when that is what the farmer planted… I seen multiple bucks walking 2-3 rows inside…. they were on the upwind edge of the field. Now I can’t say they didn’t do this on the other side, I wasn’t sitting there, but almost always, the doe would be on the edge and the bucks I would see, were a couple rows in…. after discovering this, a few bent over stalks make a nice shooting lane…a few bit the broadhead this way

I think your theory is solid. I’ll be testing it this weekend in SD. Our stands are bordered to the west by corn in a couple of them. Wind allowing us to hunt them of course.

Dan:

I’ve put on a few windy-day stalks on cornfield deer before, and most of the bedded deer in the corn are inside of 30 rows against a woods-edge.

Esp. cornfields near a river or waterway that has good woods. The best stalks I’ve ever put on were in this type of scenario, where the rows were planted parallel to the woods edge. Stalk with the wind in your face, and the deer are typically bedded down with their nose into the wind. That means you’re coming up on their blind-side, giving you a pretty good advantage in really windy weather.

If you’re stand-hunting, same principle like G said. Wind in your face on the bottom edge of the field edge. The only problem is that deer also like to bed in the grassy/weedy areas along the field edge, making it tough to hunt the right wind.

I’ve got a buddy who’s best bedding area is inside a cornfield where a powerline crosses. The support cables come down for each of the power-poles, and the farmer can’t farm this. The result is a string of weedy patches surrounded by corn. Good luck hunting that!

Joel

I agree guys, why would a buck bed down way back in the corn when the does are in heat, to me they wouldn’t. Tom Gursky and his friend Mike are down here hunting and Tom shot a pretty nice 9 Pointer today around noon, Tom said the bucks are really looking for does now. When the does start to come in heat the bucks will be running blind. Mike said hes seen 4-5 8 pointers of all sizes with a couple in the 150″ to 160″ range. A few smaller basket racks mix in too with a few 4’s and 6’s. Mike said the two 8’s were nice ones.

Mikes going back out in the morning by himself to an area and by the way he described it, it sounds really good. He said theres a half dozen trails criss crossing back and forth in a ravine with a creek at the bottom and he said it looks like an interstate on all the trails with heavy use. I’m going with Mike Thursday and Friday if he doesn’t fill his tag tomorrow to help him try to get one, I’ve had to work this week so far and have Thursday and Friday off. He’s had chances at smaller bucks and the one nice 8 pointer but I told him not to shoot the first buck he sees and to hold out for one of atleast a 150″ or bigger with a nice minimum deduction rack. I told Mike what we’ll do is find and look an area over and he will stand in one spot and depending on what the wind is doing I’ll try to rattle and grunt a buck by him. I’ve got time to hunt the full season and Mike doesn’t and I told him Id like to see him go home with a 160 or bigger. Their in this area and he knows he’ll just have to wait it out. Mike did say that he seen 5 or 6 bucks today and three yesterday of all different sizes. When they leave this weekend Mikes coming back the 14th and were going hunting again. I told him if he wants a real trophy he has to just wait it out, so he is coming back to try for a real nice one.

Tom brought his 9 pointer to within shot range with a doe bleat, I’ll let him tell the story when he gets back to the U.P., he said it gutted out at around 175 so it was over 225 on the hoof. Neither of them have seen some of the really big ones that are here and go 300 lbs. but their here. Anyway look for Toms story this weekend or around the beginning of the week.

When Mike gets back the hunting should be very very good and the does should be coming in by then, the way it looks here and where the moon will be and what the bucks are doing now I’m expecting a good hunt.

I’ve watched deer bed in those areas where just a little grass around a high line pole or old rock pile etc… Good luck getting close to them. That’s why they are wiley old bucks I guess.

I’m pretty sure the wind will blow in SD this weekend at some point, so we likely be doing some corn hunting. The prerut is just kicking in from what I’m told.