Corn Fields for Deer

[Truedouble]

This is our first time to plant corn so we will have standing corn to hunt over. That being said, what should we do, if anything with the corn? Bush hog lanes, leave it all standing, bush hog half the field later in the season, etc.? Never had to think about this before and the corn that used to be on our place was harvested.

 

[muddyboots]

I leave mine standing.

 

[Football Hunter]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

 

[river925]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

Crop manipulation completely legal. Another reason baiting being illegal is dumb.

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

bushhog a lane each week,works well

 

[Truedouble]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

Crop manipulation completely legal. Another reason baiting being illegal is dumb.

Let me tell you, keeping a feeder full with corn would be a heck of a lot easier than planting corn which consisted of going to the farm to bushhog the field, going back to spray the field, going back to disc the field and then going back to plant the field only to keep fingers crossed that it would rain enough to make all your efforts worth while. Tractors and planters aren't cheap either. Just my opinion though.

Thanks for the input. I thought cutting lanes would be beneficial but just wanted to get some ideas.

 

[Football Hunter]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

Crop manipulation completely legal. Another reason baiting being illegal is dumb.

Let me tell you, keeping a feeder full with corn would be a heck of a lot easier than planting corn which consisted of going to the farm to bushhog the field, going back to spray the field, going back to disc the field and then going back to plant the field only to keep fingers crossed that it would rain enough to make all your efforts worth while. Tractors and planters aren't cheap either. Just my opinion though.

Thanks for the input. I thought cutting lanes would be beneficial but just wanted to get some ideas.

All true,except keeping a feeder during deer season is frowned upon.Also,a feeder concentrates deer to one spot,a bush hogged field does not,also leaves cover,kind of like the motel and the restaurant being right beside each other.

 

[DWM]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

Crop manipulation completely legal. Another reason baiting being illegal is dumb.

Let me tell you, keeping a feeder full with corn would be a heck of a lot easier than planting corn which consisted of going to the farm to bushhog the field, going back to spray the field, going back to disc the field and then going back to plant the field only to keep fingers crossed that it would rain enough to make all your efforts worth while. Tractors and planters aren't cheap either. Just my opinion though.

Thanks for the input. I thought cutting lanes would be beneficial but just wanted to get some ideas.

It would also be easier to go to a high fence pen and shoot the one you want but that isn't hunting now is it? Hunting is not suppose to be about easy. It it is to much work and to expensive to grow corn then don't do it. Just go hunting. You might be surprised at how more proud of your kill you will be. A real feeling of accomplishment. jmo

 

[String Music]

Cut a lane in it and overseed with wheat, winter peas, and some type of brassica.

 

[Jarred525]

Cut a lane in it and overseed with wheat, winter peas, and some type of brassica.

I like to do this as well. Deer feel safe coming out in these lanes with the standing corn around.

 

[Truedouble]

Bush hogging lanes as the season goes on will be awesome.Not sure its legal though.

Crop manipulation completely legal. Another reason baiting being illegal is dumb.

Let me tell you, keeping a feeder full with corn would be a heck of a lot easier than planting corn which consisted of going to the farm to bushhog the field, going back to spray the field, going back to disc the field and then going back to plant the field only to keep fingers crossed that it would rain enough to make all your efforts worth while. Tractors and planters aren't cheap either. Just my opinion though.

Thanks for the input. I thought cutting lanes would be beneficial but just wanted to get some ideas.

It would also be easier to go to a high fence pen and shoot the one you want but that isn't hunting now is it? Hunting is not suppose to be about easy. It it is to much work and to expensive to grow corn then don't do it. Just go hunting. You might be surprised at how more proud of your kill you will be. A real feeling of accomplishment. jmo

Maybe you took my post the wrong way, but I completely agree the harder you work the more rewarding the kill. I don't even really like pay hunts that are free range. Have been taken on several and although I enjoy seeing new properties and watching deer and hanging out in a nice lodge with friends, etc. there was almost no excitement when a deer walked out. Also even though our corn field was planted to attract deer and turkeys killing a deer in a field you took the time and effort to plant makes the experience even that much more rewarding. Don't think a person could get that same good feeling watching or killing a deer where they had just poured out corn or filled up a feeder. I guess part of it is a state of mind but part of it is effort and time and providing a foodsource that comes out of the ground not out of a bag.

 

[Truedouble]

Cut a lane in it and overseed with wheat, winter peas, and some type of brassica.

That's what I plan to do. Should be interesting to see what happens.

 

[BoonerBucks]

corn fields attract deer like magnets...especially if it's not available anywhere close by except on your land :smile:

 

[Bigg E]

Cut a lane in it and overseed with wheat, winter peas, and some type of brassica.

That's what I plan to do. Should be interesting to see what happens.

My brother did this on a cornfield he had a couple years ago. He had a shooting house on the uphill side and bushogged, disced and planted wheat in three strips, one straight away from the shooting house and one at an angle to the left and right. That was an awesome setup. The deer really used the wheat a lot. It was hard to sit in there and not see deer. Good luck