1YLAB
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Post by 1YLAB on Sept 6, 2006 8:33:02 GMT -5
Have you decided on which stand you going to use on opening day?
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Post by ncboman on Sept 6, 2006 9:42:38 GMT -5
I thought I had a good spot but a couple of days ago I watched it from a distance and only saw one deer headin to the corn. The deer seem to have moved down to the land I can't hunt where the beans and peanuts are for now so I'm not sure. They cycle back and forth but usually they are on my end this time of year.
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1YLAB
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Post by 1YLAB on Sept 6, 2006 9:48:27 GMT -5
Did the corn get blown over in the storm up your way or is still standing?
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Post by ncboman on Sept 6, 2006 10:54:35 GMT -5
This particular cornfield is standing tall. It's relatively low land there and it has to dry out before they can get a combine in so the corn hasn't been picked yet. Wind damage here was minimum and very spotty, more of a water event. That said, I don't think I've had so many calls since Isabell.
hmmm,
all the water on my end of that farm may be why the deer went to the other end. Maybe when things dry out the deer will come back.
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Post by Twanger on Sept 8, 2006 10:12:03 GMT -5
I'll be playing golf at Pinehurst, NC on Maryland's opening day.
I'd rather be bow hunting, but golf is not a bad second-choice.
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Post by Buckfever on Sept 8, 2006 13:38:49 GMT -5
I have a stand up, that I was planning on starting at, but they cut down the overgrowth under the powerlines. There were 12 foot sumacs that provided a great travel corridor. They might still bed there though it's plenty thick still. On the other hand it might push them to bed on the Dept of forestry land which will push more towards me. Hard to know.
I'm going to scout out and setup 4 other stand sites so we'll see.
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Post by indianadan on Sept 8, 2006 16:19:34 GMT -5
Yes.
I have a stand up that is in the crossing of two fingers of woods that jut out into a corn field. The stand also sits at the end of a drainage that is overgrown with fox grass. The drainage is really only a long depression in the middle of a large field that naturally drains the field. It leads between a large block of timber and a known bedding area. The drainage was planted with corn, but the seed was either washed away or was drowned by the wet conditions, so it is a corridor for deer to travel easily. I killed my very first bow kill form that stand and haven't hunted from it much since. A squirrel hunt last weekend told me that multiple deer are bedding in the drainage approximately 50-60 yards from the stand. Hopefully the weather for the opener will be cool like we are getting now.
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