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Hunting AG fields
#2581612
09/16/18 07:42 PM
09/16/18 07:42 PM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 397 North Alabama
roscopeecotrane
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4 point
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OP
4 point
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 397
North Alabama
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I’ve picked up some Farms to hunt. I have always hunted big open hardwoods, creek bottoms and pine plantations. The ag fields are huge and have smaller patches of woods with mixed trees. Any advice from you guys that hunt ag fields? I want some pics of what is there but with corn everywhere on the ground from the combines what could I put out to get a few pics before bow season opens and where should I start with hanging stands?. Thanks
Last edited by roscopeecotrane; 09/16/18 07:46 PM.
Luck is where preparation meet opportunity
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: grundan]
#2581764
09/16/18 09:23 PM
09/16/18 09:23 PM
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Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 6,444 Alabama
Jakethesnake
The Flippin’ Idiot That Could Care Less
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The Flippin’ Idiot That Could Care Less
Joined: Jun 2017
Posts: 6,444
Alabama
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They will bed in them hedge rows. It will surprise you how many deer stay in them little patches of trees. Better get the wind right or they will blow out of there This
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: NightHunter]
#2582077
09/17/18 11:23 AM
09/17/18 11:23 AM
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Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 5,509 Luverne
tbest3
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Jun 2016
Posts: 5,509
Luverne
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Don’t get deep in fields and stay out of the woods. Set up some good ladders or tri-pods and wait till rifle season. My preference is to be able to cover 500-600 yards.
If you try and get through the fields you WILL bust deer out consistently. The key is to access a few stands unnoticed. Big ag fields with pockets of timber here and there is about all I've hunted my whole life. Listen to this man ^^.
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: roscopeecotrane]
#2582125
09/17/18 12:16 PM
09/17/18 12:16 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 10,485 coffee county
goodman_hunter
Booner
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Booner
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Posts: 10,485
coffee county
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find the trails, you can put your camera and some corn inside the woods in a staging area they hit before going into the field to get pics. We never plant food plots on the very edge so that we can watch tracks and drive around field to retrieve kills. Get some good binos for gun season. They come to the edge and look for does during the rut, and never actually enter the field. Sometimes they'll have trails that run parallel to the woods edge and just walk by winding the fields. Get some shooting sticks to brace yourself on longer shots. For bow hunting, find the acorn trees. I'm like nighthunter. I try to stay out of the woods till gun season. Put stands for different wind, try to keep cover like NH said when going to stands. You'll probably end up moving some stands next year when you see what they're doing. They're pretty routine around ag fields. They'll have 2-3 trails to access a field that they'll always seem to use. Make sure stands are hidden cause alot of times they'll stand inside wood line and look. Especially if they're by themselves, so you need some cover as well. They'll learn you as fast as you learn them if not faster.
Last edited by goodman_hunter; 09/17/18 12:17 PM.
For without victory, there is no survival
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: roscopeecotrane]
#2582137
09/17/18 12:21 PM
09/17/18 12:21 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 10,485 coffee county
goodman_hunter
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Booner
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i like to hunt the back corner of a field thats kind hidden from sight due to a terrace or something. They seem to feel more comfortable if they're hidden.
For without victory, there is no survival
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: roscopeecotrane]
#2582309
09/17/18 03:03 PM
09/17/18 03:03 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 10,485 coffee county
goodman_hunter
Booner
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Booner
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when i hunt morning, get close to the field or as close as i can. And hunt from the ground with binos until i can see good enough. that i know there aint any deer in the field before i climb. I never climb in the dark. Even in the afternoon. i dont climb till i've scanned the field with binos
For without victory, there is no survival
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: goodman_hunter]
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09/17/18 03:25 PM
09/17/18 03:25 PM
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 6,999 Holly Pond, AL
NightHunter
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Posts: 6,999
Holly Pond, AL
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when i hunt morning, get close to the field or as close as i can. And hunt from the ground with binos until i can see good enough. that i know there aint any deer in the field before i climb. I never climb in the dark. Even in the afternoon. i dont climb till i've scanned the field with binos We did this or get there extremely early. We killed far more deer including mature bucks in the am on our ag fields.
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: roscopeecotrane]
#2582339
09/17/18 03:28 PM
09/17/18 03:28 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681 Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
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I suggest you go this weekend and climb, watch where the deer enter and leave the fields. Then hunt it accordingly. Hunt safe
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Hunting AG fields
[Re: roscopeecotrane]
#2582595
09/17/18 08:12 PM
09/17/18 08:12 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
Posts: 38,489 N. Bama
257wbymag
Boo Boo Head
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Boo Boo Head
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Posts: 38,489
N. Bama
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Park in field about 4 in truck. Binos and gun out window. Mirror makes a fine rest. Best shooting house ever made
Quietly killing turkeys where youre not!!! My tank full of give a fraks been runnin on empty I'm the paterfamilias
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