I know for a fact it wasn't put there by me or anyone in my family. I've ask and there is no reason for my parents to lie, they don't even hunt. It's family land and we gave a neighbor permission to ride through when they are in town(only a few times a year, but they're in town now, and thats when I found it). They know we are out on the property about 4 times a week and I just don't see it being them. It was just about a handfuls worth. I'm trying to think of every excuse as how it could have gotten there. As far as poaching, like I said, someone is down there just about everyday of the week and we have never had poaching problem. No homes relatively close by or within walking distance either. Will deer eat out of a corn pile and actually carry some away in their mouth, losing it as they go? It was only about 15 or so kernels. I dunno, any input?

A Doe Puked.

Morning Sickness, she must have already been bread. Guess the rut is done.

I haven't thought of that but Ive come up with every other scenario not to have to confront my neighbor.

Last year the week before a dove hunt a buddy had his two daughters out checking the fields and the daughter in the back of the gator thing was throwing out handfuls of corn he put in front of his game cameras

That's a good one, think I'll try that one on Mr. green jeans!!!

I'm just trying to come up with reasonable explanations as to how it got there. If its poachers for sure, they are very,VERY sneaky. It was such as small amount, I thinking an animal may have transported it somehow, some way. It guess it actually could have been regurgitated by deer, yote, etc. I dunno, just asking for suggestions. I've already falsly accused this neighbor of something else and don't want to accuse him again of something he had nothing to do with.

Now I gotta know what you falsely accused him of.....Waiting...
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If you figure it out let me know. I had the same thing happen to me last year during turkey season. Found about half a handful of corn in the edge of a food plot. you could tell it was recently put there simply because it hadn't been eaten. the plot wasn't near a road or a property line and I (as far as i know) was the only person hunting the place.
I never came up with a reasonable answer...

I never actually accused him directly but there was some theft from and around the hunting camp. They had just showed up and were parking their trucks and unloading 4 wheelers on our property, and riding to there's. They were also riding down our logging roads that aren't easements so that also had me hot.I bluntly told him there had been theft and everyone was a suspect until I found out who it was. I told them no more trespassing to reach their stands, they must somehow find another way to approach. Come to find out it was a meth head a few miles down the road that had done the stealing and apologized to my neighbor if I had been a little "hot headed". Since then we have become cordial and I let them go through only if no one is hunting that part of the property. Then I find corn, so I don't know what to think.

Its them damn dog hunters man.They train their dogs to take corn to other properties so they can get busted for baiting.

Well that does it! I've just added the dog hunter to my scat list. I knew if I came here it wold be solved by sundown.

I'm out! Gonna catch some corn feedin, dog running poachers, and try to kill a deer at the same time.

A chipmunk or squirrel decided to lighten the load he had in his mouth.

I've seen corn come out looking the same as it did when it went in. Just a thought.

Maybe that neighbor is holding a secret grudge ? I would look real good before I hunt that area again.

Don't know if this helps, but I shot a buck one time on land where I know there was no corn. He came off a neighbor's place, I shot him, loaded him in the truck and took him to the processor.
When we grabbed the horns and yanked him off the truck, he hit the ground and corn spewed everywhere from his mouth. They all looked at me funny, no way the ever believed I didn't shoot him over corn. I suspect you had one regurgitate or something like that. I don't think I would confront the neighbor.

I say this kind of tongue and cheek, but what area do you hunt. I ask because this all sounds so familiar. As long as I've hunted I've never heard a story that is so similar to what I experienced. We had someone poaching our property. We found his cigarette buts (always the same kind), and his shell casings. He stole climbers left on trees and he also stole cameras from food plots (I guess he realized his picture had been taken). But what got us all hot was we found two small piles of corn (about 10-15 kernels each) in neat piles. One pile was in the middle of an intersection of two roads, the other was in the woods about twenty yards behind a food plot (don't know how we found it, just looked down and there it was).

We know who was poaching, but we were miffed by the corn, thinking he had done that as well. Well, the only game warden in the region assured us that no one had reported we were putting out corn (as in being set up). So if we were being set up, what good if not reported. We knew we had not put any out.

So, going back a few years we remembered a similar thing on a different piece of property. We found a small pile of corn (10-15 kernels) in the woods, quite a way from anything. We just found it by accident. In this case we had no clue who had placed it, but knew it did not get there on its own.

At the end of the day, we decided these were not set ups. We don't know for sure but our conclusion was that some bird (crow maybe, or turkey)regurgitates the corn. In all the cases, the corn was in a neat pile, and was very clean.

I remember the pile in the middle of the road. It may have rained lightly since placed, but it was on a tire track we know was made the weekend before, and there were no footprints around; and this was quite a soft, sandy intersection with no grass or leaves for 10'-15'. No way someone could have walked out and placed the corn and not left any footprints. If it rained hard enough to wipe footprints, the tire tracks would have been washed and the neat corn stack would have been scattered.

Sorry for rambling but this has bothered me for 3-4 years.

There might just be a real answer caused by nature, and that the corn actually came from far away.

Elaketiger, I hunt in south Perry county. I'm glad someone else had had something similar happen. I don't want to be the jerk who's always busting chops and I was going to approach my neighbor by saying "hey, we might have a poacher around" tell him what i found, and to keep a look out. I honestly think it was transported by an animal. Deer, yote, crow, turkey, or any of the other 100 i didnt include. Crows are now my suspicion. It was very clean, no cud or stomach bile whatsoever. We have TONS of crows. Farmers have planted wheat behind cotton and the crows are as thick as I've ever seen. The piles were so small, that I thought to myself, why would someone put so little corn out if they were trying to attract deer. And the pile was clean and looked gently placed, not scattered around. My neighbor seems to be a very genuine guy, we are on property for too much to go on, we didn't do it, so it must be by animal. This raises another question. If Mr warden were to have walked up on me and saw this pile of corn, am I ticketed for hunting over bait? If I were to explain my theory, would he take me state to the state hospital

had something similar to this happen to me loading one into the truck. Now i know neighbors baiting is reason why deer sightings are down

If there's a cob nearby, could be coons.