IowaHusker
New Member
Hey all,
I’m limited on the land I can hunt this shotgun season, and have two plots - one about 30 acres of mostly timber, and another about 100 acres but 95 of it being picked corn field. Neither piece of land really ‘holds’ deer, and both are mostly highways back and forth between either bedding areas or food (the corn was picked EARLY and has nothing left to give). I had success hunting the rut during archery, but with this gun season they just aren’t moving during daylight.
What are your strategies this late in the season when they aren’t up and moving due to the hunting pressure? In years past I’d have more land and do a deer drive but that’s not an option this year. Would you still try grunting? Rattling? There are deer on adjacent fields with food sources, just not on land I can hunt. What’s your strategy?
I’m limited on the land I can hunt this shotgun season, and have two plots - one about 30 acres of mostly timber, and another about 100 acres but 95 of it being picked corn field. Neither piece of land really ‘holds’ deer, and both are mostly highways back and forth between either bedding areas or food (the corn was picked EARLY and has nothing left to give). I had success hunting the rut during archery, but with this gun season they just aren’t moving during daylight.
What are your strategies this late in the season when they aren’t up and moving due to the hunting pressure? In years past I’d have more land and do a deer drive but that’s not an option this year. Would you still try grunting? Rattling? There are deer on adjacent fields with food sources, just not on land I can hunt. What’s your strategy?
