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Posted by Mike_Kelley on 07-26-2013 05:39 AM:

Corn field hunting ?

How do you usually hunt cornfields? Look for coon and cut hounds loose on hot track or cast hounds as if your in timber?

Posted by nickhagerman on 07-26-2013 08:52 AM:

i normally just set them right into it as if it was woods
they seem to always slam one pretty quik

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Posted by Hoosier Man1 on 07-26-2013 03:56 PM:

Re: Corn field hunting ?

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How do you usually hunt cornfields? Look for coon and cut hounds loose on hot track or cast hounds as if your in timber?

Edges and fence rows are your best friend when hunting around corn.

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Posted by Rolin Blues on 07-26-2013 05:30 PM:

CORNFIELDS

Good races are about to begin. Just send them down the rows along a wooded edge of the field. You might check to see where corn is pulled down to make sure they're working that area to make sure there will be a hot track, if working young dogs. I prefer a field 20 acres or less to run in so the dogs don't get over heated in summer in case the coon don't want to come out & climb. Take care, Ron.

Posted by GA DAWG on 07-26-2013 06:02 PM:

I send em down the edges next to or in woods.

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Posted by GreatLakes Reds on 07-26-2013 06:22 PM:

I send them up the out side usually along a fence row its better to catch them going in or coming out of the corn. Dogs usually just run the row if you cut them straight into the corn and may miss more coon .

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Posted by perry co cooner on 07-26-2013 06:24 PM:

I cut them where the corn and woods meet.

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Posted by rmcmillan on 07-26-2013 07:04 PM:

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Originally posted by perry co cooner
I cut them where the corn and woods meet.

Same here.

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Posted by kayapellijed390 on 07-27-2013 02:04 AM:

I avoid them like the plague! Of course around here 180 acre field is pretty small. I absolutely hate having dogs run circles all night out in the middle of a square mile of corn. I have hunted plenty of areas that have little patches if 20- 50 acrea with timber around them and those are great. But in these big fields the dogs are ten times more likely to catch a coon on the ground then they are to get one pushed out and up a tree.

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Posted by Autumn Clements on 07-27-2013 11:49 AM:

Usually always just cut them down the edge of the corn or in one row.

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Posted by perry co cooner on 07-27-2013 11:49 AM:

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Originally posted by kayapellijed390
I avoid them like the plague! Of course around here 180 acre field is pretty small. I absolutely hate having dogs run circles all night out in the middle of a square mile of corn. I have hunted plenty of areas that have little patches if 20- 50 acrea with timber around them and those are great. But in these big fields the dogs are ten times more likely to catch a coon on the ground then they are to get one pushed out and up a tree.

I never thought about you guys in the Midwest with huge corn fields. Our corn fields are relatively small around here so the make for some fun, quick strikes and trees. We still catch an occasional coon on the ground but usually they'll head for the timber.

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Posted by kayapellijed390 on 07-27-2013 06:17 PM:

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Originally posted by perry co cooner
I never thought about you guys in the Midwest with huge corn fields. Our corn fields are relatively small around here so the make for some fun, quick strikes and trees. We still catch an occasional coon on the ground but usually they'll head for the timber.

I was hunting a young dog all by herself the other night. I dumped her along a shelterbelt of trees with a stock dam about halfway down. The gyp struck in the trees, probably near the den, then pushed the track to the pond where she proceeded to take the track across the road into a huge corn field. I dumped that dog at about 10:00 p.m. after listening to her race around in the corn for 45 minutes or so I said screw it! I went home and grabbed another dog and hunted that dog by herself all night about a mile or so from where the other gyp was running in the corn. I was close enough that I could still barely hear the other gyp running in the corn and my garmin would pick her up and track her fairly regularly. At around 2:00 in the morning I quit hunting and went to try to call 'ol corn racer out of the field. At right around 2:45 she finally came out to the road and I caught her. Almost 5 hours of the night wasted! I am thoroughly convinced that the coon gets to running away from the dog in those huge fields and gets lost and couldn't find his way back to a tree if his life depended on it. They either get lucky and find their way out on accident, end up treed up a little spindly tree in the fence line way out in the middle of the section, get away from the dogs, or end up getting stretched. I hate corn fields!!!!!! I do love hunting them in other states though. Seems like my dogs do really good at pushing them out of those little corn patches in other areas of the country in short order. I do have one spot that has about about a 40-50 acre field of corn that is planted between the branches of a big "Y" shaped, timbered valley and then has a shelterbelt running across the top of the "Y" so basically it is a triangle shaped field with trees all around it. Only has corn in it every other year ir so but on the years it is corn it is one of my honey holes. A few years ago that field was one of the last corn fields in the area to get harvested and a buddy and I hunted it off of fourwheelers. In about two hours we killed 12 coon all around that thing. Dogs where treeing them faster than we could skin the last one! Wish I had more fields like that, then it would be fun. About the only good thing about those big fields is the dogs end up in real good shape from all that hard running.

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