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corn fields

Just wondering how you northern guys tackle them. are there certain ways you want your dogs to hunt them? When you recast do you cast back into the corn or down the edge? Just give some examples please.

We hunt alot of corn, theres nothin more fun,a smart cornpatch dog runs the edges and pops em up in the hedge rows while the dummy bellars around in the corn runnin cross tracks all night.

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Im not from the nw but down here I use them for all sorts of things. My young pups that arent really treeing yet but have tons of energy I cut right in the corn and beans and they may run all night. My dogs that are treeing I send down the edge and I dont let them spend much time in the corn. Its great for the pups and will teach the ones with less heart to hit the edge and the timber. Ones with big hearts it will cut to peices and their ole eyes will be madded shut the next day. I like corn for tracks but hate navigating around it

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Originally posted by rthompson
Just wondering how you northern guys tackle them. are there certain ways you want your dogs to hunt them? When you recast do you cast back into the corn or down the edge? Just give some examples please.

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We cut them down the edge of the corn. But the coon do not just hang out around the edge. If you haven't seen corn damage way out in the middle of the cornfields before its just because you haven walked out there. A lot of our corn will be tore up around the edges but for some reason there will be big areas way out in the middle matted down. There won't be a tree anywhere in site.

Takes a good track dog to get them runners out of the corn. Nothing like a good cornfield race! A good track dog can drive them out of the corn and not boo hoo around in it all night!

So half say cut the dog down the edge"first 4-6 rows" other half says cast into the middle. ive done both not real sure which is better is the only reason i ask. We dont have alot of corn here but enough to hunt just tryin to figure the best or most productice to tree the most coon quick.

I hunt a river that boarders fields (corn,cotton,almonds etc) i hunt the dirt road in between the river and the fields. Ive found that the coons will cross that road from the river to get to the fields. Most of the time the dogs will strike a track of the coon coming out of the fields headin back to the river.

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There's corn and soy for as far as the eye can see around here. ALWAYS cut them down the edge. Letting your hound run around in the middle is a bad idea. They will likely bump some trash, their eyes will be tore up and I've seen two hounds overheat from being in there to long. Plus them coon seem to know where a drain tile or hole is way out in them fields, with corn or tall beans it sucks getting to them. And that farmer your hunting on don't want you in his crop. Stay to the edges where the corn meets the timber. There's a reason why we say "aww $&!!" when they head into the middle of a field around here.

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Originally posted by rthompson
So half say cut the dog down the edge"first 4-6 rows" other half says cast into the middle.

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Originally posted by Dale Huff
A lot of our corn will be tore up around the edges but for some reason there will be big areas way out in the middle matted down. There won't be a tree anywhere in site.

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Originally posted by Slowpoke 2012
There's corn and soy for as far as the eye can see around here. ALWAYS cut them down the edge. Letting your hound run around in the middle is a bad idea. They will likely bump some trash, their eyes will be tore up and I've seen two hounds overheat from being in there to long. Plus them coon seem to know where a drain tile or hole is way out in them fields, with corn or tall beans it sucks getting to them. And that farmer your hunting on don't want you in his crop. Stay to the edges where the corn meets the timber. There's a reason why we say "aww $&!!" when they head into the middle of a field around here.

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Originally posted by RLenhart
That right there sounds more like bear damage to me. Coon do not mat corn down. They will knock stocks over to get the ears but the only thing I know of that mats crops down like that is bear.

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In my experience the coon get in the middle of the fields earlier in the season because the corn around the edges isn't ready to be eaten. Later on the edges start yielding better and the coon don't have to go to the middle. The edges don't ever yield what the center does. You can ask any farmer about that. We don't have bear and I've seen areas inside the first several rows that look like a helicopter landed. And no it was alien crop circles!!!!

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Originally posted by DFred
In my experience the coon get in the middle of the fields earlier in the season because the corn around the edges isn't ready to be eaten. Later on the edges start yielding better and the coon don't have to go to the middle. The edges don't ever yield what the center does. You can ask any farmer about that. We don't have bear and I've seen areas inside the first several rows that look like a helicopter landed. And no it was alien crop circles!!!!

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I think it might be that raccoon apocalypse that msinc is geared up for

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we always cut down the edges. dogs usualy go were ever.. an after tree. just walk out an down edge a little bit an send again. but i agree. coons in middle early an then move out as the corn gets ready

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Originally posted by DFred
In my experience the coon get in the middle of the fields earlier in the season because the corn around the edges isn't ready to be eaten. Later on the edges start yielding better and the coon don't have to go to the middle. The edges don't ever yield what the center does. You can ask any farmer about that. We don't have bear and I've seen areas inside the first several rows that look like a helicopter landed. And no it was alien crop circles!!!!

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definitely coon not bear where I hunt. We always cut the dogs down the edge or within the first 10 rows.