kayapellijed390
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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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