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Hit List Bucks on the Move
Posted By Josh Neville at 9/27/2011 12:00:00 AM

The deer have definitely made their food transition from green soybeans over to cut corn, acorns, or green fields.  The corn has been coming out fast in NW Missouri and East-Central Kansas.  There were actually areas of Eastern Kansas that had the corned picked back in mid-August.  We have been concentrating the majority of our hunting to cut corn fields right now.  Over the last week and a half, the deer have been coming out in droves to the fresh corn spillage and many of them well before dark.

  
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Last week while scouting a particular corn field, three shooters stepped out before 6:30PM.  First Pull, a buck we have had on our hit list for two years now, finally showed himself to me on the hoof.  This was the first time in the bucks six
 
years of existance that I laid eyes on him.  After filming him for five or ten minutes, I decided to put a stalk on him and ended up getting to within 30 yards of him while he was making a scrape.  Unfortunately there was thick brush in between him and I and he decided to take a trail back into the timber while I was on the edge of the field.  So close!!!
 
Besides cut corn, we have been seeing a lot of movement on an alfalfa food plot, which is only a month old, and happens to be surrounded by oaks heavy with acorns.  We had very good germination and the sprouts are an inch or two tall now and the deer are absolutely hammering it.  This plot and the cut corn field will be our two primary hunting locations for the next couple of weeks.

- Scott Mensing