A5 Sweet 16
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Just a reminder, since there seems to be plenty of interest in the status of the corn harvest in different areas of the state.....Don't forget that pheasants like beans too!! I hunted a public area 2 days last weekend with picked corn on one side & beans on the other, separated by maybe a couple hundred yards. I hunted about the last 1.5 hrs of sunlight each day. Of the 5 roosters I shot, only 1 had been eating corn recently. The others were full of beans. Granted, STANDING corn offers much better daytime cover, and I'm still a firm believer that all other things being exactly equal, they'll choose corn, particularly once winter sets in. I've even heard that they can't digest beans as well. My opinion, though, is that they'll eat whatever is EASIEST. Don't know what the difference would have been in this case, other than maybe beans were just more plentiful.