Daryl, in addition to "clean rows" in the corn, there are other problems these days when it comes to hunting pheasants in standing corn. Far fewer birds; taller corn; bigger fields. But I too remember hunting standing corn with a lot of foxtail and other weeds. Those were prime spots for roosters in Iowa back in the 50's and 60's, when I was first getting started. But usually, I didn't hunt with big enough groups to spend much time in standing corn anyway. I did a lot of hunting dogless in road ditches and along RR tracks. The latter is technically private property, but everybody did it back then and the railroad companies didn't seem to mind.
