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With a pair of hunters blocking the natural exit route downwind on the field, two more took up positions on each side of the field, but at a staggered pattern with a good 150 yards between each of them. This was to establish a safe fire zone and not shoot across that short cornstalk-infested flats and thereby hit the hunter on the opposite side. Now with everyone in position, it was time to glass and comb those rows. Maybe with luck, some winter meat would be brought to the table.

Tom and another friend, Jerome Bressler, had already hunted the corn a week earlier. At that time the same system had netted four plump doe, and on this wind-driven morning, the system would be exactly the same. Now the hunt was about to progress. Jerome and I had drawn long straws, and it was my job to take the position on the back side of the corn field as Jerome walked the two-track roadside a full 200 yard to my rear. Glassing his half of the long clean rows of slightly snowdrifted corn stalks as I did the same on my side, we proceeded down the mile section toward our blocking partners, working as a team.