My experience with Baiting is this: the owner of the land I hunt on has a few feeders which they don't run all year long. Its a two hour drive for them and they only use them for a month or so before the season. The bench they put me on is 200 yards from the "bait". I've done this for about 3days worth of hunting (gun) over the last 3 years.

I do use topos, and land features to try and figure out where the deer are going to be while bowhunting. I personally don't even like to hunt with baits, but I totally understand why people do it, and I even see why people use drives.