deer are not the dumbest creatures in the woods, that why the big boys get like that, when season starts and the hunting pressure goes up significantly , it pressures the deer in altering their routes , and feeding times...i bet if you would hang a trail cam you will catch those bucks at night instead of during the day...another good idea is between 2 and 5 pm... tried that yet ?...

deer seem to know when we are eating and not in the woods...

then again i haven't seen alot of activity the past 14 days ,i'm not sure what's going on, but the area i took both my buck 4 weeks ago doesn't show any life signs deer wise. i'm just going to keep at it , as i know they walk that route...it can't be the hunting pressure as i'm the only one hunting about a 600 acre tract...unless there are poachers and tresspassers around ofcourse...and i don't hunt it 24/7, only 2 days out of the week and only half days... liek in my case they might be coming out at 2pm in teh afternoon , that's when i'm not in the tree...