Unless it's the rut deer sleep and eat and don't do much else except travel between where they sleep and eat. So hunt food sources and travel routes.....the problem with Oct (and why people say it's such a hard month) is because there's so much mast falling and deer love acorns......especially white oaks, so they don't have to travel far to get full and pack on the fat for winter. I've even seen deer pass up shelled corn from a feeder for acorns.Also acorns taste different from differnt trees, even different white oaks will taste different (there have been attempts to domesticatesome types of oaks but all have failed, ((Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel")).....one of the Korean lady's whos house I hunt behind gathers acorns this time of year and makes pancakes and other stuff from them) ....so if you can find a pin oak or a standof white oak that's tastey that's half the battle....I have this 40 acre horse farm I hunt and there's a big pin oak in the middle of one field andin Oct there are always deer under itno matter what.