I would stress the importance of NOT using a "gravity" feeder, If You must feed, use only a broadcast feeder, one that realy slings it out there.

Any "pile" or "trough" of corn is just a disease spreader, all the deer are "lipping" the same corn. States have banned ALL feeding of deer (not just for hunting) because of this problem.

I dont have a problem (ethics wise) with someone hunting over a bait pile (It aint My idea of hunting though), but I do have a problem with it's impact on the deers health.

Slack