The thing I dislike about baiting is that it conditions the animals to come to the diner table. If the food is all nice and piled up every day in the same place and easy to find.... the deer sleep in. They don't have to forage and wander for food like they do if the bait piles weren't there. SO, they sleep in later and arrive at the feed at dark or just after dark, gorge themselves and take a nap. I think the smart old deer will hang back and not come until dark. For those who say its like a food plot.... well... Not exactly. It's a little tougher deciding which trail a deer is going to take to enter a field than it is to hunt over a feeder. It's a little tougher to decide WHICH field a deer is going to. You know deer will be at the feeder.