Buckstomper,

I'm having the same problem you are and I hunt about 60 miles east of your area near Lake Bridgport. Given that we probably have similar surroundings, I think the weather is our biggest issue right now. I feed my deer year round and they basically stopped coming to corn around the beginning of October. Just way too many acorns on the ground and they don't have to move much to get them.

I tried a variety of these different attractants the last few weeks. I put different ones at different spots and had cameras on all of them. I bought C'Mere Deer, Buck Rage, Acorn Rage, Block Toppers, and a couple of others. Though the deer seemed to sample all of them, the corn was still what they wanted most.

The deer on my place in Wise county seem to be completely nocturnal right now and seemed to feed between 10pm and 4am. I have not had a buck on camera during daylight hours since September. The rut should be in full swing right now, but I don't know how much that's helping as I hunted sun-up to sun-down for three days last weekend. The wind hurt quite a bit, but coupled with low temps around 70, the deer just don't seem to be moving during daylight.

Of course, like you, I could use a good fire. I had too much brush before our record rains this year. There are areas on my place where the broom weed is higher than the roof of my truck. Hard to see deer in those types of conditions.

My suggestion is to save your money. I spent about $100 that I don't think has paid well at all. I will say that the hogs seem to really like to sweet block toppers (which has caused a new problem at my feeders).