I am new to the forum but had to put my two cents in...I havebeen hunting in Texas all my life. I've hunted on land where the deer are baited and other locations where there is no baiting. For the most part the mature deer will not go to a feeder during the day. A hunter has a better chance of getting a mature buck from locating scrapes or animal trails and not from the feeder. The primary reason we use feeders on our ranch is to pattern deer. We run guided hunts on 60,000 acres in southwest Texas so its helps us in our management practices. When natural food is abundant they won't even come to a feeder except at night maybe.