I have a situation and I would like to hear what other guys would suggest as their way in overcoming a mature buck's tendency to become nocturnal just before the season opens.

Here is what I have going on...
Private land, surrounded by 300 acres to the west by land that cannot be hunted by anyone- country club, residences border the N side and private farm land surrounds the east with more residences bordering the south. Very little hunting pressure on the land I am hunting- just me on 75+ acres. I have food sources for the deer and up until a few weeks ago I had bucks and does coming into the food all hours of the day while very little activity at night. Now only doe during the day and the buck are now only coming in at night.

I think the deer are bedding right behind the houses to the north- a very thick lowland area leads from my stand to these houses. This is downhill from my stand in a bottleneck running along a soybean field.

Here is my plan... hunt 4 straight whole days 15 hours- 4am till dark during the first week. If I don't see the big boys during these 4 days I am going to stop hunting the area and wait until the rut kicks in. The doe should continue to stay in that area and feeding with their fawns in my plots as they are now 3 to 5 visits a day. I will use the doe as the bait during the rut.

I do not want to move any further into the thick stuff because I don't want to risk bumping the doe and especially not the bucks, I want to keep them at ease so they don't change the does' pattern or bump any of them out of the area. All of the deer are coming to my stand it's just the does during the day though.

Any advice? What have you guys done in these situations?