But in all Seriousness a Good Buck Seldome and vary rarely approache's a Feeder in the Daylight, there just too smart for that. Doe's, Fawn's and Yearling Bucks will, but the Older Smarter Bucks almost Never do.
That's about the way it goes
Breechplug. If I set a climbing stand fifty yards back in the woods next to a foodplot I can watch bucks cruise the perimeter of the plot ten yards back in the woods sniffing out the does that are on the plot. They seldom enter the plot unless there's a hot doe out there. They don't go to the feeder.
Cabage, I don't know if you have any personal experience using timed feeders. I do. I have three small foodplots and have operated them without feeders and with feeders that throw a pound of corn one half hour after first light and one hour before dark. I have cameras on all three plots that tell the tale.
The normal pattern is that does and yearlings enter the plot about the same in the morning and evening regardless of whether there is a feeder on the plot or not. Sometimes they don't enter the plot for several days. When it's like that they don't seem to be going to any of the plots in the area. When they are using the plots I get pictures of deer on every plot during the same time frame. They are either moving and feeding at a certain time, or they are not.
If there's a feeder, the yearlings will go to the corn almost immediately. The mature does sometimes eat the corn, but usually stick with the wheat and clover. Over the last dozen years I can count the times on one hand that a mature buck went to a feeder during shooting hours. But if one does you can bet I'm going to take the shot.