Up here in Michigan I look for a hump on the nose to indicate an older (3.5 - 5.5 yr old) deer. With 700,000 licensed hunters up here such deer are a rare sight, and then only on big farms or in deep cedar swamps. Racks could be anything from 8 to 16+ points and tend to be really thick on older, dominant bucks.
Deer seem to like corn for cover and some feed. They love soybeans for protein browse, and acorns are dessert/deer candy.