My personal opinion is in the real world and open free range hunting like 99% of us do that you will never and I mean never kill the largest or even probably the top 3 largest bucks over a bait pile. If you live in some extreme weather conditions way way up north then maybe. I have seen it 100 times from friends and other hunters and even myself a long time ago. Trying to bait to get a big buck doesnt work. Even if you have several big bucks on the property there is no reason for them to get up and eat before dark when they know the food is in the same spot everyday. Just my opinion but I hunt an area with some pretty big deer and every year the guys who bait say I stopped seeing bucks this year or something equivalent. Good luck