A sure fire can't miss for any deer... North or South... is raw peanuts in the shell. They're very expensive. I think 100 pounds will run you close to $90 here at the local Southern States. I have a few deer in the yard every night. They come about 1/2 mile from the nearest woods to my yard. Right now I just chop up about 6 apples and put out a couple 2 pound coffee cans of corn. About once a year I splurg and buy a bag of peanuts. I only sprinkle a few in the corn. I haven't done that yet this year. I'll wait until Jan or so.

I too have heard that all corn is NOT good for deer. Just as feeding them is not good. I spread my nightly tid bits around in different places in the yard. I just broadcast the corn and apples. That way there isn't so much nose to nose feeding etc. I probably have a half dozen minimum every night so they're not getting their whole quota of food on corn and apples. About 3 years ago I had 17 different deer in the yard one night. I don't see as many as I used to. I'm sure someone is sneaking into their little sanctuary and whacking one now and then. The largest bucks have disappeared so I know something is going on.

I think you're wrong about the deer not moving far from his yard. You'd be surprised how far they travel. There may be only one set of tracks by your stand for a reason. The reason is probably... It's YOur stand. You've been patterned. You got to have more than one spot to hunt and rotate often... no more than a couple times a week in one spot and that's too often for me. You say you had snow. Just take a walk and find out where they are traveling and going. Sometimes a scouting trip is much more valuable than sitting in "THE STAND".