RE: feeding deer corn year round?
Pup,
The best thing is that the bigger bucks are probably bedding and staying in your property. You want the best solution to your problem?
Pick out the most prime piece of your property, somewhere central and make them a refuge that you never enter from August 1 until the end of your hunting season.
I have two on our 347 acre farm one is 45 acres and the other is 67 acres.
45 acres one is on a southern exposed side hill with oaks the deer love this refuge during the rifle season.
67 acres refuge is surrounding by three sides with 3 types of food plots and the rest consists of many tight growing hemlocks and a small stream.
We shoot our does during the early season so when rifle season hits the deer flock into these areas and by allowing a number of does to enter the bucks tend to follow and hold up in these areas. Eventually the bucks make that fatal move and work out of these areas. It is not uncommon for me to go into these refuges after season and push out 30-40 deer bucks and does.
Give this a shot. Let the old lady feed them and get them nice and fat for your freezer