Perhaps a little more detail about my hunting situation will help you understand.

Private Land-A small 50 acre tract 100% covered by planted pines w/ no food plots. This area is usually reserved for late season hunting because of the cover it provides. There is virtually no food source on the property. Although I did kill the 10 point and the doe he was chasing there during the rut.

Public Land-I hunt the core of Engineers land on the chattahoochee river and west point lake. There are two types of food sources. 1) Acorns 2) Tube grass that grows on the lake bed when the water is down. The vast majority of these 5,000 acres only extened 100-150 yards off the shoreline. There is not much cover. So historically, the deer bed on private land and come down to the water to eat acorns and tube grass. Last year the water level was up and I don't see that changing, so there will once again be no tube grass. Therefore I need acorns to draw the deer off the prive land where they are well fed from people baiting them.

Last year I would drive to camp friday night, spend Sat morning riding up and down the river looking for some kind of food source being used, then hunt Sat. evening and sunday morning because my usual honeyholes didn't have any food. It worked ok, I killed three does using this method.

What's my point? No Acorns+No Tube Grass=Deer standing over a pile of corn on private land