To me corn is only a lure. Its mostly worthless. I have appx 3 acres set aside for my deer herd( I think it basically now numbers 5 or 6 deer) I have about 1.5 acres planted in food plots all year long. Save the time it takes to turn under the winter stuff and put in the summer etc... And I make sure there is plenty of natural food at that time of switching. Its all fertilized. There is also 1.5 acres of a bit of cover. Wild plums. Adding honeysuckle to the thickets. Plenty of fertilized oaks available. And we plant a variety of feeds for them to browse on.

The feeder runs year round with soybeans and pellets. The self feeder will be full all year once I get it up.

I do not believe that you can ethically start feeding deer and then shut them off. Of course my ethics and others may differ.

I don't do this to lure them in for the kill only. I'm trying to manipulate the herd into us being able to see deer again in some numbers. And it seems to be working. For when I didn't have all this set aside, we saw no deer at all.

Jeff