I agree they would use the gravity feeders at night but 90% of my pics now with timed feeders are at night also. I've tried to change my feeder times up but it still doesn't matter. Any ideas on how to get them to hit the feeders in the day more?

I have a timed gravity feeder (kirvoman feeder)
Has saved be tons of protein from exotics wiping out a ton over one night
I set it to drop protein in the tube in the morning
I have been happy with it so far

Without question a timed feeder will produce more deer during daylight hours than a gravity feeder. Try this for a while. Set your timer to go off about 15 minutes before sunrise. Feed most of your corn then. Set it to go off about 45 minutes before sunset. Feed only a little corn at that time. They will learn to come to the feeder when it goes off. The number one problem with getting them to come to the feeder is....well actually there is two problems, one is that there is an abundance of other food right now for them to eat. We need a hard freeze to kill a lot of the plants and get them coming to feeders. But number two is the main problem that I see with people who say that the deer are only coming in at night. That is that they overfeed for the number of deer out their, therefore leaving a whole lot of corn on the ground for them to eat at night. Cut down on the amount of corn you throw, this will make the deer more aggressive towards coming to the feeder when it goes off. If they don't get there, they don't eat.

The problem with free choice, a lot of times deer will only hit them at night. We have three 1000 Lbs. protein feeders on our place, and 75% of the pics we get are at night,one thing to add though, we don't feed protein during hunting season, but i am sure the outcome would still be the same.

Timed feeders during hunting season.

Free Choice outside of hunting season.

Just my opinion.