Which do you prefer? single choice
	Feeder
	Hand Corn
Votes accepted starting: 09/11/13 04:16 PM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

Placing food by hand involves scent covering and many 'consumers' learned the human scent and they might reject the food even if they don't feel in danger.

I've ran my feeder year round and haven't had pictures of deer at it. Put a trophy rock 50 yards away and after a few weeks, it's just now seeing some traffic but yesterday I put about 2-3lbs of corn on the ground around it to see if I can increase awareness. I seem to see more deer when I just pour corn on the ground then a feeder.

Spread corn often enough and the deer will not associate it with the small amount of human scent. We spread corn out of the back of the pickup by hand all of the time during season. Haven't seen it ever stack up.

We put corn on the front baskets of our four wheelers and cut them open running a corn trail between two feeders. Chances are that the deer would be on it by the time you get in the blind.

for does and young bucks the feeders are good, for the mature bucks it is looking like hand corn is better.

I do both so can't vote in this poll. I use the spin feeder to put out a little corn two to four times per day. But I used a road feeder to put the deer where I want them.

if you are going in for a morning hunt do you run your road feeder on your way in?

Absolutely. If they deer know what the sound of the road feeder is they will come from great distances when they hear it. As long as you do not hunt from a vehicle or shoot at them from a vehicle they will come to it if they can hear it or if they want the corn. Nothing is better in the rut to drag bucks to your area than to have does walking to you. Traveling bucks will cut a doe scent trail and walk the same path as she did. All of this is only good if the deer have been fed for some time using a road feeder. I can put out corn in the mornings before daylight and have deer on it before I can park and walk to get in the blind sometimes.

That's true for me as well. I run a feeder year round more as a means to provide supplemental food. I also have specific areas that I like to use hand thrown corn to sweeten them up. And most of these are stand sites that are near travel routes back in woods where feeder maintenance would be much more difficult.

I'm gonna go with both. Last year I hunted the feeder and got my buck. My dad was was gonna hunt 3 days after I got out of there, so I threw 100# on the ground all over our kill zone. When he went he saw the most action that we had ever seen out there. I can't say that corning the ground was the reason, but I gotta imagine it couldn't hurt.

I do both. When corning the roads, I just hang a bag out the window of the truck and cut a small slit in the bag. No need to over think these kinds of things.

Both work - don't worry about human scent on corn.

I prefer and tend to have better results putting it out by hand, especially for bucks. As stated above, the main benefit to hand corning is allowing specific placement and the relative ease of trying different spots.

I do both, but I hunt over the hand corn.
Now, on a different note, if we have a solid acorn crop, I will hunt over those instead and not use corn till later in the season.

Earlier this year there were six deer standing on top of our septic system at the farm house, can't believe human scent meant anything or frightened them.

Hunted without any type of feeder for over 25 years, just hunted drainages, creek beds, and travel areas. Never felt like corn was necessary for mature bucks. Having hunted around feeders the past 5-6 yrs (due to losing access to the prior ranch because my buddy died), I look at feeders as more of a site for does and young bucks to visit. Can't say I've had any mature bucks actually under the feeder during daylight but if you watch the woods and lanes close by, you will find the older bucks staying just outside of the feeder checking for does. Having said that, I have never noticed any problem with tossing corn on the ground by hand. I usually walk about 1/2 way to the feeder and start. Sometimes makes for some close shots, lol. It also helps scatter the deer out a bit rather than them being ganged up under the feeder and spooking each other.

They will go to feeders just depends on the herd

Thanks guys

Feeders to bring in the does and young bucks

I don't expect a big mature buck to come to a feeder during the day.
Nor so I want to shoot one there.

I like them up near a tree line and will really focus my efforts looking for a good buck holed up in there waiting for darkness...

I use a road feeder to stop deer crossing a clearcut or road.

That's still only using a feeder.
soo you can vote.

I hand throw corn on the game trails that lead to water when I sit up in my climber. Other than that I hunt feeders to fill the freezer. Game trails for the trophy.