What you are seeing a picture of is a simple food trough I made at the rear of our 7 acres. I feed corn and deer pellets and sweet feed mixture. Not everyday, and not hardly at all during the summer months (I have enough pets to feed here at the house). The raccoons eat most of it but the deer do stop by. If they are hungry and it is there, they will be attracted to it.
I have tried food plots around the feeder without much success, they lightly graze through it but dont really seem interested.

You are probably getting much more activity than you realize, I really nice game camera can be huge fun! (even a cheap game camera can be revealing but they are often very tempramental).

Jeff-

1 acre pond, slopes to 15ft depth. Has BG and few LMB plus a half dozen pesky sliders.
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