Why not split your second N app in half and do a third app a month or so later. This would keep your plot green into the rut, assuming you hunt over it. My deer don't use my plots much early season, so I have pushed my planting date back to early November with an initial app of N and another before Christmas. This has worked out real well at keeping my plots palatable during the last half of the season, which coincides with the rut at my place.