I’m just now about to put a feeder out as the acorns stop falling. I’m not gonna put it in the food plot for a couple reasons…..1) I don’t want the deer to wear out an area in my plot where I’m trying to build soil and grow grains. I’ve only got two acres to do that in and I don’t want an eighth to a quarter acre circle of it to beat down to dirt…….2) and the second reason is because I’m gonna strategically place my feeder. I’ve found that wise old bucks during the rut will stay back in the cover and watch the does as long as they can still see them and keep tabs on them. When the does get out of their sight though is when they get antsy and commit mistakes. If I put the feeder in the middle of my field they’ll just stay down in the woods/cover until after dark. If I place it up in the front of my property though and draw the does up there where the old bucks lose contact with them….it’ll hopefully make them have to come out of the cover and expose themselves.