Well I've been hunting the same land for 15 years and have a really good idea of their normal travel routes. But I work cameras from July 4th till Sept 25ish and get an inventory of which areas have the best deer and hunt those areas. I mainly hunt from lock ons very high up around edges of thickets watching trails. Since deer are primarily nocturnal I hardly ever see 4 yr olds but when I do it's a close up shot of 125 yds or less which makes for an easy shot.

I agree with the idea that corn makes them more nocturnal. But we never kill many bucks prerut so I'm not as strong opponent to it as some. I'm not excited about the potential increase in pressure if we allow corn on our club


I think once the rut kicks in they will make mistakes after does not after food. So my opinion is that it doesn't help or hurt things. Prerut it might hurt a little but we never kill any prerut anyway