re: How to get deer to move during daylight?

I feel like cameras are misused. People put cameras out over food, see the deer eating the food, then double up on food and hunt twice as hard, with the same results. Deer eating between the hours of 7pm-4am.

Sure, some will catch some deer slipping, but are you just looking at the pictures and praying for your shot at a big one or are you studying the film?

What I have learned is that when I put food out, my harvest number declined but my camera was flooded with deer pictures. Nothing is more frustrating that deer on camera but none during hunting hours. Then one week I heard a neighbor said that ever since he ran out of corn, he is starting to see deer... So it got me to thinking.

Deer seem to master situational awareness. They survive by their senses. It probably doesn't take them long to figure out Daylight + unnatural food source = He Gone!

I started moving the majority of cameras away from the food and my stand all together. I placed them about 100yds away from my stand in random locations and was shocked at what I found. Deer were in the area of my stand but not at my stand until after dark, then they made they're way to the food.

I found the deer would basically pre-stage around my stand but not come to it till after dark. I removed the food (after failing at heading them off) and my numbers immediately went up.

I believe that I am now catching them (mostly doe's and yearlings) pre-staging someone else's food.

Bucks are dumb AF when in rut. If you can trick the Doe's to feel comfortable where you have a stand, your in business. I've never seen a deer feeding that wasn't as nervous as a room full of roaches when the lights are cut on.