why do they move at mid-day

[offshore]

Just a thought and don't take this the wrong way but If you are feeding them at the camera locations you have pretty much trained them by now. Most will go nocturnal after they are fed for a while . Smart critters and they know they don't have to rush get the latest dropped acorns like they normally would and they know you are coming there. Where we hunt we see a lot of bucks during the last hour of daylight. There is nothing wrong with feeding them but we choose not too and rely on natural food. Feeding stations are great but if I were feeding them I would not hunt the food at all I would find out where they are coming from and cut them off way way before they get there. Most of the time they will stage until they move to the feeding station.

Here is the link for the Sonar table but you might have to fine tune it to your location.
http://www.solunarforecast.com/solunarcalendar.aspx

[weekender]

Mark, we feed them pretty much out of neccessity. With only 100 acres that is basically an L shaped strip, we can't hold any deer totally and have to rely on attracting deer off ajoining properties. All of the ajoining properties are also being "fed" by other hunters. Hunting the deer well away from the feeding stations is just not an option as most of the deer stage on other properties.
We also enjoy hunting natural food as well. We hunt the few oaks when they are dropping acorns. We just don't have an abundance of it on our lease.

[Bird Dog]

Thanks for the link, Mark

[offshore]

Weekender,
Without seeing your property feeding stations or a topo it might be a good thing next year to rearrange where the feeding stations are. Maybe centralize them more on the property and reduce the number of stations(not knowing how many you have). Then maybe you would be able to intercept deer heading to those stations way before they get there. Maybe after season we could get together and take a look.....Mark

[weekender]

thanks Mark