Back in June I put a food plot and a PVC gravity feeder with corn up on the hill behind my house right at the edge of the woods, it's about 150 yards away. The deer were in it right away and we had a lot of fun watching the different groups come in and feed, screw around and play......surpriseing how much they liked to eat milkweed back in the summer.....they were stacking up like airplanes at an airport, one group would move out and another would move in and they were there every morning and every night, back in Sep before the time change sometimes as early as 400 sometimes....mostly does but some small groups of young bucks and spikes. I bow hunted it but never took anything, was waiting for the pre rut or rut and a nice buck....so finally one evening the last week of Oct a nice 8 pointer came in by himself and I took him. I haven't hunted it since then but shortly after that the activity seem to really drop off, now I don't see any does but might see a lone spike or 4 pointer. I don't think the pattern change is due to me taking the 8 pointer or over hunting it. I thought they might be hitting the acorns somewhere else but the crop seems low this year. I live in Maryland and it's been warmer than usual so maybe that's a factor. But I can tell they're still hitting the corn at night and the rut is on so if a dominate buck has taken over these herds of does are they going to adapt to his patterns...is that why they're only coming in a night now, way after dark?