I have a place that I'm the only one who hunts over it for the last 5 years. I have killed one good buck and shot another one but couldn't find it. I only Hunt when the wind is right for my stand north/northeast and I rarely see deer. It has food/ shelter and even two bodies of water less than 200 yards from the green field I planted and surrounded by plenty of pines and a few hardwoods. Not sure what I'm doing wrong
Any insight would be great

Deer may be watching you walk in

Do you have them there on camera at all?

I do but at sparatic times. Just recently got a picture of a good 9 point and a few does.

Also I failed to mention there are houses behind me say6-700 yards away.

How many acres? How much hunting around you?

I had 250 acres in Greene that had deer until about bow season and then they were gone until about May/ June. Year round planting, minerals, water, and virtually 0 pressure. I didn’t even set foot on it unless there was a shooter buck on it which happened twice. Eventually got tired of fighting it and let it go.

I'm guessing around 100 acres and there is another club about a mile from it

If you ain’t putting out corn, they’ll leave.

I'm corning from a feeder

Our deer have figured out the feeder deal, they lay up close to the feeders close to the time they go off to catch anything unusual going on. You will see plenty on camera but fewer when you hunt them

I have a few small tracts like that and one house around it but shot a couple last few years early in season but some places are just mainly at night eating places. Gone before daylight and back after dark. Doesn’t really hold deer and may every now and then catch a buck during rut looking come through but it’s not anything regular.

Is it a high deer density area?

Plenty of areas of Alabama and the south in general have very low deer density. You can’t kill deer that don’t exist.

100 acres is a lot of land for one person to own. But not a lot of land to control “pressure”.

I’d much rather hunt an area with large tracts around and my own small tract, versus every 40 acre parcel getting hunted. Because when lots of deer get killed, it’s not that deer get shy, it’s that they’re dead. And fewer deer to see.

I’m sure “pressure” matters, but deer aren’t geniuses. If you’re not seeing does, you probably have low deer density.

“Hunt where the deer are” is the best advice I can give, even if it means changing counties/states.

Could be your neighbors. No matter the efforts, if your neighbors are pressuring the crap out of their propert, then it will affect your small parcel just the same. I had a fantastic little place until my two neighbors changed. Things took a fast 180. It’s nothing like it used to be and I hardly set foot on it.

take the feeder out... take you about 100# and just spread it out you'll be amazed what taking the feeder out will do. some deer dont like them and will not use them

Yes. We don’t use feeders. Scatter it from a seed spreader and the deer you’ll pick up over a feeder is way more. Only exception is from deer raised using feeders.

had that happen on the club this year... put two feeders out, 2 weeks go by and nothing. finally a few doe start moving in. no bucks. took feeder out just took bag of corn in and slung it by hand. boom!! deer all over the place and several bucks as well

I put on ground and feeder to help get them used to it

Put cameras in road to see if u only ones hunting it. If you are only giving it a week - thats not long. When deer are there - will they see u leave? If so u prob need to give it 3 weeks

I like it when mine get 3-4 weeks. Buck field gettin close to that now and last 2 times i hunted big field they never saw me leave so its like unhunted

Deer always like food on ground bettr - but u prob cant go every 2-3 days to put it out so i do both

These two have the right answer IMO.

Every deer on our farm eats from a spin feeder, spikes to 150" deer. They do it daily once they are used to them. If I had to put corn on the ground I would go through 3000#s a week.

feeder has been in the same place for 3 years and every time i put corn in it i sprinkle some out. i have a pic of a buck eating from the spinner as well. Cant use a spreader bc i would have to run through my greenfield to put the corn out.
Like someone stated i may just have to move on from the spot but i enjoy it bc i have it to myself.