Deer Hunting Feeder

As we all know deer season has been here and now the rut has finally started.  The thing every hunter waits for when deer season starts.  For those who have no clue of what the "rut" is, it is when the big bucks start chasing the does because they want to mate.  But anyways, I have been hunting without a feeder and just throwing my corn on the ground.  But this can be a waste, because depended on the deer in your area they might eat it in a couple days.  In my case I was throwing corn down but only a little at a time with, this meant that I was have to travel back down there every two days to through more feed out.  So I had this feeder I built a while back, its a gravity feeder, you can make these yourself and if you want to learn just Google it, there are a bunch of nice tutorials out there, or I might post a blog one day going through it step by step.  One thing I do recommend is that, some people will tell you to go with a big 6 in PVC pipe, which are very costly, I would definitely recommend going with a smaller tube, because of the price and its not going to make much of a difference.  Where my problem was, is that I was getting tired of traveling down to my stand everyday putting out corn and this way you can put abundance of feed out there and not have to worry about refilling it but maybe once a week depending on the population of deer in your area.  So I went out to my tree stand and set my feeder about 20 ft. away up against a tree and filled it up with corn, the "apple scented kind" I like it a lot.  Here's my advice on this, if you are a big rifle hunter and you decide after the season has stated that you want to put a feeder out whether a gravity feeder or any other types of feeders you can buy, put the feeder out there two weeks prior to the beginning of rifle season.  Once you do that don't hunt it because there's no reason to because the deer will not come around, because the feeder will scare them off because there not accustomed to it.  But after about two week they will get used to seeing it out there and take the chance to eat out of it and when they see it doesn't hurt them, they will be back everyday.  So once you set up the feeder keep a check on it every couple days.  Once you start noticing feed is being eat then chances are they are accustomed to it.  If you are having trouble and this is not working for you, there's another suggestion I can make to possibly help.  If you was laying corn on the ground and you want to set up a feeder and the steps above do not work for you, then what I would do and I guarantee it will work is, to set up the feeder and fill it up with feed, but place the feeder about 10 feet away from where you have been laying your corn.  Then keep throwing out corn in the same spot too, so the deer will still come to that spot.  The last thing would be to make a corn trail to the feeder along with the corn pile and see if that doesn't work.  But after all the techniques I just mentioned that I use my self, I am positive that you will see good results from it.