I think that you should leave well enough alone and don't over bait that area. The minerial block & deer caine should do the trick. If you plan on using this stand in the afternoon maybe the acorns, but make sure your using rubber gloves.
If you plan on hunting this stand in the moring, the deer are most likey coming from feeding all night and headed for the safty of the beding area and not want to feed. Are the pine trees big enough to put your stand in? If they are try that, they will give you more back ground cover and also mask your scent better. Are you gun hunting or bow hunting?
Hope this helped & good luck...

I agree - leave well enough alone, especially if you're sure that this trail is near and leads to a bedding area. If they're using it already, you don't have to attract them, and too many "improvements" may spook them into finding/using a different trail.

If you want to bait I would go with C followed by eventually by D, but I don't like messing with bedding areas. I always feel that as long as a deer feels his bed is safe, he may change his pattern but he'll stick around. If his bed gets compromised, he'll leave the area altogether.

My 2cents...

yeah it isn't a good idea to set up near or in the bedding area..

BTW, i hunt with a bow, shotgun and possibly a rifel this year, my dad may introduce me into muzzleloading..

Well the deer have been feeding on the corn lately, but never quite touched the mineral block or anything else...

neway, thanks for the advice!

good luck this season!

God bless

12 gauge,
It is illegal to bait deer in Virginia. Before you post you idiotic strategies on a website I would check the game laws in your state. Your father should have taught you better ethics, unless he is a poacher.

yeah i know it is illegal to bait in virginia, what we are doing is setting out corn and such to draw them in and keep them in the area..

Once we get them in the general area, then we will start to hunt it as soon as we get the house built, i repeat we are baiting them in to draw them into the area..

my father is not a poacher! I can gurantee you that now...

Basically what we are doing, i am not sure if i posted this yet or not, is we are managing out our property, every little spike and old doe, we are getting rid of...We are leaving the big bucks, and the young does and such..

Anyway, good luck hunting and god bless

wow sounds like a lot of activity I agree with leaving well enough alone. In minnesota we can't bait for deer but we can use feeders up untill 2 weeks be fore opener a mineral block is not considered bait here so we can leave it out all year. And what is deer cocaine?

Deer cocaine is a liquid, in which deer love, it comes in several scents, acorn, corn, walnut, etc.

Deer love it, you pour it onto the ground and the deer dig up the soil and eat the stuff, it is really attractive and very nutritious to them...

Good luck!

god bless

First of all, you do not need to quote everything that typed in the previous post in your reply. we can read the responses as we scroll through the thread.

What you are doing is called BAITING. Putting corn and mineral blocks out, which is illegal in Virginia, to draw deer into the area is baiting.

Where is your farm in Orange County?