Should I just corn roads?

[ostey22]

My family and close friends have been on the same lease for some time now, I'd say 90% of bucks killed were on corned roads through out the years
We have a pretty good road system on our place and we run about 8 feeders, all blinds/feeders are set up on roads.
We all have road feeders on our trucks/utv's, I was thinking maybe we go light on feeding our feeders and strictly feeding roads at some places? It might save some time and corn. There's been times our camera show hardly anything at the feeder but once the road is corned, the road is solid deer. What's say you GS?

[solocam_aggie]

I like the idea. Being mainly a bow hunter, corning roads wont do much good for me. But another guy on our lease would have his feeders spin only a few seconds, and corn the roads when he hunted. He always saw the most deer, bucks included.

[Catfish270]

I have had good luck with hand corn/corn roads as opposed to spincast feeders. A big downside is if you are not there often to keep corn on the roads then it can be hard to hold them in the area.

[stickemhard3]

I have a feeder up and then corn 2 roads next to it. I have does at the feeder quite often but the bucks all cross the roads and then stop for the hand corn. It would be stand specific for me bc another spot i have hunts completely different.

[southpaw]

What ever works!

[Patton]

I think corned roads are fairly similar to handcorn spots; just in a mass amount. And in my opinion, bucks (mature bucks in particular) are more likely to eat hand corn/road corn than at a feeder.

[Diamond07]

Growing up on my grandparents place in south Texas we would always corn the roads while hunting the blinds and that's where the deer would feed. We had a feeder at each setup but they would choose the road over the feeder every time

[critter69]

That is exactly how we do it for javelina and pigs when we come down there. We bow hunt them only and sit far down the road, down wind of course. And glass the roads, set up at an intersection so we can watch several at a time. Then when we see them come out we stalk them. But the majority of our corn gets eaten by deer. Tons of deer come out on it. We have to shoe them off or they will vacuum it right up. Them and turkey's. We sit by a few feeders also but really never see any thing at them.

[Bowtech2004]

We corn row at all the stands, not necessarily roads but maybe just a little gap, an an alley, or just a small area. We do it 1st thing when we come in the gate and the last thing we do before we leave. 99 percent of the time the deer will eat all the corn row before they move to the feeder. We do the same spots every year and I swear the deer remember the sound of my ol beat up ranger and that all-seasons road feeder slinging. They are back on it quick. I'm a huge believer in Corn Rows... they just flat out work.

[brianlg31]

I'm doing it for the first time this year. I've noticed this weekend that the does hit the roads and the bucks stayed at the feeders. But I've always had more bucks at the feeder. In fact they will run the does off. I was figuring that's why the hit the road corn. In fact I sat Friday and Saturday all day and had does on the road all day eating.


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[Artos]

I killed my biggest 2 deer in areas road corned routinely...it actually works well if you and your hunting buddies will sprinkle the the area consistently.

[txfireguy2003]

Bought a road feeder this weekend and rigged it up on my jeep. First outing with it, I drove down a road slinging corn, came to an intersection and turned right to feed a field that I call the killing field. Once the field had a few lines of corn on it, I turned and went back the way I came, and there were already deer on the first road as I passed by it. I finished throwing corn down and parked to climb into my perch up on top of a big hill, and made it half way up the hill, turned around and had deer feeding both roads and the killing field, within 4-5 minutes of me throwing it down.

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[kumathebear]

My TBH son, daughter-in-law and one of our other lease members spent the last 4 days at their feeders hunting out of their bow stands. Lord knows I wish the body would meld with the brain and I would have been in the same setup. But now, my hunts are sitting in the ranger glassing a sendero that offers up to 500 yard shots, IF I would take them. So, like txfireguy, we make a run with the road feeder then I sit starting around 4pm till legal shooting hours are done...yep, "evil" rifle hunter these days. So every day for 4 continuous days, I was in the Ranger and saw deer every morning and evening. Throw in a "long range yote and bobcat" plus numerous coveys of Bob Whites...well, I loved it.

This past Saturday evening after a long rain the night before and AMPLE mud...I counted 12 does, 2 spikes and a great young 10 point. All were within my designated range, less than 200 yards and I passed on all of them. I judged the 10 pt about 2-3 years old and thought what he could be next year? Let him spread the juice for another year then stamp out his testosterone if he turns out to be what I think he can be.

At least for me in the Robert Lee area, corning senderos produces more game than the stands and feeders do. Of course, I get questioned as to why I did not take a shot?? Well, us old farts have seen and taken our share of critters...not ashamed to say I get just about the same excitement just seeing them as shooting them...unless that one "trophy" shows up the rest of this year or next year? All bets are off...lol

[M16]

We took all the timed corn feeders off our South Texas ranch four years ago. Haven't missed them one bit. Other than crap going wrong with them and the time and expense of filling them. We strictly use road feeders. They work fine even though it may be two weeks since the last feeding. This year we quit using corn and have gone to feeding protein only. It's working better than corn. We still will use free choice protein feeders during the year but will most likely never ever go back to timed corn feeders.

[SmTx]

If I was down enough I would remove all of my timed feeders except for one that isn't on a sendero and strictly road corn feed.

I can dump a 5 gallon bucket down the sendero and keep deer for hours. Or have them come to the feeder, no matter how much corn is thrown, and keep them for 20 minutes or so.