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    Senior Member mrbb's Avatar
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    well, that is very odd for corn to not be eaten up on you
    are there any other critters eating the corn, do you have a trail cam over the corn??
    as if noting is eating the corn, it might be BAD corn
    next I used to hunt north of Athens(10+ yrs) and I do know a lot of Amish live and hunt them areas, and they been known to kill a few deer out of season and a bunch in season
    if it was me, I would be contacting my local game warden, could be some sort of illness killing local herd of deer, or some sevcere poaching going on
    corn will 99.9% of the time attract animals in a few days, and most deer will at least check it out
    going from average numbers/pic's to Zero, is very odd, and would have me alarmed too!
    different food sources can change patterens as well as people wandering about, but if it was people you would be getting pic's of them on cam
    could you maybe have a bad camera??
    they do go bad, in summer's heat the one's that work off heat, can maybe not trigger if too warm out?

    but deer that used to luive and wander your lands should still do so ubnless a major reason to stay off
    call your warden and ask? maybe he know's something??
    Good luck and let us know

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    Have you tried moving your camera's around to different locations on the property? Maybe something has changed with the land, ie the tree's falling, or like others said neighbors property and the deer have had to change their travel corridors. That's pretty weird though for them to just up and move out.

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    Are dogs or coyotes roaming the property? Trees shouldn't make them disappear but I would cut them up so the trails can be used again. There is so much for deer to eat ths year, hopefully they just have preferred food elsewhere. Very weird though, I'd be very concerned.

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    Yes, we had one camera facing a trophy rock within 15 yards of feeder, and another on other side of property that has also yet to receive a single picture of a deer. So far, just tons of pictures of coons (cams are working).. Land has never had an abundance of deer, but as stated earlier, for whatever reason bucks seem to cruise through every so often.. 0 pictures in 4 weeks just doesn't make sense..Click image for larger version. 

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    well again there have been out breaks of sicknes that can kill a local heard off, so again talk to the local game warden, he might be your best bet

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