pour a gallon of apple juice in the water bucket with the water.
just fill a feed trough with corn and wait.
Are you actually trying to draw them onto the 2.5 acres, or just within gun range of that? Either way, need something to lure them in. Myself, I don't buy anything that they have at Bass Pro, WalMart, or Cabelas that comes in a camo bag, or has an enticing name... i.e. c'mere deer, acorn rage, deer cane, etc. Go down to co-op and get you some sweet feed, corn, creep feed, cotton seed hulls, whatever. Get it in a man size 50lb bag, and not a 5lb city slicker sack. Feed is feed is feed. That deer doesn't care if it is deercane that costs $40 for 50lbs or if it is sweet feed that is $9/50 lbs. I'm sure there will be some differing opinions on that, just don't get caught up on the cool pictures of big deer on the sack. Brown 50 lb sack of real feed will pull in as much as the foo-foo stuff.
If the deer are already on the land and using it why not just setup your stand near their trails and save yourself the time/expense of buying feeders?
Alternately you could make a few cheap PVC feeders to try to lure them near your stand placement.
I didn't have to much luck with turnips and radishes.. I grew about a half acre of them last year and never saw sign of a deer even in the field. But I did manage to grow some monsters!
No one has mentioned Rice Bran yet, Geeeze what's wrong with you peope. Lol
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