We've had the same drought, but it's moderated. Coming back now, though, considered a "mild" drought condition. Corpus is REALLY hurtin', both of their primary lakes WAY low, but they're not getting water from Texana, up my way, and it's almost full. We got rains this spring, made a decent acorn crop, and the feeder doesn't work well in good years as acorns are much better for the deer than corn. Corn is candy to them. All the statements above about deer not coming to the feeder in daylight are pretty true where there's hunting pressure and there is around my place since it's a collection of small tracts that are hunted. I have killed more deer away from the feeder than at it, though, and oft times it was rut that brought 'em along, not corn. They were chasing doe.
Corn REALLY works for pigs, but they're nocturnal by nature and I'm not. So, I tend to let my trap to the pig hunting. LOL At my new place, I've just bought a proximity sensor and I'm going to bait a spot in the woods that I can see from the back of the house, flintnapper style.
This should be interesting, pig hunting from the back porch. The woods there are infested with pigs and I had wallows in the back yard when I first went to look at this house. This just MIGHT make gardening a might difficult. Might have to buy some hog wire and a post hole digger if I'm going to have a garden. Hell, I might need an 8 ft game fence considering all the deer around there.