IMHO I would leave the pile alone, a week is plenty of time for them to find it but I've had them shy away for a while before. They were comfortable coming and going where it was before they'll get that way here too. I've followed this thread for a while waiting on your pay off, don't let us down lol. Has your stand come yet? I would try to get closer to the bedding area or find where the bucks staging area may be. I've always heard big deer didn't get big by being dumb. I think big deer usually know that a random pile of corn is not natural in the woods along with all the scent and noise it takes to put the corn there. That's why they get within seeing distance of it, downwind of it or where they can hear what's going on and wait until after dark to come in. If you can move just a little bit you might be able to see where this is for your deer. Staging areas have worked well for me in the past near clover/hay fields. Also temps have changed and its possible another more desirable food source is available now. I guess what I would try, I and try being the operative words, you do what you want, is to move towards the suspected bedding area and wait in a natural funnel for him. It's possible that he alternates based on wind direction and which bedding will give him the advantage. Maybe I am giving deer too much credit but I swear a deer did that to me a couple years ago and perhaps it was just dumb luck and perhaps he was just a genius who knows. The only times I saw him were on days the wind shifted and he would come through a thicket about 100 yds wide and managed to stay behind brush or just out of bow range but during gun season he slipped up.
