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If you can figure out what he's feeding on now, you can kill him once the season starts.Where I live and hunt (NE Ohio) Most deer are feeding on soybean (#1) and corn (#2) now. They'll continue feeding on beans and corn until soft mast foods(apples and wild grapes) are ready.
Our season starts at the end of September. For early season bucks, (NON-NOCTURNAL), you need to figure out his feeding/bedding routine. get yourself between them, and you should be in good shape. If he's already a NOCTURNAL buck, you may not see him again before the rut, and even then, he may leave the area in search of does. Good thing there is, for every deer that leaves, one takes his place.
You didn't mention if you planned to hunt him early (with a bow in Ohio) or if waiting for the rut was the only option. Our gun season starts just after the rut ends(unless everything starts late for some reason). You should have an advantage anytime the apple trees are dropping fruit, unless the Oak trees are dropping acorns at the same time. (NOTHING trumps acorns, bar none, if fresh acorns are on the ground, you WILL find deer closeby).
I wouldn't bother with throwing out "deer corn" unless the deer in your area have no access to crop fields. If you enhance it with some "attractants", it might be a different story (mollasses comes to mind, also anise oil is popular here), but you'll have trouble drawing deer away from a "known" food source with a pile of corn polluted with "people" scent.
And I will echo what "castnblast" said, do NOT use estrous scents early in the season. That buck knows when the does should start their estrous cycle,(I think it's called PHOTOPERIODISM), and if the timing isn't right, you'll do nothing but run him out of there...
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