Too Many &^%#& Acorns

[highlow]

Should have known you would say that Joe. I'm still laughing.
Sorry to hear about your wife. Hope she makes a speedy recovery. Sure hope you'll be able to make it to Mike's for a little spot and stalk. I promise I won't shoot that piebald.

[Jakeemt]

Set your ambush points up around watering holes instead of the oak trees. Maybe a ton of acorns but, only so many water sources.

[John3]

Quit hunting the Oaks.... Hunt the edges of bedding reas and or the funnels.  Deer will cross the same areas in the same places.  Just hunt for these spots,,,

[LookMomNoSights]

Last year,  I thought the amount of acorns I had in my front yard was just total insanity.....and of course it was no different in the woods....we got red oaks EVERYWHERE!  Then, I couldn't imagine having a larger acorn crop.  Well I swear,  this year beats last year without question!  They are out of control!  If I continue to rake them off my nice front yard,  Im probably not going to have any grass left.....from all the scratching with the rake.
As far as the deer go,  I have a couple spots where they always seems to hang out,  no matter what.  These spots are also LOADED with acorns.  I hunt these spots and see deer and as with last year,  I don't suspect the acorns are going to keep them hung up so that they don't come into these spots.
I do wish I didn't have all the acorns around the house though   :rolleyes:

[Mint]

Yup, Long Island is loaded with acorns too. The lack of rain we are having makes the oaks produce. I'd rather have too many though than not enough. When there aren't any the deer stay in the corn or bed by farms that I don't have permission to hunt.

[Nantahala Nut]

Its been spotty in my area (western NC).  Last year we had acorns covering the ground. This year they only seem to be dropping from red oaks around 3700 ft in elevation.  I found a good stand of oaks that were dropping but the deer weren't hitting them at all.  

I have the "problem" of too much public land for the deer to roam.  We have low deer numbers, <15 per sq mile, and millions upon millions of acres of undisturbed forest. Yesterday I switched my strategy to hunting bedding areas and thicker stuff leading out of them and have started seeing more deer. Beds are tough to hunt but you should have much higher chance of seeing them.

[Hoyt]

Plenty of acorns back where I hunt..just not the right kind. This is the first yr I can remember around here that I haven't found the first White Oak acorn.

Quiet a few Reds and that's what the deer are eating.

Sure would like to find a few White Oaks..they'd be hot.

[bamboo]

no deer is truly safe when you're in the woods dave!!stay after them!!---we are going to miss joe--but rumor has it he's covered up with deer over there in highland!!

[akaboomer]

Last year was the biggest acorn crop I have ever seen. We average killing 13 deer a year on my lease, last year we killed 3.
   
this is what it was still like in February.

This year, no acorns and we have already killed 5.

Chris

[Charlie3]

We have alot where I am. Several metal roofs on my street and I hear 'pop' 'pop' all day.

[jmar595]

I had the fortune of hunting my nieces husbands place in north eastern Oklahoma. It was loaded with acorn like this. It would be much easier finding sign after a little while though.

[threeundr]

Originally posted by John3:
Quit hunting the Oaks.... Hunt the edges of bedding reas and or the funnels.  Deer will cross the same areas in the same places.  Just hunt for these spots,,,

I am going to have to agree with John. We have been without rain here where I live in NE Texas since June. Before that we had record amounts of rain early in the year. Consequently, we don't have any acorns this year. I was hunting last weekend in an oak grove that I have traditionally hunted in the past, when I noticed about 4 does feeding along a fence line that ran from some real thick paper company land, all the way up to a county road that has a thick stand of timber on the other side. They were about 100 yards away with no good way to approach them, without alerting them to my presence. The deer were browsing on the leaves of the small bushes that were growing on the fence line. Later that morning after they left the area to go bed down for the day, I went to investigate. Turns out, that fence line is the route that they use between bedding areas. I know where I will be hunting now.    

[hawkeye n pa]

I've never seen so many acorns at least that I can remember.  Kind of afraid what it's going to do for the tick population. They are already bad here.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

It amazes me how quickly a deer will change its pattern due to a changing food source.  Keep after them Dave, good luck.

[Brock]

Yep, acorns are littering floor like someone took a truck and spread a layer on purpose...everywhere.