Going to be a great year. Lots of squirrels. Find the squirrels, find the deer. Good luck everyone.
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Going to be a great year. Lots of squirrels. Find the squirrels, find the deer. Good luck everyone.
Ours are heavy with akerns as well. Should be a great squirrel and deer season…fingers crossed
We are the opposite, got none this year , large numbers will be harvested , they literally run to the feeders right now .
The trees seem basically barren this year , we shall see ….
Baiting is illegal here but lots of violators. Heavy acorn crop drops their advantage, keeps the deer spread out.
here is this part of the world a heavy acorn crop is a disaster , these deer are known for traveling to food sources a long way at times and lots of acorns means they won't go to traditional hunting locations like green food plot fields and feeders .....Quote:
Originally Posted by MCG1
we love to see a zero acorn year once in while , makes em pattern up solid instead of wandering to and fro and standing off in the thicket all season on top of tons of groceries
Yep, every region has its own challenges, eh? Learn and adapt, both hunter and prey.
Not much in the way of acorns or any other tree nuts up this way. Even a very week year for the Mulberries. Just went out and seeded the old garden spot with four bags of flood plot mix. I need to get some bags of clover to over seed the field to give them something to eat
My mulberry trees produced once since being here. Apples dropped early. Food plot looks good, but with the acorns may not see much activity.
When the Mulberries produce heavy everything will come eat them. Deer, squirrels, skunks and the coyotes.
2 weeks ago we had a Hurricane pass by to the west of our hunt club.. I had a few of my large oaks blown over by the roots and some snapped off.. some of the acorns were on the ground a few weeks early. Our place is thick with wetlands and planted pines. The short pines have lots of browse so there is a good amount of food year round. Acorns are what put fat on our deer for winter, they will walk past corn feeders when Acorns are falling. We have mild winters but it will freeze and frost a few times killing or stunting the browse growth..
Those blowdowns make great cover but you sure hate to loose your oaks!/
Usually the timber company cut the oaks down then burn, chip or let them rot..they are in the pine tree business and oaks shade their pine trees..
Up here they are cutting the pine on state land and leaving the oak:biggrin
the tree folks that know what is up figured out long ago to leave a portion of hardwoods in place to ensure a better balance and crop of pines down the road in most places .
not many hammer oaks like they used to back in the day , learned that years ago hunting in eastern Arkansas , likely it doesn't apply everywhere though as some pine spots look to be just pines as I pass them by ...:dono
I guess bugs got into the pines on a tree farm near me. They bulldozed them into piles and burned them all. Cultivated the ground and burned the roots too. Now it's a soybean field.
I had 2 white oaks and 2 persimmons at my other house. Deer would be under them when the fruit was falling. Never got enough persimmons to make jam.
I have a white oak and a red oak in this yard with acorns starting to fall. I'll rake and bag, carry them to a wooded area as winter goes.
Lol… I like those ferns. Nice scrape.
I saw a doe near here and jumped another deer when I walked up to take the picture. This is right next to the fresh cuttings where I shot my squirrel today.
“Rubs” are typically just sign posts , bigger rubs on the same tree a few years in a row often tell the tale of a line of travel for an older buck .
Never seen does go to rubs , but have seen multiple young bucks rub the same tree before , watched 4 youngsters emerge and descend on a mesquite one at a time and the 4 of them effectively shredded that little mesquite.
A less seasoned hunter would have looked at it and thought WOW a monster buck destroyed this tree ...:Rofl
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Looks like at least the second year of rubbing that one ...:highfive
saw a power pole rubbed in Ohio, he worked on it for a couple of years. I sat in a bow stand this morning, no acorns falling.. last year they were falling good and steady. The hurricane 2 weeks ago blew some down before they were ready.. Going to another stand tomorrow, there are a couple of small persimmons dropping there
Once you find the current preferred food source, opportunities increase. Good luck.