I walked one of my properties in IL for a few hours on Saturday and I couldn't find a fresh acorn to save my life. I'm sure there's some trees dropping somewhere around here, I just couldn't find them. Which probably explains why I couldn't find any deer either.
In Wisconsin, near Black River Falls, the acorn drop started slow about a month ago. Now I've got acorns all over the place. Quite a few spots it's like walking on marbles. Red and white oak acorns alike. I haven't seen it like this here since 2011.
I know that feeling...it's been very dry and hot and they just don't move much..and there are no acorns that I can find on the 7ooo acres that I hunt! acorns are like women...You want em, but not too many at one time...LOL! at least at my age I don't
Hmm, I believe it's the other way around? [/QUOTE] Not at all. Burr oaks are in the white oak family, but they are a different tree. Bark, leaves, and acorns all look very different. The red oaks in my area (Montgomery county, SE Pa) are dropping like crazy! I'm talking almost every one I've seen. The "white oaks" are doing almost nothing. Again, this is in my area, it might be very different somewhere else.
Ok early in. Here in MN, I don't recall ever seeing reds drop before whites ( Burr)? Heck, there are still some types of berries hanging on here.
Heavy acorn crop last year here in central MN not so much this year, the whites do drop earlier as do the burrs, reds later typically. Seems I get bumper crops every other year no matter the type of oak.
so what are you guys going to key in on if you got no acorns...other than planted food plots and ag crops.. I mean if those aren't available.
i hunt all private land but they are big woods. Sota, what are they eating in your area when there are no acorns?
I do not hunt early season, I continue to feed. The deer get apples and pumpkins and deer feed. I fence off my food plot and will pull the feed and pull the fence off the plot 10 days before I hunt. I get about 2 weeks before the plot is down to dirt. It draws the does and fawns and they draw the bucks out of the gated community that butts up to my property.
Works pretty good most years on my two biggest bucks I sat a total of 6 times. My biggest buck my hunting season lasted and hour and a half. Timing is everything. The does are used to me walking out to feed I intentionally leave scent every day that I am home, plus living where you hunt is a huge advantage every trip down the driveway is a scouting trip.
