Move acorns from an area where they are very plentiful to an area that does not have very many near a stand etc?
Baiting is illegal in PA. Not my cup of tea even if it was. I do my best to scout a lot and have enough killing spots that i dont have to worry about getting shots throughout the season.
move your stand, not all acorns are the same..by that i mean deer will eat under one oak and not another even thou there are piles of acorns just sometimes 30 yards away. Just my 2 cents.
I pick up acorns by the 5 gallon buckets , so my lawn mower dont do damage to my neighbors house , i consider it a safty hazzard and being a good neighbor , i then through them in the woods where they belong.......... thats all i got to say
I have an area of once bedding cover that has overgrown, I've started to hinge cut sections and will continue in the future. Each fall I plan on collecting accorns and spreading them in the area in hopes a few will sprout and I'll see oaks in the distant future. I don't know if it will work or not, but I feel it's worth trying. Worst case I feed a few squirrels and end up with bedding cover once again.
I collect some and boil them to soften them and then grind them and use this as a cover scent. Be sure to freeze what you are not using.
I took em out of my yard and had a five gallon bucketfull i put them by my stand in a pure pine forest and came back the next week and nothing ate em.
