In a short time archery season will kick off. Shortly after that we will see the mast crop to start producing (the properties I hunt look to have a plentiful amount this year as always). Once the acorns start dropping, typically deer fade from showing face in the fields with as much regularity. Knowing this, once the mast crop starts dropping how do you change your approach to increase your likelihood of putting a mature whitetail on the ground? Where do you hang?
The answer somewhat pertains to how I responded to your beans question. Come early October when the acorns really start to drop that's one of my favorite places to hunt. If you can find a good area with a heavy concentration of sign and acorns you can hunt it pretty much the same as an ag field in the evenings. Once nice thing about acorns is that if you find them back in the woods a good ways near bedding cover often times you can find bucks up on their feet feeding in daylight, whereas they won't enter an ag field until night. IMO it's a great place for mock scrapes and some light rattling during Mid to late October. I believe that many hunters understimate the power of a good acorn crop and focus too much on ag fields.
My white oaks are loaded this year, not so much for the red oaks. I have one stand hung in the middle of a bunch of white oaks and might set another one this weekend.
Hunt the ones that are dropping. Typically they won't all drop at the same time. The drier ridges and hillsides will drop first and the trees in the bottoms and most firtile soils will hang on the longest. I've also heard that fertilizing trees will make those acorns the most preferred by the deer. But I'm not so sure about that one. It's a little late for that anyhow.
If you can hunt trails between beds and wite oak acorns without spooking animals that's the place to be.watch the wind!
