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Sounds like a productive scout. Although I am unfamiliar with the Blackjack oak, I would guess it should be a lot like or belong to the White oak family. I generally clump oaks into two categories, the reds and the whites. Generally speaking, reds will be less favored by deer since they have more tannins and are bitter until the acorns have had a chance to lay out on the ground and get bleached out by the rain and sun. Then the deer will eat them. White oak acorns will be preferred as soon as they hit the ground as long as they are not wormy. The last few years our white oaks have not done well or have been wormy. If they only have reds to eat, they often times won't be too choosy.I walked a WMA that’s mostly pine today and noticed lots of red oaks and blackjack oaks along the edges between a section of dense, young pine and older pine with some hardwoods mixed in. It was my first time coming across a blackjack oak - are those worth keeping tabs on?
It was 98F out today and I bumped two deer - one big one about 30yards away from me as I cut into an old hardwood stand in a corner of the WMA. Good intel.
Hunting hot feed trees is my favorite way to hunt deer.