I hunt smaller wood lots on Pennsylvania public and recently some more mountainous areas. I tagged out for the year but I still have some doe tags I’d like to try to fill and wanted to key in on some food sources for evening sits. There’s some acorns still but they seem to be scattered and buried under leaves. For early season it’s easy to find feeding sign because there’s no leaves on the ground and easy to find a ton of white oak acorns and poop. Not sure if anyone has any tips on locating fresh feeding sign with after the foliage drops and the rut pressure picks up. I was thinking of hugging bedding or staging areas with thick cover.
My gut tells me that does won’t be running out into an open wood lot of mature oaks to eat acorns in shooting light after rut pressure from bucks and hunters but I might be able to catch some hugging the edges eating browse in thicker security cover. If anyone has any insight it would be appreciated!
My gut tells me that does won’t be running out into an open wood lot of mature oaks to eat acorns in shooting light after rut pressure from bucks and hunters but I might be able to catch some hugging the edges eating browse in thicker security cover. If anyone has any insight it would be appreciated!