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set up over some secluded white oaks

Pretty area


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Any white oak acorns dropping there yet? I'm in SE Texas, very few dropping but they are loaded.
 
they are scarce here this year but yes they are dropping
 
DaveT1963 said:
they are scarce here this year but yes they are dropping
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I don’t have any good white oak stands this year. Several patches of reds, but no whites.


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acorns are limited this year in N Texas. Deer movement has been very slow so far. 8 hunts 6 deer seen zero bucks. think it's just too hot?
 
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acorns are limited this year in N Texas. Deer movement has been very slow so far. 8 hunts 6 deer seen zero bucks. think it's just too hot?
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Slow in MS as well. 6 hunts, 7 deer seen, 0 bucks. I'm going with too hot as well. Hopefully we are about to get a little relief with this coming front.
 
I haven’t found the first white oak acorn here in Alabama. Heard the same from my friends.


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aclawrence said:
I haven’t found the first white oak acorn here in Alabama. Heard the same from my friends.


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Same where I’m at in Alabama. Made a walk Monday morning and might have found a hand full of acorns on the whole walk. The season is set back this year.
 
The white oaks acorns in north Louisiana are few and far between right now. I’ve found a few on the ground but haven’t really seen a bunch in the trees either. Our deer have a lot of green browse in the woods so they don’t have to go far and aren’t moving much in the daylight heat.
 
Where I did find a few acorns of different species there was always fresh droppings there. That’s where I’m going to zero in on for now.


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Here in AR, Black oaks are the only producers.


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I’ve seen less movement (which is really just a fancy word for “deer” if you want to get right down to it) than what I would call “normal” as well, but I don’t attribute it to the heat, which we’ve certainly had our share. I have the benefit of being a surveyor so I get to be in the woods all day every day. This May we had an abnormal amount of rain, in fact, there was a 3 week period where I was only able to work 1 day. Then summer shows up and we continued to get good rainfall which caused an explosion of browse in the woods.

I’ve never seen the woods around here as thick with new growth as they are this year. As a result, the deer around here are NOT hurting for anything to eat and I think this is reflected in the lower numbers of deer seen for me.

The good news? Dead buck sightings on the highways have ramped up in the last week like they always do here in October so maybe the fools will start cooperating and swing by me now.
 
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