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You find the yellow ones  On a serious note. Find the whiteoaks that are dropping. They'll hit them first.
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Yep, just a matter of which the prefer. Around here its find the pin oaks for some reason, they'll eat those before they eat a live oak...
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rake the woods clean, put them in a BIG pile by your stand. wouldn't hurt to have water there too for em, I always get thirsty when I eat.
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i'll pay YOU $25 an hour to do it. and haul them to my stands. Good thing is I am the only hunter on the property and no one else has hunted it in 14 years. The deer see people riding horses all year and have no fear of humans. when i took these pics today I had a 6 point come out of the woods and walk to within 40 yards of my truck and watch me change boots.
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If you don't mind baiting, put out some juicy apples.
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rake the woods clean, put them in a BIG pile by your stand. wouldn't hurt to have water there too for em, I always get thirsty when I eat. haha! Some might consider this baiting. I'd consider it nature helping you hunt!
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Yep, just a matter of which the prefer. Around here its find the pin oaks for some reason, they'll eat those before they eat a live oak... That's odd Jeff. Around here pin oaks are #2. Red oak is first then pin oak then post oak then blackjack. No live oak here. Red oaks got hit hard by the drouth. Lot of them dead.
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We had acorns like that last year. This year we have NO acorns. I'll take lots of acorns over the alternative any day.
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Great problem to have...good luck
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Sit in an area where they are dropping and drop little pebbles onto the ground from your stand so that the deer hear it. You would be suprised how quickly deer key into an area of dropping acorns and will walk over acorns that have been on the ground to get to them.
First discovered this while bowhunting a white oak flat that only some of the trees were dropping. I sat and watched deer feed under one that was dropping for a few hours that was about 200 yards away. I grabbed some acorns in the tree I was sitting and started dropping them and after a while a couple of does fed over to my tree. Since then I've been able to repeat it.
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So ringworm,
You got tons of acorns, must be a low deer density area. If we had a place like that here in So. AR you'd get trampled by deer coming to it.
BTW What model Steyr you shooting?
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you found where they eat.....now...find where they sleep.....
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So ringworm,
You got tons of acorns, must be a low deer density area. If we had a place like that here in So. AR you'd get trampled by deer coming to it.
BTW What model Steyr you shooting? We had a mast crop in SW Arkansas like that once ,years ago. Next year none. That none year I squirrel hunted and found a single pin oak that had tiny acorns on it. Over the next week I kill my limit of squirrels from that tree every day.
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Sit in an area where they are dropping and drop little pebbles onto the ground from your stand so that the deer hear it. You would be suprised how quickly deer key into an area of dropping acorns and will walk over acorns that have been on the ground to get to them.
First discovered this while bowhunting a white oak flat that only some of the trees were dropping. I sat and watched deer feed under one that was dropping for a few hours that was about 200 yards away. I grabbed some acorns in the tree I was sitting and started dropping them and after a while a couple of does fed over to my tree. Since then I've been able to repeat it. Never thought to throw the acorn(great idea) but I've seen them move from acorns that have already fallen, to trees where the acorns are actively falling.
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Its been many years since I've seen a mast crop like that. Next year might be very poor if yours follows my experience.
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We have the same problem with beech nuts this year, the area I hunt in the Adirondacks is about a ten square mile patch of beech nuts and every tree is loaded with them. The deer do not have to move out of their bed to get a full belly. I'll swap you some beech nuts of acorns.
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i'll pay YOU $25 an hour to do it. and haul them to my stands. Good thing is I am the only hunter on the property and no one else has hunted it in 14 years. The deer see people riding horses all year and have no fear of humans. when i took these pics today I had a 6 point come out of the woods and walk to within 40 yards of my truck and watch me change boots. You know, what's really funny about that is in Alabama that would be against the law to rake them and place them under your tree. Crazy laws we have here. Good luck with patterning, I'm faced with the same thing. Huge acorn crop.
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We have the same problem with beech nuts this year, the area I hunt in the Adirondacks is about a ten square mile patch of beech nuts and every tree is loaded with them. The deer do not have to move out of their bed to get a full belly. I'll swap you some beech nuts of acorns. Would if I could. Love to hunt squirrel in beech trees. The limbs moving like the tree is alive. Clear cutting and replanting in Pine has done away with most of the beech(never plentiful) and much of the oaks.
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We have the same problem with beech nuts this year, the area I hunt in the Adirondacks is about a ten square mile patch of beech nuts and every tree is loaded with them. The deer do not have to move out of their bed to get a full belly. I'll swap you some beech nuts of acorns. Would if I could. Love to hunt squirrel in beech trees. The limbs moving like the tree is alive. Clear cutting and replanting in Pine has done away with most of the beech(never plentiful) and much of the oaks. Oddly enough I haven't seen one gray squirrel, only red squirrels and chipmunks.
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