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Any one from New England or New York? I have seen some beech mast but Acorns are lacking so far up here.

I think the number of acorns isn't as important as the type of acorns.

Red oak acorns seem to me to be eaten last, and they're huge, which must mean the deer don't particularly cottton to their tate.

White oak acorns are the favorites of deer around here. Probably they're less acidic than red-oak. Of the varios other species, like water oak, they seem to be a second choice as well.

I haven't been in the woods this year, but my buddy killed two on Saturday with a bow. He didn't mention a lot of mast, but it could very well be.

We have virtually no acorns in NE Bama......freeze during the time the oaks were blooming got most of them I'm assuming. Teh squirrels are running around like crazy looking for a meal....and this seems to be a high population year for them too. Gonna be some hungry critters around here 'bout January.

Big crop in my area of Michigan. It is making the bow hunting more difficult this year. All of the oaks are dropping a ton of acorns. Deer aren't concentrating their feeding under just a few trees. I had four bucks almost wander under my "chosen" oak this past weekend. Al

There appears to be an average acorn crop on the 120 acres that I hunt here in the Southern Tier of NY. There are many around but not as many as last year. I have about a dozen hickory trees in my yard. On a few, the nuts are large and plentiful. The rest are not producing that well this year.

Face it, the SE is now The Great Red Clay Desert after this summer. We have some acorns from White Oak and Red Oak here north of the metropolis, but soil is very dry. Lake Lanier looks like a bath tub after some one pulled the plug. Need serious rain!

I have both red and white oak on my property here in northern NJ.
There's been a steady bombardment on my roof for about three weeks.There has generally been a pretty good crop of acorns,but nothing compared to several years we had in the mid nineties.
My kids had no trouble filling about ten of those large paper leaf sacks that were so popular back then,our property at the time was 150x150 feet,we had about thirty oaks.
Took 'em all up to deer camp and layed out about five piles.The deer didn't really seem to find them until the season was about over,but kept digging them out from under the snow all winter that year.

How far North are you? I'm just off the Delta and we have more Acorns here than I've ever seen, not only mass amounts, but the biggest ones I've ever seen.

I'm thinking this might be one of those once in 25 - 30 year Oddities, that the Banned-Tailed Pigeons alter their Migration Route, come out of the Mountains, and swing down into the lower foothills, maybe make it to the valley. They're a Kick to hunt, near imposible to get close to them in the mountains, but when they come down to lower elevations = take lots of ammo - they're deceptively fast and TOUGH to bring down!

I am 40 miles North East of Sacramento in the Foothills.
You are right on the size....definitely bigger than normal.

The last time I hunted Band Tailed Pigeons was quite a few moons ago up on the Trinity River....It was a blast but NOT easy hunting.