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For over two weeks now our oaks have been dropping acorns like wildfire. Most of my mature whites are/were loaded! I for one am glad to see the oaks dropping early in my neck of the Virginia woods as we are almost two weeks from the start of any deer season. I hope the nuts are all but gone by late October! How is the mast crop elsewhere?
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Mast crop is spotty in my immediate area. We had a warm spell in March and the oaks blossomed early and got hit by hard frosts later on.
We have bagged some wild turkeys this past week and all but one had acorns in their crop. If turkeys are finding acorns you can bet the deer are too.
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Central Va has thousands of them this year!
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Its looking like a fairly heavy crop up here, I rather think that very good and very poor are bad for hunting, I would rather have spotty..find the spot... find the deer
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heavy here in northern rockingham county
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fulksrun,raining them here to. most deer have already moved up in the shenandoah national park. may be hard hunting along the park this year with all those acorns.
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Good crop here in OK, especially with the drought conditions of the last 2 years. Started falling 7-10 days ago...
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Loaded in Martin and Okeechobee County, FL. Some have fallen , some still the size of a pea. Gonna be a strong crop from now til January. Too bad my hunting ground has a foot of water standing in most places :-(
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Good acorn crop in upstate of SC, and they dropped 'em early, too. Most of them are fallen and glad we have our food plots planted and doing well. A few weeks from now when the acorns are gone they'll be deer magnets.
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Anybody hear about the crop in Southeast Ohio?.............Hb
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Here where I hunt in E TN the chestnut oaks seemed to dropping pretty good right now...not alot of white oaks on my place
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I sometimes can't decide whether I love or hate a healthy hard mast.
Either way, I bet Jtown will have his ass parked like Sittin Bull over his turnip green patch.
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I sometimes can't decide whether I love or hate a healthy hard mast.
Either way, I bet Jtown will have his ass parked like Sittin Bull over his turnip green patch. To much is alot worse then to little to me...it really does limit how much deer need to travel to stay fed... I reckon for folks that hunt behind a tractor it may not make much difference.... I guess the biggest plus is overall herd health during heavy mast years.
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yea none coming into my field.. but thats ok.. giving the 7 acres of clover a chance to grow for once..:)
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Like a shag carpet. Dang things are thick as heck.
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Like a shag carpet. Dang things are thick as heck. How it is at my place in Montgomery Co. Very glad they are dropping early. Hope they are mostly gone by mz season.
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bunch of them dropping in east tn.
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I'm from Radford area but live in Charlotte NC now. Haven't been back to check but I know where I'm hunting anyway. Same places for years. Heavy acorns are sometimes good, sometimes not. More important to put the time in
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I sometimes can't decide whether I love or hate a healthy hard mast.
Either way, I bet Jtown will have his ass parked like Sittin Bull over his turnip green patch. sitting bull
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I sometimes can't decide whether I love or hate a healthy hard mast.
Either way, I bet Jtown will have his ass parked like Sittin Bull over his turnip green patch. Actually that will be for later in season. This ass hole told me about hunting near honey locust trees and how the deer love the honey locust pods. That ass hole was right! Thanks Stovepipe where ever you are.
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