Acorns! Wow!

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

And all at night..


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Yep.

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[Dale Moser]

Acorns! Wow!

My son is going huntin with his grandpa this weekend in Ok, big front coming Thursday with rain all night and temps in the 40s.[emoji15]

My son and I ran out Saturday morning and hung a gametamer in a huge oak down in a thick creek bottom. I’ve had a small ghost feeder running down there for a couple months, not much on camera but whatever. When we got down there the ground under the big oak was bare aside from acorn tops, and there are about 5 trails coming into it, looks like mostly pigs but we’ll see. Hung the stand, and corned it up good, we’ll see on Friday! They may be a little closer than I’d hoped, but that’s better than further I guess.


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[jakeb03]

We have thousands of oaks on the river that are loaded in Christoval. 95% of our mature deer have vanished since the drop. That being said, we are still seeing lots of deer on the feeders. 10 bucks and 5 doe sunday morning.

Someone please tell me how I can get a stand hung and kill my target deer from the oakmont that he is living under for days at a time without blowing him out.

Oh, and make sure I can get it done on the weekends only!

I'm with Smart on this one, just have to wait out the acorns and hope he slips up until then.

[Patton]

I'm with the crowd of hunt the acorns and I also hunt 'thousands of acres of oak trees' as well. Does it take a lot more time and patience to find the trees that are dropping heavy and being hit- no doubt. Is it harder, more time consuming, and more frustrating-definitely. If time or lease rules don't allow, yeah it's a lot harder; but to act like it's equivalent to walking on water is silly. If corn feeders weren't legal in TX, half the 'hunters' would never see a deer much less see one. Don't get me wrong, I killed a buck this season on a feeder already and with a smile on my face, but it's still possible to actually hunt via other ways besides waiting on a dinner bell to ring.

[ATI]

So, correct me if I'm wrong,

Doesn't this mean the acorns will be eaten and gone by the end of October or early November and the deer will hit the feeders more often, out of desperation?

[Dale Moser]

So, correct me if I'm wrong,

Doesn't this mean the acorns will be eaten and gone by the end of October or early November and the deer will hit the feeders more often, out of desperation?

That has not been my experience. Nor have I noticed rain or freeze having any affect on them. But we have a LOT of oak trees, of several varieties.

We shall see!


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[Smart]

So, correct me if I'm wrong,

Doesn't this mean the acorns will be eaten and gone by the end of October or early November and the deer will hit the feeders more often, out of desperation?

What we see is a good amount get bore into and start to rot with rain or whatever elements. You can pick them up and pinch them and they burst....and yes eventually feeder activity picks up after that and the good ones are eaten. Time back depends on how many dropped. But you can battle fall and winter rain growing new forbes and new green winter grass shoots as well. We have some goats that help expedite the knocking of both those back ....


But yes as a whole, we start seeing better activity after mid-late November out west.

[PondPopper]

Well after making a trip and seeing the billions of acorns on the ground, dropping, or about to drop, I will be moving to plan "B", water and trails for the next few weeks....
Good luck if your set ups are on feeders..

[ATI]

What we see is a good amount get bore into and start to rot with rain or whatever elements. You can pick them up and pinch them and they burst....and yes eventually feeder activity picks up after that and the good ones are eaten. Time back depends on how many dropped. But you can battle fall and winter rain growing new forbes and new green winter grass shoots as well. We have some goats that help expedite the knocking of both those back ....


But yes as a whole, we start seeing better activity after mid-late November out west.

That's what I thought.
It's not only the deer that eat them. a bunch of other animals eat acorns daily and come the first **** floater will wash a bunch of them into the creeks and eventually flooded timbers

I'm going to forecast a busy feeder season

[UrbanBuck]

Sure you can it just involves work, most guys just want to sit in the blind and play on their phones and wait for their named target buck to show up..... get out and hunt folks.