thedrake
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Acorns
I havent seen many this year. How bout younzes?
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SilverKype
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They started falling two days ago up on the mountain. Only on the west slope though. The ferns are practially dead on the west side but alive and well on the east. They'll be all over soon.
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thedrake
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its akerns duud
srrey duud/
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bingsbaits
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The piece of timber I am cutting has a lot of old growth oak trees. They are loaded with acorns..
"There is a pleasure in Angling that no one knows but the Angler himself". WB
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jlh42581
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Piles of them, if i dont see oaks, I dont hunt it! Took a ride up in snow shoe yesterday, I wouldnt hunt deer up there if you payed me. No food, too much land to pattern.
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DanesDad
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Very few up at my camp, which is what I usually judge by. I've seen a tree here and there, but no big concentration. To be honest, I haven't been to all the places I know of but the early looks aren't favorable.
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FishHuntForever
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Been hard to find accorns this year.
Some places are loaded and others don't have any.
Same with apples, some places have a lot and some the trees are almost dead looking and I know they were loaded last year.
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eyesandgillz
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Lack of a good crop all around is actually better for hunting if you want to pattern the deer. Find the white oaks that did produce this year, especially the ones 100 to 200 yards in from edges of corn fields, etc. and you should be doing well in the early season seeing deer. I haven't scouted or done anything this year except get my gear ready and shoot my bow. Work and family crisis/issues have kept me from the woods. Hopefully I will get some decent hunting in but the first week forecast seems a little warm for my liking. Saturday AM should be great after this front goes through though.
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fishing nut
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We hunted an area at camp that the acorns were dropping like crazy. We saw 20 deer with my buddy taking a nice doe. There were no bucks in all the deer we saw but the sign is there. We found 3 scrapes and a rub line with 10 rubs on it. I can't wait for the rut.
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thedrake
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Lack of a good crop all around is actually better for hunting if you want to pattern the deer. Find the white oaks that did produce this year, especially the ones 100 to 200 yards in from edges of corn fields, etc. and you should be doing well in the early season seeing deer. I haven't scouted or done anything this year except get my gear ready and shoot my bow. Work and family crisis/issues have kept me from the woods. Hopefully I will get some decent hunting in but the first week forecast seems a little warm for my liking. Saturday AM should be great after this front goes through though.
I agree, its easier to pinpoint deer movement/feeding when fewer trees are producing acorns. In my area, there are not many oaks dropping acorns, but a few really are. Those ones have tracks all around them.
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SilverKype
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I got apples falling out of the sky where I hunted Saturday morning. I was there last Saturday, no Red Delicous apples. I got down out of the tree this Saturday at 11 to find about 50 apples between my father and I. hmm. If a warden would have come in, we would have been cited for baiting. Talked to a guy that morning that said he was in there Thrusday. It's likely it was him. People are idiots. Deer never took a bite of the apples anyway. There are friggin akerns anywhere. I had a huge deer come up to me as I was half way down the tree late morning. Just saw the****end and tail going, it was by itself. 
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