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Good sign
Had to go in the woods today(cool and calm). Glad I did, acorns are starting to fall here(Central Pa.) saw two deer right under a big oak. Now I know for sure which tree to be in on the first week! Also raked the path to my stands. Lets me enter the woods quietly and tells me whether deer have been around. Every little bit helps. Do deer still eat the beans when they turn yellow/brown? Good Luck!!
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/15 13:48:48
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Noplace, I have seen deer eat them when beans have turned, but not as much as when they are green. Acorns are dropin in my woods too....Good Sign....Means I will smoke atleast a doe the first week....They fight over every last acorn on the ground and will browse for hours with their nose to the ground sucking them up.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/16 06:30:00
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Lots of acorns in my area also but how do you know which ones to hunt?When we checked cams last week they where every where.We have both white and red all spaced out.There's not one spot that just have whites or one that just has reds.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/16 06:51:10
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The area(its close to my house) I am hunting is only 25 acres. Small woods, there are only 2 mature red oaks. Really narrows it down!!! Bad news is once those oaks are empty I bet the deer will move on.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/16 06:58:51
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hunt the white oaks if you have them. deer will pass up 10 red oaks to get to a white 1.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/16 07:53:04
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Yeah every spot we hunt got a few whites in them.It makes it tough when the acorns are like they are.They clam that there first choice are white oaks.There second choice are pin oaks.I got a spot close to the house with a good pin oak flat but never hunted it till the rut maybe i'll give it a try earlier while the big boys are feeding there faces.There 3rd choice are red oaks.I have a posted farm i hunt in 2A that 2 years ago there where alot of acorns on the ground but they where like dust balls.You would squeze them an they puff with smoke nothing in them?
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/17 20:45:37
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Better too far back, than too far forward.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/18 17:49:36
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I shot a fat 8 pt( 4 years),in early Oct.that just went crazy over White oak acorns,shot him at 15 yards off the ground,my second evening hunting,total time in the woods 1 1/2 hour and my buck season was over,they go crazy over white oak acorns,hit them first,till there gone, I shot many early season doe's working white oak acorn and a few bucks.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/18 20:35:08
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I checked one spot with one giant white and 5 or 6 mediums sizes whites in the same area.The ground was rake cleaned not a acorn no where in sight.Every other spot with just a couple whites acorns rotting on the ground probably not whites alot of reds in these areas.I know how to tell by the bark and leaves but was does a white oak acorn look like?I looked at them on the net but not a good picture.
post edited by chicken27 - 2010/09/18 20:43:18
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/18 23:25:37
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Now is the perfect time, go find a white dropping them with some reds around. You cant walk under the reds from fear of falling on the acorns and you can't find one on the ground under the whites.
Better too far back, than too far forward.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/19 14:26:24
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/19 14:36:44
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by the time the regular season comes in...roughly 2 weeks i feel they'll be done at the oaks..........
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/19 19:32:22
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Yellow leaves from litle poplar trees. Watch deer for years eatin them like candy. Keep that in your memory...WF
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/19 20:14:26
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They won't be done at the oaks but they will have concentrated on them long enough that they will start to mix in some apples, corn, and cherries again. Even choice prime rib gets old after a few weeks of eating nothing else.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/19 23:13:47
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We'll be lucky if we get a week of hunting the oaks here.
Better too far back, than too far forward.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/20 07:10:02
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I figure if i don't kill a good buck in the first couple days of the season i probably won't get a chance at one till the last week of the season.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/20 11:18:15
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The first week is by far my favorite.
One thing not a lot of people consider is that if a deer feeds all night then beds at dawn on October 1st, there is approximately 11 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. On November 10 there is approximately 9 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. That 2 hours makes a huge difference in how long a deer will stay bedded before feeding again.
In the early season, 12 hours is a long time to stay bedded, so we see deer out feeding prior to sunset. As the daylight starts to shorten it becomes easier and easier for them to stay down until dark.
Just my opinion, no scientific basis.
Better too far back, than too far forward.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/21 01:18:11
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One thing to keep in mind. Those first two weeks of November the bucks will be chasing does and not feeding or bedding much at all. ORIGINAL: MuskyMastr
The first week is by far my favorite.
One thing not a lot of people consider is that if a deer feeds all night then beds at dawn on October 1st, there is approximately 11 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. On November 10 there is approximately 9 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. That 2 hours makes a huge difference in how long a deer will stay bedded before feeding again.
In the early season, 12 hours is a long time to stay bedded, so we see deer out feeding prior to sunset. As the daylight starts to shorten it becomes easier and easier for them to stay down until dark.
Just my opinion, no scientific basis.
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RE: Good sign
2010/09/21 09:01:11
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ORIGINAL: MuskyMastr
The first week is by far my favorite.
One thing not a lot of people consider is that if a deer feeds all night then beds at dawn on October 1st, there is approximately 11 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. On November 10 there is approximately 9 hours and 50 minutes of daylight. That 2 hours makes a huge difference in how long a deer will stay bedded before feeding again.
In the early season, 12 hours is a long time to stay bedded, so we see deer out feeding prior to sunset. As the daylight starts to shorten it becomes easier and easier for them to stay down until dark.
Just my opinion, no scientific basis.
Early season used to be best for me as well until they opened up early doe in 2B.
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