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Post by oldfarmsblueman on Sept 24, 2009 15:03:51 GMT -5
I never thought I would say this but there are to many acorns.I put up a stand in a big old White Oak yesterday and took it down after 4 hours this morning.I am sitting in an area I have all to my self  .The area we call the Oaks.Its about 30 acres in among 100's.In some spots there are from 5-15 acorns per sq.foot  .No trails,no deer droppings nothing.I can see 50-100 yards from that stand.The whole area has so many I think the deer can get filled up anywhere any time and don't have to travel very far. :-/There's nothing like having just a few big oak trees in an area where there are none. |
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Post by ghost on Sept 24, 2009 15:55:30 GMT -5
Why not rake some up and put them in an area the has deer but not enough acorns?
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Post by BT on Sept 24, 2009 16:26:35 GMT -5
This happened two years back. Thank God we dont have any here  |
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Post by horizontalhunter on Sept 24, 2009 18:39:00 GMT -5
Lots of acorns is what I have been seeing in Fairfield as well. When there are this many acorns it can make for some tough hunting as they don't need to move around much to fill up. I have noticed though that if you look around enough you will find that they seem to have a preference for certain acorn trees.
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Post by DocHolladay on Sept 24, 2009 19:32:46 GMT -5
What Bob said. I would look for one or two acorn trees where you can tell that the deer and turkey are frueqenting. These are the oaks with the best tasting acorns.
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madoktor1
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Post by madoktor1 on Sept 24, 2009 21:23:10 GMT -5
We found the same thing when we went on our hunt last weekend. There weren't many white oak acorns but a bunch of red oak and chestnut oaks.
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Post by rattlesnake on Sept 25, 2009 2:34:32 GMT -5
In scouting the last few weeks, we too have so many it's hard to figure out where the deer are at all.
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Post by nkybuck on Sept 25, 2009 7:52:13 GMT -5
If you start fertilizing a couple of these trees and putting lime down doesn't hurt the deer will frequent those trees due to the better tasting nuts. I did alot of research on this a few years back the most common method I found was one pound of 10-10-10 every six feet around the drip line in a hole.  |
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Post by oldfarmsblueman on Sept 26, 2009 14:45:58 GMT -5
I have about 1400 acres to hunt .I can only look for places with less.It's going to be a fun year.I hope the turkeys and squirrels put a big dent in them.  |
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.The area we call the 
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