RE: saving acorns for later....
dk, I happen to live in the U.P. of Michigan and my advice to you would to forget about the acorns, regardless of what kind of area you plan on hunting. I would use corn or apples as bait. They seem to work the best for me. Being as you'll be up here during the rut, you'll likely get the bigger bucks following the does to the bait and not really being overly concerned with eating it anyway. Most of the good bucks i've shot have been back behind the feeding does anyway. Hope this helps. Good luck!