Just got back from 5 days in W Va - huntin the Geo Washington Nat'l Forest. Been huntin there 26 years. This is the worst year for mast I've experienced. We did some hard scouting and found zero oak nuts in the woods. I saw one deer from stand, my partner saw two. Saw hundreds of deer down in the valley in the pastures on private property - feeding on pasture grass all thru the daylight hours,too. Problem is - couln't hunt them on the private ground. The locals claim it's as bad as they've ever seen it. Spoke to a mail carrier who owns a farm with her husband in the valley. She said they have one of the few corn fields in the area and the deer came down from the mountain in droves and decimated their field. She claimed they got a permit and killed 51 deer in 3 weeks out of the field. If there's any ort of tuff weather this winter - there's sure to be a significant die-off. The lack of acorns is from a heavy late frost and severe drought in Pendleton County this year. I hope the area you'll be hunting is in better shape. Hunt the grassy areas - recent rainfall has finally turned it green, and that's about all the deer and turkeys can find to munch on right now in a lot of areas down there.