There are no fences, and its is a swampy area with sloughs everywhere. No way to catch em at water.
i am sure that your area has been logged at some point intime so its not thousands of acres of nothing, but oaks...if it were like that, ARK would be the deer cap. of the world...so try to find the white oaks that are dropping.
It is seriously 90% oaks, no joking. And there are several big deer taken here every year, I have seen several myself. The surrounding area is a lot more open pastures and stuff, this place holds deer for sure. I haven't found any white oaks this year due to the very late freeze this spring, but I had found several Pin oak trees with all kinds of droppings under and around them. I've hunted and always see deer, but I'm trying to pattern whereother deer are coming through to other oaks. Kinda hard to explain myself I guess.
But after the acorns are gone or rotten, what would your strategy be then? Acorns only provide a few weeks of food for deer. I'm positive they eat on natural browse mostly, but it is so scattered also. Mainly those overgrown previously cut areas I talked of.