A deer I shot in the first week of October was fat.
I have a small buck to butcher this weekend and field dressing revealed a lot of fat internally. I'll be interested to see him once he's skinned.
We didn't seem to have a great acorn crop, but our rain was more or less every two or three days from spring to fall. Fall was warm. I think the rain may have had two effects. One was simply to make every thing plush. The other was that around here there were tremendous amounts of standing crops that the farmers couldn't get to because of mud. One of the farmers I talked to said they were a month behind. There was a lot food available that would not have been otherwise.