On our farm we have oaks and several hickory trees, not sure which type of hickory, but Ive never seen a deer eat a hickory nut, they seem awful hard to me, Im not saying they wont eat them, but never seen it or any evidence that they have. They will really concentrate on the acorns when they fall, even to the point that they almost stop using my food plots for a coupole weeks. If it were me Id key in on the beans, until the acorns start to drop, usually about the first or second week of oct in mo, then try to find a good patch of white oak dropping nuts, somewhere close to the beans, and try to set up there.