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The acorns are still falling here in Eastern NC and the oak tree are hot spots. Movement to the oaks is a little closer to dark so you have to set up on the bedding/approach side of the trees which reduces options for wind/tree selection. The oaks are the place to be right now, right here.

Hunt the thick nasty cover, and food! The only thing that is going to be on their minds (The Deer). Safety/Security & Food/Water. This time of year/Late Season...Acorns & harvested field edges with thick cover very nearby. Hope this helps...Good luck to you.

What if all the crops are picked, all the acorns are already gone, and pretty much all you are left with is random browse and a multitude of bedding places?

same scenario here Rybo

I would imagine that despite the fact that the browse seems to be "random", the deer would always have one or two "preferred" choices, no? The same for bedding areas. While they may like to bed in a variety of locations, there has to be some that are better and thus more preferred than others. And if those would stand to be true, I think you're going to find what your'e looking for.

Well since the farmer loves me, I have 25 acre wheat field, I can tell you, I it surrounded with stands for every wind

I have never shot a buckpast Nov 14, I have come very close twice

I'm sure we have some acorns still on the ground, here. But to identify them as THE food source, right now.....I couldn't do that. I admit I have NO IDEA what the deer I'm hunting are utilizing for their MAIN food source, right now. It's a shortcoming I wish I didn't have to admit to.

When you put in the food plot we have discussed for next season, you will know where they will be............that's for sure. I'd feel pretty confident in my ability to tag a buck at my place in PA right now..........I just don't have a tag there. The last night I was in PA I counted 5 deer on the plot in front of my camp including one stud of a buck, and 7 more deer in the plot across the road from there.

Dan's place in NY does have lots of plots, but no brassica or other cold weather plots that were large enough to produce forage this late unfortunately. This is where I am looking for ideas, their clover plots seem to be getting a little browse after dark but other than that the movement during daylight is limited at best. Dan's place also gets a LOT more gun pressure than my place (my place has only been gun hunted 2x in the last 3 years), so the deer there are educated well by now.

The drive seems like a great idea but honestly I'd rather eat tags than push the sanctuaries we have worked so hard to create.

I'd love to hear what GregH, or Troy, or Buckeye has to say........hopefully one of they will pop in and share some words of wisdom.

Although all of the crops are picked, beans and corn fields will hold deer through the end of Jan. They eat the stalks and missed/spilled grain as well. Plus it seems that they like these open fields to socialize as well.