NYak

Well this year in PA the Oak trees decided they all wanted to go dormant for the season and drop about 3 acorns per tree. It made hunting really hard this season because where i seen 10 deer an evening last year, i was lucky to see one an eveningthis year. I have heard a lot of my other hunting buddies saying the same thing, even though they were farther south than i was and some were hunting West Virginia and Maryland. How far south and west did this go? Did anyone else haave a problem with this this year?

Jasonlester

Wasn't there something about this on the news. Like no acorns anywhere?

my7pointmonster

pfft. Around here 3 acorns a tree would have been nice. I Gypsy Moths I think was the main issue around here. South central region and Its been the same story from everyone. I know a guy who relocated them from his yard to his stand sites


Ryan.

bowmanaj

No white oak acorns around here either.. The Burr Oaks produced, and a couple small pin oaks on my propery, but zero on the white oaks

AR Bowhunter

We had a few acorns, no where near what it could be for us. Hopefully it will be better next year.

early in

It was the same thing in my region of SE Pa (Mont & Delaware Co), NO acorns.Some red oaks gave upacorns but no white oaks, at least in my hunting area. White oaks don't have acorns every year anyway. They usually drop every other year. In some areas red oaks will drop in consecutive years though. Acorn drop is tree specific. In other words, if you have a grove of red and or white oaks, this doesn't mean the'll all drop acorns on a given year. Next year should be much better in my area.

txjourneyman

I had just the opposite problem. 2000 acres of hardwoods with acorns falling everywhere makes it hard to pattern deer.

early in

Yes, I think this was a regional thing. Iheard the same thing fromfolks in other statesthat there were acorns coming down like rain. Feast or famine.

GMMAT

Anyone who's been here knows I live on 3 wooded acres (surrounded by the lands I hunt). I can teel you from simply mowing my lawn that we haven't had an "off" year (acorn-wise) since 2005 (the year I started hunting whitetails). I have both red and white oaks on the gorund here (residence).....and there are oaks roducing acorns I haven't even identified, yet....lol. I picked up 5 different kinds in a 5' radius, last season in just a few seconds of looking (in one of my favorite hunting spots).

It could be due to our climate here.....but I'm not sure.

LittleChief

Yep. Northeast Arkansas and West Tennessee are two of them. On any given day in the early season, it sounded like it was raining rocks. I've been hit by at least 15-20 big honkingacornsmyself. Those things hurtwhen all you've got on your head is an ASATmask.[:@]