Valentine

I kidded myself earlier. I was on my daily rehab walk in the park and woods the last few weeks, and I started noticing the acorns were dropping very heavily. In fact, it's the most I've noticed in years. Well I got nailed by an acorn this morning in my cloth headgear/head, with about a thirty foot drop. If that acorn was as big as a baseball it would have knocked me silly. I could still feel where it hit, an hour later.

I noticed the corn baiters, downstate, are a little slow lately seeing deer. I suspect the deer are getting their fill on those acorns and not moving very much. I saw enough acorns down in one area, it could probably feed five deer all week. They must have a better hidden site, because no deer has seemed to hit this site.

For deer, those free acorns seem a lot better than hunter paid and carried in corn. I'm glad corn isn't on my bill.

Mojotex

Count your self lucky. Where I hunt in SE Alabama ... acron crop is fair at best. White oaks are all but a total failure. Chestnut oaks did OK but are all but gone now. The water oaks are doing pretty good. Still a tad early for the red oaks. Just gone through onew of the driest Octobers on record. Food plots on ur place are extremely stressed because we missed the last two rain fronts all together. Not much in the forecast to give them any real relief.

shottyhunter24

I still have to figure out what my deer eat here in northern MN.....there are no oaks...we never see pine cones and its too far north for corn.