I could be mixed up here but I believe white oaks can/or will skip a year in acorn production where red oaks will produce every year. If this info is incorrect, please forgive me... but I believe that it is right.

I have seen half of a big white oak bear and the other half nothing,
Thomahawk it is the white oak,but they did not have any last year
I have been using 16x Binos,nothing in my white oaks

I kinda like hunting when the white oaks are sparse

Red oak acorns take two years to mature. White oak only one. Some individual trees will skip years, some produce every year.

Found some yesterday. I think as the month progresses you will start seeing more and more. Usually start dropping at end of Sept. so it may be a little early yet to see em well. If you haven't tried this, take some binocs. with you and look at the top of the trees for some.

Agree too that binocs are a must for seeing them this time of year.

Ours are loaded in Middle Tn.

I could be mixed up here but I believe white oaks can/or will skip a year in acorn production where red oaks will produce every year. If this info is incorrect, please forgive me... but I believe that it is right.

You talking about Humphries?

You got it backwards bud....

From Nashville west to KY Lake.

Everywhere I've looked they are loaded, especially near the Lake.

Ours are loaded in Middle Tn.

Good for deer,for deer hunters?????

TRUE BSK,
But my field notes reflect AWESOME rut activity associated with HUGE mast crops. Also, the rut tends to start a little earlier with big mast crop of Quercus Alba.

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Good for deer, tough for hunters. Bumper acorn crops produce less deer movement, as deer don't have to go far to find food.

What I feel is happening is that the hunters scent lingers in the area, thus pushing the deer over the next ridge where PLENTY of acorns exist.

In other words, PLENTY of food can cause spooky deer to simply "roll on over" to their next acorn flat where there is NO human intrusion.

Suckers lay around all day and stay within a very centralized location. They don't have to move unless disturbed.

Hard to be certain plinker, but I believe the top photo is a black oak.

Yup, black oak, which is in the red family. My blacks are loaded too.

Same here Pursuit. The deer went after the chestnut oaks around opening week. Couldn't find that magic tree. But by the 2nd week of october there were three white oaks together that started dropping. After seeing several fresh piles of poop I relocated to 23 yards from them and killed a fat doe the first evening. These trees were GPS'd and hope they perform again.

I'm convinced that there is nothing a deer would rather eat than a white oak acorn (in general).

You think they like White Oak acorns, you should see how they respond to Swamp Chestnut Oak acorns! I would have to list that acorn as #1 preference. Of course, the Swamp Chestnut is in the white oak family (and not to be confused with the Mountain Chestnut Oak).