Acorns as far as the eye can see!

[DeerCamp]

I don't even remember a late January with this many (edible) acorns still on the ground.

We have had a down year in terms of food plot use. It's maybe 20% of typical use.

These pictures were taken this weekend. I actually cracked a few of them open and nibble on them. They seemed very edible.

 

[deerhunter10]

I've said it many times already this season, but by far the biggest acorn crop I've ever seem especially on red oaks.

 

[BSK]

My place still looks like that too, but we had crazy use of the food plots. No ide why, other than possibly because we fertilized the plots so heavily this year. Brought in the big spreader trucks.

 

[BSK]

I've said it many times already this season, but by far the biggest acorn crop I've ever seem especially on red oaks.

That's really interesting deerhunter10. Our massive crop this year was almost exclusively white oaks (Whites and Mountain Chestnut). We had few red oak acorns. And our acorn crop two years ago was just as big. Strange to get to massive bumper crops in a 3-year period.

 

[deerhunter10]

That's really interesting deerhunter10. Our massive crop this year was almost exclusively white oaks (Whites and Mountain Chestnut). We had few red oak acorns. And our acorn crop two years ago was just as big. Strange to get to massive bumper crops in a 3-year period.

Our white oaks were above average but have seen bigger. Every single redoak tree it seems had a giant crop. We have a lot of rocks around here and you could literally skate across them on the acorns. Last year we didn't have hardly any. The year before red oaks normal white oaks above normal. My FIL has lived on the farm I own now for 50 plus years and he even said it's as big of a crop as he ever remembers.

 

[Patrick H]

Deer camp, what part of the state or county was that picture taken?

I hunt in Perry County and we too had a record acorn drop.

 

[DeerCamp]

Deer camp, what part of the state or county was that picture taken?

I hunt in Perry County and we too had a record acorn drop.

Henderson County

 

[Creek bottoms]

That also explains why I'm not seeing many turkeys in the fields.

 

[DeerCamp]

My place still looks like that too, but we had crazy use of the food plots. No ide why, other than possibly because we fertilized the plots so heavily this year. Brought in the big spreader trucks.

To be fair, the food plot is pretty average this year. My buddy was going through a divorce and had lost his lease, so he gave me 5 bags of various stuff.

I think they had been out in his shop for at least 2 years before I got them. Germination was spotty.

Gonna have to do a little better this year.

 

[backyardtndeer]

We didn't have anything like that here.

 

[Gravey]

Ours looked like that too. My front yard has 2 oaks and they're everywhere.

 

[TboneD]

Here in Wilson county we also had a ton. Absolutely the heaviest acorn drop of all kinds that I can remember. Checked several red oak acorns Sunday afternoon and they were still good.

Edit: I should add it made bow season really tough.

 

[Popcorn]

Stewart and Trigg counties are still carpeted with acorns from white, pin and post oaks. I would have thought they would have rotted by now, Deer have been wondering around on acorns all fall and winter. No real patterns for the first time in my life.

 

[Wooden Arrow]

that picture could be of my yard. a couple of years back, my big oak out front dropped so many that i scooped them up with a shovel and hauled them down to Hawkins Co. where i used to hunt. had over 27 gallons in 3 and 5 gallon buckets. deer and turkeys had them gone in less than a week...

 

[killingtime 41]

I don't even remember a late January with this many (edible) acorns still on the ground.

We have had a down year in terms of food plot use. It's maybe 20% of typical use.

These pictures were taken this weekend. I actually cracked a few of them open and nibble on them. They seemed very edible.

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Ain't some of those in the pic white oak caps it looks it to me.

 

[knightrider]

that picture could be of my yard. a couple of years back, my big oak out front dropped so many that i scooped them up with a shovel and hauled them down to Hawkins Co. where i used to hunt. had over 27 gallons in 3 and 5 gallon buckets. deer and turkeys had them gone in less than a week...

Just dont get caught

 

[Wooden Arrow]

tossed them weeks before i hunted, they were long gone. turkeys REALLY hit it. oddly, the cows seem to have helped ? the cows on this farm also ate persimmons and pawpaws. dang things...