Late Season Oak Trees ???

[WMAn]

Hoping to hunt the coldest weather this next week. What has been your experience hunting red oaks late season?

I found a spot the week of Thanksgiving that was loaded with red oak acorns. Deer were on them good then. Thinking about a return trip. Just wondering if they have been cleaned out since. Guess there is only one way to find out.

 

[Smo]

I would think most acorns would be rotten by now.

Still it would be worth taking a look at it .

There could a few scattered under the leaves.

 

[csi-tech]

My Christmas Eve buck's belly was full of them. They are still piled up on my farm and crunchy.

 

[catman529]

When I lived at my parents house and we had a bumper crop of acorns. The deer would mostly stay across the fence except for the occasional doe or two in the backyard. Our backyard would be loaded down with red oak acorns but so would be the woods behind the fence.

Then usually right after season closed, I guess they ran out of acorns in their usual travel routes, and started hanging out in the back yard much more often eating the leftover red oak acorns. Always frustrated me how many deer would show up in bow range from the kitchen window after season closed. [emoji1][emoji1]


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[Spurhunter]

All the acorns here are sprouting or rotting, but it's almost all white oaks.

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[Smo]

Man I wished I had a truck load of them here.

I know a spot much like Catman was talking about .

It's an cemetery , I saw two nice Bucks in it just after season closed last year.

I stopped the next day to check out the area and the ground was still covered in acorns.

Funny thing was the cemetery was in the middle of a large cow pasture with a gravel running through it.

Cows on both sides the road and a small area fenced off for the cemetery.

 

[Mike Belt]

White oaks don't last this long on the ground. Red oaks do. Without any ag crops or food plots they may very well be their mainstay through the winter.

 

[muddyboots]

I killed a buck Christmas Eve morning. Full of acorns.

 

[Andy S.]

Red oaks will be golden right now with this arctic blast coming through.

 

[elknturkey]

Red oaks will get hit thru the end of winter even into early spring if available. Tannic acid preserves them but also makes them more bitter hence why white oaks get hit first

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[BigAl]

I saw 7 does feeding under a big red oak tree last week. I would have thought they were finished.

 

[Snake]

White oaks don't last this long on the ground. Red oaks do. Without any ag crops or food plots they may very well be their mainstay through the winter.

This ^^^^^ deer prefer white oak acorns because they are sweeter but don't last through the winter but red oaks do .

 

[Winchester]

Good advice, the red oaks will last into spring because of the amount of Tanic acid in them, hence takes longer to rot. White oaks will normally rot quicker with less tanic acid but this also makes them sweeter and more preferred by Deer when they are readily available. Hunt the Red oaks if you have them!!!