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I might run out soon, but here's one that again is specific to certain parts of the state. I had deer show up within 15-20 minutes of climbing the tree last year when these were dropping, and the ground was covered with empty caps and deer tracks. They are not regular producers, but it's worth finding the ones that are dropping good.

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Swamp White Oak. Could be Swamp Chesnut Oak but I think it's the first one.


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catman529":2czdmxed said:
Swamp chestnut it is. Huge acorns and the deer love them

I have a couple next to my house and the acorns are HUGE for sure and also have some of the biggest white oaks in my backyard and they are LOADED this year but between the swamp chestnuts and the white oaks i usually take up 3 or 4 trash can fulls and dump them in the ditch cause it's insane how many are on the ground


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I've hunted a ton of swamp chestnuts early NOV here in south MS when they are dropping 1st to 2nd week of Nov. Biggest draw of any acorn for deer. I had no idea they produced leaves like the one on the far left. All the ones I've seen looked more like the one on the far right or in between the middle leaf and the one on the right. Very interesting for sure.

To me, the bark of the tree looks almost exactly like a white oak, the leaves (and the acorns) are the give away. Down here, a lot of people call them cow oaks or overcup acorns.

Love to hear deer munching on them, they make quite the 'pop' sound when they bite down on them.

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megalomaniac":2k89hw28 said:
I've hunted a ton of swamp chestnuts early NOV here in south MS when they are dropping 1st to 2nd week of Nov. Biggest draw of any acorn for deer. I had no idea they produced leaves like the one on the far left. All the ones I've seen looked more like the one on the far right or in between the middle leaf and the one on the right. Very interesting for sure.

To me, the bark of the tree looks almost exactly like a white oak, the leaves (and the acorns) are the give away. Down here, a lot of people call them cow oaks or overcup acorns.

Love to hear deer munching on them, they make quite the 'pop' sound when they bite down on them.

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they look a lot like a chinkapin ok but with bigger acorns.


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Agree completely! Bark is the same, and to me the leaves look the same. But all my Chinkapins in TN have very shallow lobed leaves like the leaf pic on the far right.

Not saying they can't have deeply grooved leaves like on the left. Just that I haven't seen those particular leaves on my local swamp chestnuts (or Chinkapins on my TN farms).

I've never seen swamp chestnuts in the same area as chinkapins... id be curious as to which the deer would prefer... but deer will absolutely walk right by white oaks to eat either chinkapins or swamp chestnuts when they are dropping. Both are gold mines during mid bow season for sure!

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megalomaniac":26dxf84d said:
Agree completely! Bark is the same, and to me the leaves look the same. But all my Chinkapins in TN have very shallow lobed leaves like the leaf pic on the far right.

Not saying they can't have deeply grooved leaves like on the left. Just that I haven't seen those particular leaves on my local swamp chestnuts (or Chinkapins on my TN farms).

I've never seen swamp chestnuts in the same area as chinkapins... id be curious as to which the deer would prefer... but deer will absolutely walk right by white oaks to eat either chinkapins or swamp chestnuts when they are dropping. Both are gold mines during mid bow season for sure!

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chinkapins grow in rocky limestone areas and swamp chestnut in wet river bottoms so I doubt you'd see them together. They both seem to be spotty producers so I'm always looking for "that tree" from one year to the next


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