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<blockquote data-quote="JCDEERMAN" data-source="post: 5493048" data-attributes="member: 5787"><p>I have yet to put my finger on what exactly we see happening this year. The only outlier is the severe drought and that causing a complete acorn failure. Almost non-existent rut activity and that has still yet to be seen on our property. Didn't find the first scrape until 11/16 and first rub on 11/10. Tons of does and fawns and yearling bucks. The older bucks just simply didn't show up. Either something going on with the acorn failure causing no range shift, or they are dead. Never seen anything like this before. After having a great crop of older bucks last year, I would have bet my paycheck this year would have been on fire. It is exactly the opposite of that. It actually has the components of a newly-purchased property that hasn't had any management on it whatsoever. </p><p></p><p>I'm not going to put much emphasis on this year and cast doom and gloom on next year. Just striking it up as a big question mark year. We should be due for a bumper crop of acorns next year. </p><p></p><p>It's definitely not over yet and hoping for just a very delayed timing. We'll see what happens</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JCDEERMAN, post: 5493048, member: 5787"] I have yet to put my finger on what exactly we see happening this year. The only outlier is the severe drought and that causing a complete acorn failure. Almost non-existent rut activity and that has still yet to be seen on our property. Didn’t find the first scrape until 11/16 and first rub on 11/10. Tons of does and fawns and yearling bucks. The older bucks just simply didn’t show up. Either something going on with the acorn failure causing no range shift, or they are dead. Never seen anything like this before. After having a great crop of older bucks last year, I would have bet my paycheck this year would have been on fire. It is exactly the opposite of that. It actually has the components of a newly-purchased property that hasn’t had any management on it whatsoever. I’m not going to put much emphasis on this year and cast doom and gloom on next year. Just striking it up as a big question mark year. We should be due for a bumper crop of acorns next year. It’s definitely not over yet and hoping for just a very delayed timing. We’ll see what happens [/QUOTE]
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