Where are the acorns?

[gunrunner]

I have seen only a handful of acorns around my hunting area this year.Usually by now you can't take a step without crunching acorns.This year there is nothing to speak of on the ground or in the trees.Also,I walk every morning in Warner Park in Nashville and it is the same story.What are you seeing in your areas?I would have thought that with the rain we have had that there would be a bumper crop.

 

[larry ipock]

I live in scott county, and haven't seen hardly any.

 

[Boone 58]

I can tell you from tree checks in both Lawrence and Wayne counties that the trees of the White Oak Variety are "Loaded"................Reds are not on schedule this year in these areas as they only hit every other year, but the Whites including the Chestnut oaks are..........I have also seen some Black oaks.................but I never get excited about them. I start looking for acorns in July. The success and total strategy of my season depends on the Mast crop. We have now not had a failure since around 06 or 07.......this has been quiet a run. I can tell you all that the whites are really good in our counties................therefore our food plots wont be hit hard until December............and that is a strategy.

 

[Boone 58]

from earlier in summer....now they are end of finger size.

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[Bone Collector]

i looked in Rutherford a couple of weeks ago and it seemed the whites had little nodes forming. ill check again i a week or so.

 

[tree_ghost]

i looked in Rutherford a couple of weeks ago and it seemed the whites had little nodes forming. ill check again i a week or so.[/quoted be seen the same thing in Rutherford today, all the oaks are just coming around but the hickory's are dropping good now (not that it matters for deer hunting)


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[Bone Collector]

i looked in Rutherford a couple of weeks ago and it seemed the whites had little nodes forming. ill check again i a week or so.[/quoted be seen the same thing in Rutherford today, all the oaks are just coming around but the hickory's are dropping good now (not that it matters for deer hunting)


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Noticed the hickory trees too.

 

[Mike Belt]

You'll get reds more often than whites but the whites are preferred. What kind of trees do you have and what kind of acorn crop did you have last year? You may have one of those drought years??? Not so good for the deer but better for the hunter provided they have another source of food on you.

 

[jejeffrries71]

I noticed the sawtooths seem to be making acorns. They are only about a dozen years old, so the branches are easy to see. I don't know what is happening with my older swamp chestnuts - the branches are too high to see. I don't remember many acorns on the ground this early in my area.

 

[gunrunner]

I usually am covered up with red and white acorns on my lease.I have hunted there for 8 years and this is the first year that there seems to be a shortage of mast of any kind.I guess it must be part of a down cycle in that area.I am in the northwestern part of Williamson county.

 

[Novocaine]

Too early to be walking on acorns. They should still be up in the trees.

 

[catman529]

I'm in Williamson not too terribly far from Warner parks as the crow flies. Oaks seem to be doing good here, white oaks are up from last year for sure


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[Trevor2]

Trees are loaded in my spots. Just aint dropped yet. hope they don't start till 2nd week in September

 

[MickThompson]

The ones that drop super early are usually aborts. They are acorns that didn't fill out or the tree couldn't support them because it set too many or drought is stressing the tree. I wouldn't get too excited yet.

 

[Trevor2]

The ones that drop super early are usually aborts. They are acorns that didn't fill out or the tree couldn't support them because it set too many or drought is stressing the tree. I wouldn't get too excited yet.

Where I hunted last year all the acorns dropped early last year all the acorns was gone before muzzleloader but just handful spread out across our lease. So I'm hoping for a decent crop this year without an overcrop

 

[MickThompson]

The red oaks I saw last year dropped in October, but like yours, were eaten up pretty quickly. The squirrels and jays were wearing them out before they could make it to the ground. Didn't see much for white oaks.

 

[Trevor2]

The red oaks I saw last year dropped in October, but like yours, were eaten up pretty quickly. The squirrels and jays were wearing them out before they could make it to the ground. Didn't see much for white oaks.

Hoping for a good crop that's "normal" this year

 

[MickThompson]

Everything I have seen suggests that we will have a good white oak crop at least this year. I haven't been around many reds lately to look.

 

[treefarmer]

My Williamson County home White Oak has acorns but they are still growing. It's going to be a while before they fall. No sign of squirrels eating them.

 

[MackPC]

havn't been out to see any this year

 

[user 14220]

Starting to drop on the Plateau.

 

[redhunterZ71]

Bradley co

 

[Winchester]

Too early for many to be on the ground yet but appears to be a good crop hanging in the limbs here, both Red and white.

 

[lungpuncher1]

Looking good in NE TN

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[knightrider]

their still in the trees :moon:

 

[Snake]

White Oak at the house is bearing pretty dang good , dropping as we speak .

 

[redhunterZ71]

 

[Boone 58]

Yep, that is the current view also here in Wayne and Lawrence counties.

 

[Headhunter]

One of the best years I have seen for acorns in a long time.

 

[NumberOne]

Does anybody have a report for Humphreys County (Specifically Halls Creek Area)?