I have a yard full of mature white oaks. In the almost 40 years of living here, I have never seen as many as this year. I have seen years with none and years with a lot, but this year is one for the ages, at least for my yard.
I hope this isn’t some sign of what is to come this winter.
Good deer hunting if you hunt around stands of mature oak! (and I do!!!)
I noticed that yesterday too !!! Big and lots of acorns on the oak. 
Good deer hunting if you hunt around stands of mature oak! (and I do!!!)
Problem with that is the Forrest is usually full of them and they can eat any where.
Rake those suckers up and bag them in gunny sacks and sell them to bear baiters. Used as bait in areas where there are zero oak trees they are one phenominal bear bait.
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Good deer hunting if you hunt around stands of mature oak! (and I do!!!)Problem with that is the Forrest is usually full of them and they can eat any where.
White oak acorns are much less bitter than other acorns. The deer will travel a long distance to get at them and will clean them up way before they start on the more bitter nuts.
White oak probably isn’t as plentiful, in most areas, so you are sitting on a natural, deer gold mine with a butt load of prime, white oak acorns.
A couple weeks into the bow season and they’ll probably have them eaten up and moved on. If they are still there when bow season starts and you have a stand nearby…game on!
I was at a 3D archery shoot on Saturday.
Where the shoot is located it has a lot of oak trees.
The white oaks were loaded, didn’t see any red oaks that had any on them and only 10 to 20% of the Burr oaks had acorns.
Last year in the areas I hunt the Burr oaks had a good crop.
White oak acorns are much less bitter than other acorns. The deer will travel a long distance to get at them and will clean them up way before they start on the more bitter nuts.
White oak probably isn’t as plentiful, in most areas, so you are sitting on a natural, deer gold mine with a butt load of prime, white oak acorns.
A couple weeks into the bow season and they’ll probably have them eaten up and moved on. If they are still there when bow season starts and you have a stand nearby…game on!
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The woods I hunt is full of white oaks so the source is everywhere, that’s why I said it makes it tough. Be awesome if it were a select few trees but it’s tons and tons of them here.
No oaks around home, but going to have to check them out at the cabin!!
Wheezy outdoors just north of remer, a young couple that guides bear hunts amongst other adventures said the food is pretty scarce up there this year. Thinks yogi and boo boo are going to be hungry.
My last house had both red and white oaks in it. Some years it was brutal how many would fall. New house only has maple trees. Glad I don’t have to deal with those anymore.
I had them at the old house also, Reds and Whites. Most falls… the sound of acorns hitting the steel roofs on the sheds was a sign that seasons were changing !
Does this mean a tough winter? Here is what it means for deer hunting-kidding, no idea.
The deer north of the cities already took a hit last winter.
The deer north of the cities already took a hit last winter.
Yes I do agree, but further north. We do a deer drive every night around 730 to dark. I have personally never seen so many twins in my life. We drove by a field last night and counted 54 doe standing in it. The very next field had 8 bucks. This loop we do is 20 miles or so and I bet we counted well over 400 deer. We seen a total of 24 bucks last night with 6 or 8 of them being beautiful shooter bucks. And well over a 100 spotted fawns
how much further north BC. i’ve been at the cabin up in Itasca county a fair amoiunt and actually surprised the amount of deer i’m seeing……with fawns!!! 
how much further north BC. i’ve been at the cabin up in Itasca county a fair amoiunt and actually surprised the amount of deer i’m seeing……with fawns!!!
Not sure. I know from north branch to Hinkley is doing very good.
In N.W. Wisconsin the deer had a hard winter. Usually have 8 does that frequent the property and only a single doe had a fawn this year. You could the the ribs on most of them this spring. Haven’t seen much for fawns driving around either, and if I do see any fawns I haven’t seen many if any twins.
We have a set of twins and triplets that frequent our place. We are east of Mille Lacs and the population is so down, we are lottery for a doe tag. About 10 years ago, they had a 5 deer limit, now your hard pressed to get 1. Between overharvest and the wolves, the area is way down.
We have a set of twins and triplets that frequent our place. We are east of Mille Lacs and the population is so down, we are lottery for a doe tag. About 10 years ago, they had a 5 deer limit, now your hard pressed to get 1. Between overharvest and the wolves, the area is way down.
North of pine city have been effected pretty hard by wolves from the information I have gathered. But the dnr will deny that. We hung gutters on 2 houses in wakhon Saturday and both were avid hunters with land in the area. Both get more wolf pics on cam then anything else.
We hunt east of Sandstone and our area for the first time in 5 years is lottery for doe tags. We hear lots of wolves and yotes at night.
Don’t toss those in the trash. Deer love them. We used to feed them to the pigs 2 weeks before processing. Grandpa always said it made the meat taste better.
Check out the song Yella Acorns.
We hunt east of Sandstone and our area for the first time in 5 years is lottery for doe tags. We hear lots of wolves and yotes at night.
That’s when you leave the area. We used to hunt Finlayson askov pretty hard and I’m glad we moved areas. Now I hunt a bunch of different properties but I don’t miss up there to much.
That’s when you leave the area.
Yeah we have talked about it. I hunt with a group that has been hunting this public land for 20-30 years and I was welcomed into the group about 5 years ago, so I do what they want to do. The change in regs just happened this year, we have done pretty well overall over the time I have been going, nothing huge but a couple nice bucks taken and plenty of does and small bucks, we mostly meat hunt.
Sign of early fall is coming! Acorns seam bigger this year also.
Yeah we have talked about it. I hunt with a group that has been hunting this public land for 20-30 years and I was welcomed into the group about 5 years ago, so I do what they want to do. The change in regs just happened this year, we have done pretty well overall over the time I have been going, nothing huge but a couple nice bucks taken and plenty of does and small bucks, we mostly meat hunt.
[/quote] we have hunted the cabin area, and pretty much the same woods/stands for close to 35 years. it more about a tradition, and we have a nice place to stay.
some years we do really well, even fill our tags, then like last year we ate alot of tag soup.
its just not that simple to pack up and move to a new area. and not knowing your going to be infringing on someone elses area. and private land is almost nonexsistent for deer hunting. its usually already leased or spoken for!!
Exactly Glenn, I hunted Nemadji for a few years. Tough area to hunt lots of wolves and lots of pressure. There is so much blaze orange in the public woods. I have had a guy come strolling in while sitting on the ground to within 30 yards of me and climb into a tree stand that was not there the day before and not even look my direction as I was flashing my light his direction. Not saying he did anything wrong at all, just that you have no idea how many people are using the area until opening morning.
Meanwhile, where I hunt in southern MN just got bumped from Lottery to Buck-or-Doe! Wolves don’t know what they’re missin’ down here!!!
Exactly Glenn, I hunted Nemadji for a few years. Tough area to hunt lots of wolves and lots of pressure. There is so much blaze orange in the public woods. I have had a guy come strolling in while sitting on the ground to within 30 yards of me and climb into a tree stand that was not there the day before and not even look my direction as I was flashing my light his direction. Not saying he did anything wrong at all, just that you have no idea how many people are using the area until opening morning.
I hunt lots of state land and a few pieces of private. Have I ran in to others in state yes, but more often I see no one. I also try to avoid the biggest easy to get to pieces. Mostly because the majority of people are on the lazy side and will find the easiest hike in spot and go in 100 yards, which there isn’t anything wrong with but I’ll find a small piece that isn’t as desirable and go there, or canoe access or swamp instead of hard woods. I get it either way, I also don’t hunt with any one else besides the days I take out my son. I don’t have a group that I hunt with.
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