How is your acorn crop?

bustedknee

My phone went nuts and ruined this post. Just a bunch of code.

So here is a new subject.

We have a good acorn crop here in SW Virginia this fall. The deer do not have to come out of the woods or down off the mountain, so hunting may be a little slow for the folks that hunt the fields.

One year we couldn't find an acorn around here but a fellow from WV said the ground was covered with acorns in his area.

Our squirrels left the woods that year and took up residence in the fence rows where the eating was a little better.

How is it looking in your area.

bullshot

WTH?

Butchdog2

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?

hillbille

KenK/84Bravo said:

*I looked at your post 1st time & got nothing but code. Saw it the second time. This 3rd time nothing but computer code again.

same think Ken......

pulsarnc

Acorn crop is the best in years . Deer are not moving thru the fields . Have two corn piles that are usually overrun . They haven’t been touched . Acorns are everywhere!

Sam06

Hugh!

The deer are going crazy around my place, if I hunted I would have a freezer full.  I have a guy who hunts on my property and he has killed several nice deer.  I do have a few tenderloins to eat.

iceracerx

50 gallons harvested in Michigan UP.   

jar

Here in mid west missouri we have a lot of oak trees in the yard ( house sets in the middle of 40 acres of hardwood timber) and we have enough acorns on the ground that I thought there was something wrong with my zero turn mower. when I figured it out I just sat there shaking my head. lol. my grandad always told me that when there was a lot of acorns there was a long winter coming. I guess we will see.              

wolfpack

Acorns in Southern WV are plentiful this year, at least in my area of Mingo Co.  Lots of white oaks with nuts. Plenty of really nice bucks, but of course these four counties in Southern WV have been bow only for 40+ years. 

firstharmonic

Last year Deb and I cleaned up an estimated 12 bushels of them from our yard. This year there hasn't been but a few scattered ones - maybe five gallons or so. I prefer this year. We have red oaks so their acorns aren't deer favorates anyway.

bustedknee

iceracerx said:

50 gallons harvested in Michigan UP.   

What do you do with them.  I tried eating them when I was a kid.  I'm still trying to get that bitterness out of my mouth.

grdad45

A large white oak overhangs the NW corner of our house. Sometimes sounds like a hail storm when the wind blows. We have a better than average crop this year on my lease, corn feeders are being ignored except by the hogs and raccoons.

cbxjeff

My acorn crop is better than usual though I only have a few oaks.  I have dozens of black walnuts trees and they are a problem this time of year. I very careful where the trucks are parked after the first part of September. 

susie

Finally got a cold snap and its supposed to stop raining so I'm going to take a look see tomorrow.  Haven't had a chance to check the ground.  Been busy catching up on indoor stuff since I returned from all of my out of state shenanigans.

mac10

trees bare and no black walnuts last year was a super bumper crop

Toolman286

It sounds like a war with them hitting the metal roofs. 

lkannes

It was exceptionally dry here in West Central Iowa this year. There wasn't 1 acorn or black walnut to be had this year. The squirrels are in for a very tough winter.

He Dog

Great crop from the Gambel's oaks in our back yard.  Unfortunately no deer there to eat them.  A couple of pounds went to a friend who wants to establish a grove on his property near Lincoln where Billy got in trouble.  I have hunted that property.  Much of it is darn near vertical.

iceracerx

bustedknee said:

iceracerx said:

50 gallons harvested in Michigan UP.   

What do you do with them.  I tried eating them when I was a kid.  I'm still trying to get that bitterness out of my mouth.

Transport to where we hunt deer.  Distribute early and often. 

bustedknee

That is a good ideer.

See what I did there?

mohawk600

The acorns are abundant in Central Texas and the deer are plentiful...............unfortunately, our mature deer are about the size of a Great Dane. They are not "corn fed".

susie

Took a load of corn to the woods. Acorns were very scarce. Going to have to feed through the winter if I don't want the nannies looking like death warmed over.

bustedknee

I find all this very intetesting. Seems like one mountain may have a good acorn crop then the next mountain does not. Maybe even the other side of the mountain.

This certainly explains seeing and not seeing deer from year to year and place to place.

I am forever trying to figure out mother nature.

I suspect acorn crops "vary" from rainfall, temps, sunshine, even last years snows...

We had a lot of rain early in the summer and our fruit and chestnuts rotted on the trees but acorns abound.

We have any game biologists on here?Anyone know for sure exactly what has the most effect?

ridgleyart

Have a great crop here in Missouri.

mohawk600

Acorns are so plentiful in Central Texas that it is ridiculous............I don't understand why our deer are all so small.........

bustedknee

I thought everything was bigger in Texas? Old Air Force buddy told me that.

Maybe the deer are small because the acorns are so large the deer can't swallow them?

select-fire

Great this yr.

varian

coastal ms.  for me non existent this year.

chme

Central VA- if we had any more acorns, would have to put the blade on the tractor to clear the driveway.  White, red, post and chestnut oaks. Deer are loving it- think there is a food fight going on in the back yard.