This is my hunting nemesis, this year....

[Big Muddy]

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They are absolutely covering the ground in my hunting woods....heck, food plots are useless....shouldn't have wasted my time and effort on them because the deer aren't touching them....there's so many acorns that they can easily last thru February, maybe even March.

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[quercus alba]

quercus alba

[Big Muddy]

Correct you are, my friend. ;)

[jb]

white or red oak ?, up here, white oak are considered the very best.

[Big Muddy]

JB, ALL of the oak tree varieties produced abundantly, this year....red, white, cow oak, swamp chestnut, sawtooth, you name it....I've lived here for 67 years, and I've never seen them produce this way....the pic is a handful of whites....they are huge, and I've got pretty big hands.

It's nearly a 1/2 mile walk from my house to my deer stand, along an old logging road....I can hardly take a single step, along that road, without stepping on some variety of acorn.

And, you are correct....any variety of the whites are deer's preference....they'll start scarfing up the little reds, water and live oaks, after the whites are all gone.

[Captain]

Same here Muddy, walking in the oak woods are like trying to walk on marbles. Corn stacking up under feeders and food plots get a gently drive by once in a while.

[Big Muddy]

Yep, Cap, and it's dang near pizzing me off. ;)

[quercus alba]

Means a good fawn crop. Biologist told me that a buck will father twice as many fawns on an acorn diet as on browse

[Big Muddy]

Yep, QA, that is just one of the many benefits of a good mast crop....but, it sure screws up the hunting over foodplots....we just hafta hunt differently....more mid-day hunting, and more frequent and longer hours on stand....and, prolly some walking and kicking brush piles. ;)

[quercus alba]

Back in the day, we'd just turn loose a pack of walker hounds and load up with double oughts.

[Big Muddy]

Yep, that use to be fun, too, for sure....dog hunting is a thing of the past around these parts. ;)

[Buckrub]

We have white oak acorns that 3 of those will fit inside. Cats eye marbles. By the grunzillions. They are sweet all the time. Red Oaks are more bitter and they'll shelve those if white oaks are nearby, but will eat them for the protein if needed. But they make "bitter deer face" when they do. By "we" I mean S. Central Arkansas. I don't know what S.E. Arkansas has, I'll find out this weekend. I expect the same. Corn and food plots are pretty much wasted.

[quercus alba]

As quit yer notching and put your feeders in a pine thicket