Are you hunting over the right kind of acorns?
What experience have you had hunting over acorns? What kind have been the most productive for whitetail hunting?
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Zack Doyle
Well as you know, we had this conversation just the other day, and white oak acorns are highly preferred over the rest due to the lower levels of tannic acid they contain If you can find a stand of mature white oaks on a ridgetop that produces more acorns than other areas, that is the area you want to key in on. Of course, the closer to a major bedding area that spot is, the better. If you can combine key food sources, like a stand of white oaks, with terrain features like funnels, saddles, etc, and find one of these prime locations close to a bedding area, you'll have no problem finding and killing deer.Hunt Man
You mentioned a ridge top. What's the advantage in a ridge top. We don't have many ridges where I hunt but I was just curious. This is good information for me. I've hunted over a lot of black oak acorns based on this image. These white oaks will give me one other thing to look for as I'm scouting. Wish I would of known this 10 years ago.Zack Doyle
Ridge tops allows the trees to receive more sunlight. Normally, the largest and best producing white oaks will be at a slightly higher altitude than the rest in a fully wooded situation. Little knolls, hills, and ridges are a great place to start your search.Mike Richardson
I hunt just off of the ridge and like zack said i key in on a saddle. It is funny that Zack just described my hunting spot for the most part. I am on a saddle off of a stand of oaks that is in between a bedding area with a prevailing wind in my face all of the time. I like to hunt a little down from top of the ridge to have a better view and my scent is blown up above the deers nose. A lot of bucks in PA cruise these ridge tops when scent checking for does as well. I have never been winded at this spot. I do take really good care of my clothes and this is the first year i have went to a scent control clothing. But it was cheap at that. I have a good mix of acorns but they are in little stands and not large tracts of them. They logged my area a few years back and it was definetly for the better IMO. The deer have great cover now and the oaks that they left standing dont have a lot of competition. You forgot about them "yellow acorns" lol