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Scouting today. I covered 92 acres. Lots of oaks all over the property. Hardly any are dropping acorns and the deer seem to be... well... some place else. Sat by  one of the few big white oaks that were dropping mast. Had a bear come feeding through about 8 yards from me.  Found one good ridge with some sign (tracks and turds.  Any one else lacking acorn production?

hardly any here this year.

They're all in my yard,  :mad:  but they are tiny things compared to normal. It feels like I have a gravel yard instead of grass.

None here in West Tennessee either. The ones that are dropping are empty. Lots of pecan, hickory and oaks are dumping all the nuts early to fight for survival due to out severe drought we have been in. The pecans didn't make and the hickorys are still in the green shell. That early april freeze we had killed all the blooms and the ones that did produce didn't have enough moisture to make anything. Heck, the leaves have been drying up and falling for a month. The only ones available are red oaks because they take two years to produce and they are tiny but there is meat in them. Going to be a tough year on the deer around here. To add stress to an already stressed deer herd, we have had a severe outbreak of EHD and deer are dying all over the place.

They are most diffintely in my yard, had to buy a cover for wifes car...To bad no deer here..

Hard to believe as dry as it has been here, but I have found them everywhere I've looked. I really didn't expect to find many this year, but after seeing them on the trees in my yard, I went scouting the hunting land and found them on more trees than I have in several years. Go figure.

Mark

Mosquitos are eating them all at my House.  Never seen such a thing.

I was concerned because we had a late frost that killed all my apples/pears but I checked a big white oak behind the house this weekend and it had lots of mid-sized acorns on them.  Still green though.  Don't know how the oaks up the mountain did though.

The Spring freeze killed alot of the mast crop in the Midwest.Not good.

The same thing happened here last year. The only thing I could find out(after A LOT of research) is that we had three or four days of heavy rain around the time they are viable, which reduced the chance of pollination.
The trees seem to be making up for it this year as acorns are all over.
Sounds like the one tree you found needs a stand in it or ablind by it. Good luck.

Plenty here in the areas I hunt. Not as big in size as normal but plenty of em. Spotty in places but that is a good thing. Find where there is only a few trees bearing and dropping and you have a honey hole.

Acorns everywhere in California this year...none last year. Hard to stalk quietly around oak trees.

lots of acorns here. problem is, deer are harder to pattern in the woods than coming out to fields everynight.

The trees where I hunt at are loaded down this year with acorns. The apple trees started dropping apples last week and the deer are eating them up. I just wish it had waited until this week to drop them. Bow season starts here in TWO DAYS and I am ready to go.

Yup, we got plenty of acorns, most trees are heavy with them. There are few areas I hunt that the oaks do not have many or any, but they are few and far between.. I have to agree with Kingstaken as our deer numbers are way down in my part of NY anyway! Shawn

ton's of them in our area this year


Doug77

Plenty here on my land in Central MS. I haven't checked the Public Woods yet.

I have yet to find a tree with more than a few acorns on it. Apples look abundant!

Couldn't take all the talk without checking the tree here in TN ! In my 5 acre yard I have a good assortment of hickory, white and red oaks. No hickory nuts at all ! Red oaks, being that it takes two years, some have acorns if it was their year to produce, but seem small. Part of that is our severe drought in and around Chattanooga, TN. We are 16" behind on rain and have had 25 days over 95 degrees IN A ROW !!! White oaks are hit or miss. Some trees are loaded with good size acorns, others are small acorns and not many of them. After our 22 degree morning in mid April I cannot believe we have ANY mast !

nocams

The mast crops here are enormous this year...except where the gypsy moth went through.

The white oaks on my little property are shedding like hounds.  Last year you had to look hard for a few of them.

It may have been posted (I didn't read them all) but I know that Missouri's white oaks were hit hard by the late freeze we had in April. White oak production will be bad this year. Good news is that red oaks (which produce on a two year cycle) will be heavy. We should set a harvest record for Missouri this year. The deer will be easier to hunt than the past two years.

John III

Hardly any acorns at all here in southern Michigan.

I found some overcup oaks today that were over 1 inch in diameter after the hull was peeled off.  Big uns given that my section of Ohio is classifed as "extreme drought conditions".  They ain't lyin either.  I can't remember the last time it rained.  But this big ole oak is tossin off acorns (akerns to you southern boys) like you can't believe.

Bumper crop in Newaygo county for me,,well at least on the 85 that I hunt,,wnet there monday a day break to do some sneakin around and watching with the binocs,,All the deer were eating acorns,,three bucks and a half dozen doe's,,lookin like a great season,,J B

both of the trees here at the house have a decent crop on em. not sure about the big woods yet, hope to get out next week and do a little scouting to see just what's  what....

I saw one today flying across my yard....had 4 skeeters clinging to it!  ya"ll ever sen anything like that?

Haven't had any on our trees in two years. I went and checked other places(about a 20 mile radius) and no acorns there either.