Can,t find any white acorns in my hunting areas.There is a great abundant of reds though.
Any of you whitetailers hunt the redoaks.??Would it be worth it.??Can you say you have been successful while hunting around these trees???

I have no white oaks in my woods or anywhere close by. I hunt the reds all the time they are dropping and the deer hit them hard.

Tim there are a few white oaks on top of the mountain, John pointed them out to me and the difference in the leaf size and shape.

we have very few whiteoaks here so the deer eat the redoak acorns. Find the "HOT" tree and you are in business

If there aren't any of the deer's favorites they will eat their next most favorite which would be pin oak, post oak, red oak, then on down the list to Black oak and water oak. The water oak acorns are the ones that are the size of golf balls....they are filling but bitter.

If you never gave a little kid candy and he didn't know what he was missing......he would probably love the taste of broccoli and carrots.  

Swamp chestnut oak, whiteoak,red then water. Swamp and whwhite are favorites here in Mississippi

Swamp chestnut oak, whiteoak,red then water. Swamp and whwhite are favorites here in Mississippi

try spreading some fertilizer to you rfavorite one, it makes them taste better and the deer will hit them hard. Google "systemic tree feeding" it works well on all trees.

I pretty much specifically hunt reds in IL and seems like the deer prefer them more then anything else, but then again I do not have very many white oaks in my areas, but red oak acorsn are solid producers of deer sightings and activity.

Water oaks and willow oaks are a variety of red oak, swamp chestnut are a white oak variety... the white oak specifically, and swamp chestnut are very rare this season- but water, red, and willow oak acorns are falling and the deer and hogs are tearing them up.

deer are like everything else with prefreances. i believe that whatever acorns are dropin at that time is the acorns that gets ate and where i'll be hunting.

I walk and check trees for feed sign. If its tore up no matter the kind of oak I`ll hunt it.RC

Will repeat from the other thread:
 
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If the lopes of oak leaves are rounded, they are of the white oak clan. If pointed lobes, then of the black oak clan (red oaks).


If I remember correctly - a former biologist and writer who posts over on another site concluded their research on the subject revealed - preferred acorn species varied from region to region, deer to deer, and oak species to oak species, with no one certain acorn species preferred over another and believe it may have been more to do about ground minerals and nut toxicity over others.

If it's an acorn, they'll eat it but prefer certain trees over others regardless of species which I tend to agree. Squirrel hunted enough to know squirrels prefer certain trees over others and will cut them out first before moving on the next preferred tree even of the same species.

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