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Too Many Acorns
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:20 am
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:20 am
Anyone else in SW Mississippi have tons of acorns in woods? Deer are in absolute lockdown.
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:34 am to Nannyslayer
The ground is covered but deer still eating corn and rice brand. I don't get it.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:38 am to Nannyslayer
Mast year this year. Acorns are everywhere. This past weekend was the most movement we have seen this season, but still way less than usual. They won't touch the corn.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:39 am to Gauxt
corn is literally sprouting from sitting so long. Maybe I'll switch to rice bran.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:46 am to Nannyslayer
Same with us. It's crazy to see it growing in huge piles. We tried putting out some buck plus and they won't touch that either. Just got to wait until the acorns rot or the rut.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:53 am to jdavid1
quote:The rainy weather this week should help accelerate the acorn rot
Just got to wait until the acorns rot or the rut.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 10:55 am to Nannyslayer
Wonder if they will get tired of eating acorns and just stop for a while?
I had a heavy crop of persimmons in my yard and the deer were hitting them hard at first but now there is so many rotting on the ground it smells like a distillery (if a distillery smells like rotting persimmons, idk).
The chickens are let roam in the blueberry patch and they go nuts when they first start getting ripe and you're out there picking and drop a few. Fast forward to near end of blueberry season, the ground is littered with fallen berries and they just walk around them.
They either get tired of them or their body says "we don't need any more of those nutrients, find something else".
I had a heavy crop of persimmons in my yard and the deer were hitting them hard at first but now there is so many rotting on the ground it smells like a distillery (if a distillery smells like rotting persimmons, idk).
The chickens are let roam in the blueberry patch and they go nuts when they first start getting ripe and you're out there picking and drop a few. Fast forward to near end of blueberry season, the ground is littered with fallen berries and they just walk around them.
They either get tired of them or their body says "we don't need any more of those nutrients, find something else".
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:00 am to Bayou_Tiger_225
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The rainy weather this week should help accelerate the acorn rot
In two weeks they will hammer the food plots....hope mine can take the pressure...they've had their best head start in years.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:02 am to Nannyslayer
quote:
Deer are in absolute lockdown.
They're still moving in the woods, just have to get out there and figure out where.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:13 am to Turnblad85
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They either get tired of them
I worked at a peach orchard my freshman summer, the owner told us the first day to eat all we wanted, and we did.
I have never eaten another one my entire life, just the thought makes me ill.
same as animals I'm sure
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:28 am to Nannyslayer
Made 3 hunts Friday-Saturday. Saw 16 deer. Have to find them frickers.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:52 am to The Levee
I shared a picture of mine in the SW MS food plot thread. It’s ready to rock and roll
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 11:53 am
Posted on 12/1/25 at 12:01 pm to Nannyslayer
I hope this doesn't come across to arse holeish....
Get out of the box stand and into the woods with the deer and the acorns.
I haven't baited this year at all I have been working on helping my son and his friend learn to hunt away from box stands and food plots. (I do love a good box stand by the way). Acorns are your best bait.
We are having an outstanding season hunting away from feeders and fields. We don't shoot much we watch them and shoot does. Over thanksgiving week between my son and I we had over 250 deer encounters mostly in oak flats bordered by thickets or saddles/funnels. My son managed to kill a 155" 13 point Wednesday of last week and it was in a plot. (saw him in the woods and knew he would bed down close by and used the wind to guess where he would go)
I am far from anti feeding but the deer and mother nature are trying to tell you they want something other than feed.
Get out of the box stand and into the woods with the deer and the acorns.
I haven't baited this year at all I have been working on helping my son and his friend learn to hunt away from box stands and food plots. (I do love a good box stand by the way). Acorns are your best bait.
We are having an outstanding season hunting away from feeders and fields. We don't shoot much we watch them and shoot does. Over thanksgiving week between my son and I we had over 250 deer encounters mostly in oak flats bordered by thickets or saddles/funnels. My son managed to kill a 155" 13 point Wednesday of last week and it was in a plot. (saw him in the woods and knew he would bed down close by and used the wind to guess where he would go)
I am far from anti feeding but the deer and mother nature are trying to tell you they want something other than feed.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 2:38 pm to Nannyslayer
Im hunting a WMA that has about 8000 acres of planted hardwoods.
Every 5th tree is dropping acorns the size of quarters. It's impossible to patter them. You're strictly getting lucky at this point.
Every 5th tree is dropping acorns the size of quarters. It's impossible to patter them. You're strictly getting lucky at this point.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 2:48 pm to Da Hammer
I’m curious, where do you hunt to have that many encounters?
Not everyone has a lot of acreage to hunt with tons of hardwoods dropping acorns. Sure government land is available but it’s not practical for everyone.
Not everyone has a lot of acreage to hunt with tons of hardwoods dropping acorns. Sure government land is available but it’s not practical for everyone.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:40 pm to Old Man and a Porch
We hunted morning and evening most days from Friday evening before Thanksgiving through Sunday night after Thanksgiving.
We have a lease in Claiborne County it’s a good lease not a great lease. We hunted hard and have worked our butts off as a club to improve habitat and food plots. I would like to think the habitat improvements after several years and other changes are adding up to get us where we are.
Flip side we saw one shooter buck the whole time lots and lots of young bucks but only one we were going to shoot. We will shoot does but trying to let the yearlings get a little bigger even though science says you don’t have to do that. I just struggle walking up on a dead doe with the yearlings 40 yards away watching you haul her off.
We have a lease in Claiborne County it’s a good lease not a great lease. We hunted hard and have worked our butts off as a club to improve habitat and food plots. I would like to think the habitat improvements after several years and other changes are adding up to get us where we are.
Flip side we saw one shooter buck the whole time lots and lots of young bucks but only one we were going to shoot. We will shoot does but trying to let the yearlings get a little bigger even though science says you don’t have to do that. I just struggle walking up on a dead doe with the yearlings 40 yards away watching you haul her off.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:55 pm to Da Hammer
Between 2 hunters, you saw 250 deer hunting in the woods and killed a 155”. Your lease is outstanding.
My dad and I had 400 acres of hardwoods to ourself just across the line in Jefferson cty that I gave up last year. What you described was about 4-5 years of hunting for that place. And in 30 years we never topped 150”.
My dad and I had 400 acres of hardwoods to ourself just across the line in Jefferson cty that I gave up last year. What you described was about 4-5 years of hunting for that place. And in 30 years we never topped 150”.
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 8:00 pm
Posted on 12/1/25 at 7:59 pm to turkish
I would say the majority of the people do not hunt in a lease as good as yours. I could sit in my lease every second of legal shooting light during hunting season and not see 250 deer.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 8:32 pm to Gauxt
Eating corn from dusk till dawn. Hoping the rain will sour the acorns.
Posted on 12/2/25 at 3:33 am to Nannyslayer
Have property in GA that I hunt. Deer all over the acorns. Won’t touch the corn and have seen very little activity in the food plots/fields. Expecting that to change soon.
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