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re: Too Many Acorns
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:38 am to da foozball
Posted on 12/2/25 at 4:38 am to da foozball
Very little movement at my place. The bumper crop of acorns is my bet too. Fatten them up for later 
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Posted on 12/2/25 at 10:26 am to Nannyslayer
Why don’t you actually hunt them instead of sitting over bait?
Posted on 12/3/25 at 8:57 am to bamarep
patterning is still the same, not all acorns dropped taste good. Watch the squirrels and raccoons, where you find them you will find the oaks that have the most palatable acorns, the deer will show up.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:27 am to SmoothBox
Maybe he’s old,
maybe he can’t walk long distances,
maybe he doesn’t own a climber,
maybe he’s hunted whole life and killed enough deer the trouble isn’t worth the reward,
maybe his club don’t let him hunt the woods
Maybe he gets cold easily
Could be a billion other reason he doesn’t “hunt” like you think he should
maybe he can’t walk long distances,
maybe he doesn’t own a climber,
maybe he’s hunted whole life and killed enough deer the trouble isn’t worth the reward,
maybe his club don’t let him hunt the woods
Maybe he gets cold easily
Could be a billion other reason he doesn’t “hunt” like you think he should
Posted on 12/3/25 at 10:03 am to turkish
quote:I’m currently flipping a property in Jefferson right now. My question would be in yalls 30 years did you do any timber removal, burns, or tree planting? It’s so much more than filling up a feeder and plating a food plot here and there. Jefferson has great genetics but if you had just wide open virgin hardwoods it’s easy to see why you had those results. I’m on year 5 of this particular property and have got two 150’s (gross) the last two years. Making sanctuaries, bedding areas along with year round food and water access during droughts can have incredible results along with a discipline trigger finger. This is also less than 600 acres btw. If you put in the work in the river parishes/counties the potential is there.
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”.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 10:37 am to Jim Hopper
Timber co lease, fertile soil, and milder hills near Alcorn. Thinnings every 8-10 yrs. Burning and baiting strictly prohibited.
No one will convince me that bait can’t overcome most other inadequacies. We did everything better than our neighbors, just didn’t bait. They’d kill 2 150s on 200 acres and we wouldn’t even have a nighttime photo of anything over 125”. I have my own place in Wilkinson cty now and I’m so far repeating these same results.
No one will convince me that bait can’t overcome most other inadequacies. We did everything better than our neighbors, just didn’t bait. They’d kill 2 150s on 200 acres and we wouldn’t even have a nighttime photo of anything over 125”. I have my own place in Wilkinson cty now and I’m so far repeating these same results.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 11:44 am to Nannyslayer
Anyone got advice for hunting WMA's? I just got out of the military and moved back home, trying to get back into it just don't have the money for a lease
Located in CENLA
Located in CENLA
This post was edited on 12/3/25 at 11:47 am
Posted on 12/3/25 at 1:06 pm to Nannyslayer
I raked up 10 gallons last week. When they arent as plentiful in the woods, well, we’ll see how well they work
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:05 pm to BabyDraco1499
quote:
Located in CENLA
You have a couple hundred thousand acres around you of good public deer hunting ground
Posted on 12/3/25 at 3:10 pm to WillFerrellisking
quote:
Maybe he’s old,
maybe he can’t walk long distances,
maybe he doesn’t own a climber,
maybe he’s hunted whole life and killed enough deer the trouble isn’t worth the reward,
maybe his club don’t let him hunt the woods
Maybe he gets cold easily
Could be a billion other reason he doesn’t “hunt” like you think he should
He doesn't have to hunt like anyone else thinks he should, but in a year there's a bumper crop of acorns, then going where the deer want to be, vs an open plowed and planted field with a feeder broadcasting corn in it for 5 seconds twice a day, wondering why you aren't seeing as much activity as previous years, taking the friendly advice of getting off the feeders and getting in the woods is going to benefit him in a chance at them before the acorns sour.
On our place, which has close to 50/50 mix of planted pine and oak bottoms, they're still coming to feeders and rice bran.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:16 pm to Da Hammer
I have had the same experience this year too. Saturday morning in 20 mph winds, I had 31 bucks feeding within 75 yards of my lockon. I was hunting a group of twenty or so big acorn trees that were left in the middle of a cutover, and some other members kept complaining about not seeing deer on the big food plots. This is the year to find hot acorn trees and hang a stand and hunt.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:27 pm to Ron Cheramie
10-4 lol was looking for more insight to what public land hunters on here like to do to optimize luck but thanks
Posted on 12/3/25 at 4:51 pm to BabyDraco1499
quote:
10-4 lol was looking for more insight to what public land hunters on here like to do to optimize luck but thanks
I hunt mainly public and to be honest I scout far more than I hunt. I have places that I know for sure I can sit and see/kill deer but I really like looking at new places. You can do a lot of scouting on Google Earth. Look for something that is different t like a habitat change. Whether that’s pines to oaks or different age class or trees or a beaver pond or whatever. If you can find where three types come together that’s money. OnX has some pretty cool info showing timber thinnings and recent burns. Those areas are usually real
Good. Basically just look for something that’s different than the rest
Time in the woods
Posted on 12/3/25 at 5:34 pm to Ron Cheramie
Hell yeah. I am more worried about catching a stray from some other cat in the woods. 
Posted on 12/3/25 at 6:52 pm to Citica8
Oh I hear ya but if he’s in a club like mine which is 99.9% pine then he has no option to find acorns.
Lucky for me I can hunt 1000’s of acres of public near my club and not worry either way.
Lucky for me I can hunt 1000’s of acres of public near my club and not worry either way.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 8:49 pm to Citica8
We are loaded with acorns (central MS) and no rain until very recently, so I know they haven’t soured, and the feeders have never seen so much activity. What I’m not seeing (and I hate to jinx myself) is the damn trash pandas that are usually rolling up at feeding time. 
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:01 pm to Nannyslayer
I always find the deer to shut down from now until the 20th....
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:19 pm to WillFerrellisking
quote:If that's the case then "too many acorns" likely isn't an issue for him.
if he’s in a club like mine which is 99.9% pine then he has no option to find acorns.
I'm not seeing acorns as an issue, our plots suck this year, most of our feeders have been damaged by bears and hogs knocking them over since last season, and are just now getting back into operation, but the deer are coming to them, they really wiped out the rice bran I put out this weekend though.
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:21 pm to Icansee4miles
I don't think the acorns have soured yet either, but the trash pandas have put up mailboxes at our feeders
Posted on 12/3/25 at 9:27 pm to Citica8
You can keep the bears with you!! haha
We slowly starting to see a lil bit more deer action on club plots verses last 2 weeks. Hopefully rain keeps falling and acorns start to rot.
We slowly starting to see a lil bit more deer action on club plots verses last 2 weeks. Hopefully rain keeps falling and acorns start to rot.
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