sleepyone
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This morning my nephew, his friend and I each sat in our own stands for several hours and saw not one deer. This was the first time we had been totally shut out in years. We have a lot of deer. Not any monster bucks but a ton of deer. I am not totally surprised as my trail camera had been showing very little activity since the first of October, which is about when the acorns started falling. Before that, my camera had 200-300 photos every couple of weeks of many does, bucks and fawns. My trail cam only had four pics from last week. One small buck and a couple of does. Prior to that in August and September, I literally had pictures of the deer looking up at the feeder waiting for it to thrown corn. I had to pick up over three bags of corn today that had been collecting from the past month. I had to turn the timer down to 2 seconds for am and pm.
Of course acorns fall every year but never in this quantity that I can recall.
We have two hundred acres covered mostly in oaks except for about 30 acres of hay fields. There must be millions of acorns. We need a good rain and some warm days to rot the acorns and a good cold spell soon or this could be a bad November. On the positive side, the deer will be nice and fat when they do decide to make an appearance. The only deer I saw today was a doe that I spooked on the way back to my trailer after the morning hunt. The temp was in the 30s this morning but had warmed up to the upper 60s by afternoon. To warm for me for hunting.
I'm in North Texas near Jacksboro. How are others faring around Texas and the country?
Of course acorns fall every year but never in this quantity that I can recall.
We have two hundred acres covered mostly in oaks except for about 30 acres of hay fields. There must be millions of acorns. We need a good rain and some warm days to rot the acorns and a good cold spell soon or this could be a bad November. On the positive side, the deer will be nice and fat when they do decide to make an appearance. The only deer I saw today was a doe that I spooked on the way back to my trailer after the morning hunt. The temp was in the 30s this morning but had warmed up to the upper 60s by afternoon. To warm for me for hunting.
I'm in North Texas near Jacksboro. How are others faring around Texas and the country?