Heavy / Medium / Light?

Just wondering if you had your rathers in mast crop would it be heavy, light or something in between?

I think in between would be my choice.

Like to see an average year, then it's easier to pin down what trees the deer are hammering.

For me the more the better. I like the acorns

I agree Robert, I like the acorns too.....

With to many acorns and them falling from every oak in the area the deer seem to not move much at all around here. Dinner just falls from the tree right to them in thier beds. It seems like if we get a descent acorn crop we can pin down the oaks that are producing the best and hunt them. When there is very little acorn crop the deer tend to eat them up in a few days then be done with them not giving us to much of a window to capitalize on it.

Camoed Assassin wrote:

Like to see an average year, then it's easier to pin down what trees the deer are hammering.

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I like to see heavy mast crop. Give them plenty of food in the timber where I spend a lot of my tree time. I've also noticed deer tend to go after the easy pickins first and that brings them round my kill plot for some acorns and greens.

I will take an average year. I just finished making a new acorn attractant and want them looking for me.

more food makes fat deer I can't eat horns

On my family farm here in MD there is one oak tree that seems to produce just about every year so I would almost prefer them to be light to between just because I know this one tree will produce and they will be there if they can not find them else where.

Looks like we are going to have a bumper crop this year here in Tn. In 2008 a late frost mid April killed off most of the mast crop west of the Cumberland Plateau. I saw more good bucks that year than ever before. I concluded that they were having to travel more to find food. So I prefer medium to light for that reason.

I would agree that if you had property that held good bedding area's, the more the acorns the better. I figure that as hard as it is to get a good buck to move in the daylight in the early season, if you could find a bedding area adjacent to some productive oaks then your chances of catching the deer with shooting light greatly increases. With the right wind of course. I dont want to get near that bedding area with out the perfect breeze. Not to mention it can keep the deer from traveling to far from his core area to find another hunters arrow.

I like more acorns.Most of the white oaks on the farm are in one paticular area.

Here in Ohio we had a bumper crop of mast this year, and the kill numbers were down according to the ODNR due to this. I know I didn't see as many deer this year due to the deer not having to move to find food, so I would prefer to see a medium to light acorn crop.

I prefer a medium to light. Because deer will have to move to find food.

seems as if they mve more to find food when it is light year, on the flip side i have no fields to hunt so bring on the acrons.. all i got is oak hardwwods and ridges