I was looking for acorns just a few days ago and didn't see only on the trees. (Ohio) Where I hunt when the acorns fall the deer are there. Deer give up cornfields, soy fields and alfalpha fields and even my feeder to hit the acorns.

I've noticed while deer are feeding on acorns they will follow the sound of an acorn hitting the ground. I've always thought if this could somehow be made into a deer call of sorts...

I too have found a bumber crop this year, and had difficulty finding deer. My guess is that they are feeding very near their beds. In a bad acorn year, i hunt acorns, in a good year, you must be more specific than that!

Plentiful acorns can make it tough, no doubt. It's always easier to pattern deer (and hogs) if the food sources are relatively isolated, so a woods full of acorns is not always a positive sign. Even so, it gets the animals up and feeding, and this change in pattern can actually work out to the hunter's advantage, as you'll see more animals in places where they were scarce before.

In CA, where I do most of my hunting these days, a good acorn crop serves a second, better purpose... it provides good nutrition for growth, which translates into more, healthy babies next season. With the herds declining in much of the state due to habitat loss, drought, and lion predation, a bumper crop of food for the fall and winter is a welcome sight indeed!

Buckhunter, I have an issue of Outdoor Life (or Field & Stream) from several years ago, where the writer suggested pocketing a fistful of pebbles before climbing into a treestand. Then when you're up there, drop the pebbles one by one so that it mimics the sound of acorns dropping. I don't know if this method works, but it sure sounds like sage advice.

Here in NY, we had snow in October, for the first time in several decades. It was also suggested that a bumper crop of acorns means that it's going to be a long, cold, snowy winter.

Here in Kentucky,if you find a stand of White Oaks,you will find the deer.The mast here isn't as bountiful as it was 2-years ago,but they are still hittin' the ground!

Here in the south alabama to be exact there is a good acorn crop again this is the second year in a row and my opinion it makes it harder to patteren bucks because they can step out of there bedding areas and not have to go 40 yards to feed and go rite back to bed another thing i noticed is the bucks tend to feed later when we have a good acorn crop when they dont have to move as far they dont move till rite at dark which you have to be so close to the bedding area it makes it ten times harder to set up on a area and get into with out him knowing your there and to make things harder we had so much rain this year that they dont have to move far for water either dont get me wrong we need the rain and its good for the wildlife and food plots it just narrows your chances down to connect on a good buck i guess a lot of acorns is great for the deer and turkeys for nuetrition and body weight and to keep the herds healthy
so i guess my opinion its great for the deer it just makes hunting them more of a challenge which is alright for me if it was easy it would probly take some of the passion and thrill out of the hunt,to all of you good luck and happy hunting!!!

...and to jsobrien, this is rowan county right smack in the middle of NC. This is not an old article. The white oaks are loaded this year. i have yet to find a white oak on our lease without acorns, which is making it difficult.

link that works

http://www.salisburypost.com/Sports/101309-outdoors-deer-hunting-acorns-...