All this food...

[growalot]

You'd think I'd be happy ...but every where I turn I find another producing oak...Todays rains made it a good morning to go in and get some way late work done...walking back I notice theseand pounds more on the ground...look up and nestled between two maples I noticed a for gotten oak...It is loaded with acorns this size and bigger and easy to see through all the leafs...the least little pressure we may never see a deer..unless prime rut...I'm actually getting anxious about it..though I know the transition between heavy cover and heavy mast are places I will be set up......hhhmmm bear hunting isn't going to be a happy time for me either...best go down and check the honey tree at camp....Sorry for blurr in a hurry ..but thats a quarter

[G-Man]

After last year this is a cornucopia of food for game, hard,soft mast is everywhere!. Make hunting tougher for sure. But gold to see some mast after several years of low/none

[Doc]

It all depends on the layout of your woodlots. Around us, on properties that have received a lot of logging pressure, what has been left is spotty isolated oak stands. I have seen other areas that are massive and wide-spread where heavy acorn crops can be a problem. In those areas, if I can find some white oaks that are bearing, I can kind of predict that those will be frequented quite heavily at some point in the season. Not only that, but there never is only one source of deer food, and I find that even with heavy acorn production, they still will visit the apple trees and a few grass-lots on their feeding circuit.

[Cabin Fever]

Be thankful you have oaks! There are NO oaks in the ~1 mile or so around me! I've always asked property owners in the area, but no one has any oaks or is even aware of any in the entire area! I've planted several dozen gobbler sawtooth oaks, and a few are doing well. It will still take several years (they claim 5-9 years?) to produce acorns though. I have one that is doing extremely well and produced tiny buttons that look like acorn "caps" this year, so hopefully that one will start producing soon.

 

I am blessed with many crabapple and wild pear trees, and my property is surrounded with ag crops (soybeans and corn) EVERY year. I also have a huge apple orchard on one side. I also provide them with clover, chicory, and some alfalfa in my plots. Never a shortage of food for the critters, as they have quite the buffet to choose from!

[G-Man]

your gobbler oaks are setting nuts for next year! That's good!