Hunting falling oaks
-
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:08 pm
- Status: Offline
Hunting falling oaks
What is everyone's opinions on how to hunt falling acorns. Is morning better then evenings or vise versa. This is public ground that I'm talking about and i am used to hunting ag fields and not so much on acorns.. any opinions would be awesome
- Ack
- Posts: 3030
- Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:52 pm
- Location: Michigan
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Personally I'm only going to hunt near oaks/acorns if there is buck bedding nearby, or if I feel like shooting something for the freezer. Mornings are not ideal for hunting oaks because most times there will be deer already there when you walk in. Late morning/mid-day can be alright, but afternoon will be your best bet to slip in before they start feeding.
Last edited by Ack on Thu Aug 24, 2017 6:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
- Ack
- Posts: 3030
- Joined: Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:52 pm
- Location: Michigan
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Double post
- seazofcheeze
- 500 Club
- Posts: 3860
- Joined: Wed Sep 18, 2013 1:13 pm
- Location: Billings, MT
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Ack wrote:Personally I'm only going to hunt near oaks/acorns if there is buck bedding nearby, or if I feel like shooting something for the freezer. Mornings are not ideal for hunting oaks because most times there will be deer already there when you walk in. Late morning/mid-day can be alright, but afternoon will be your best bet to slip in before they start feeding.
x2
- Net Guy
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1407
- Joined: Fri Aug 04, 2017 3:18 pm
- Location: Milwaukee, WI
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I think you're best odds are the evening hunts.
- WV Bowhunter
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1629
- Joined: Thu Dec 15, 2016 5:39 pm
- Location: West Virginia
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I've busted deer out a bunch of times in years past when I thought I'd slip in on some good oaks dropping early in the morning. Had it work out a few times but never on a nice buck.
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity!!
- Boogieman1
- 500 Club
- Posts: 6590
- Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2017 11:18 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I have had my best luck on isolated oaks close to bedding at midday.
Life is hard; It’s even harder if you are stupid.
-John Wayne-
-John Wayne-
- tgreeno
- 500 Club
- Posts: 4770
- Joined: Fri Feb 19, 2016 5:06 am
- Location: WI
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Remote oaks lone oaks in marshy areas. Or on islands.
Otherwise big oak ridges I stay away from. Two many people, very little cover.
Otherwise big oak ridges I stay away from. Two many people, very little cover.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it an remove all doubt
It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid, than to open it an remove all doubt
- creepingdeth
- 500 Club
- Posts: 951
- Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2016 2:09 pm
- Facebook: Huh?
- Location: So. metro Mn
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Still somewhat new to the game but, from my experience, I'd be interested more where there is limited acorns because of a potential of acorns everywhere...its easier to predict travel patterns for a lone oak than a whole hillside. And as mentioned before the pressure from hunters on that hillside of oaks. Anything but AMs
Yesterdays common sense is no longer common
-
- Posts: 12
- Joined: Tue Aug 08, 2017 12:08 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
Thanks for all the advice. The oaks are on a hillside that drops down to the shoreline of a lake to the south and have a big crp field just to the north
- Southern Man
- 500 Club
- Posts: 3827
- Joined: Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:04 am
- Location: Extreme Western Kentucky
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I like hunting acorns. Early in the year deer will flock to them here. In my area post oak are the first to fall usually in September. Deer tear them up. White oaks are next and that usually starts around the first of October, just about the time bucks start changing patterns. Even if there's alot of acorns they seem to have preferred trees to dine at. And they will wear the gound to the dirt if you can find the right tree. When the Red Oaks start falling in late October through early November does will hit the oaks before coming to crop fields to feed. As it gets closer to rut, the bucks will follow. When they do that they will come to the oaks earlier in the day and arrive at the crop fields right at dark. I always assumed it was because of the cover around the oaks.
Oaks are great.
Oaks are great.
You Can't Argue With A Sick Mind
- Jonny
- 500 Club
- Posts: 5754
- Joined: Wed Oct 19, 2016 3:11 am
- Location: In a van down by the river
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
It just depends on the pressure in your area. I have seen very nice bucks at 9:30 feeding in oaks, and to my knowledge not near any buck beds. I have also seen plenty of deer in morning hunts. Just need to plan your access and not go tromping through the woods.
Best bet is what everybody else is saying. Evening hunts, get in early and quiet, and be close to bedding. Food sources are great hunting, but you still need to go to the deer. I have wasted lots of hunts learning that the deer don't like coming to you.
Best bet is what everybody else is saying. Evening hunts, get in early and quiet, and be close to bedding. Food sources are great hunting, but you still need to go to the deer. I have wasted lots of hunts learning that the deer don't like coming to you.
You have a monkey Mr. Munson?
-
- Posts: 21
- Joined: Sun Dec 11, 2016 5:01 am
- Location: Pennsylvania
- Contact:
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I prefer to hunt oaks in the afternoon for the same reasons that others have explained, but I will add that deer, at least where I hunt in PA, will very often just about bed under the oaks during a year with a huge mast crop. It is very difficult to get in and set up on the area where the deer are feeding. Much better if there are just a few trees dropping acorns.
I'm probably thinking about big bucks right now!
-
- 500 Club
- Posts: 1218
- Joined: Wed Oct 15, 2014 5:24 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
John eberhart has success hunting isolated oaks in thick areas. Sometimes it's a lone tree or just a few . I find hunting oaks hard if there is a good drop or abundance. It's hard to pinpoint an exact hunting location based off what trees they are feeding underc
-
- Posts: 189
- Joined: Wed Feb 22, 2017 1:20 pm
- Status: Offline
Re: Hunting falling oaks
I go in with a stand on my back and scout/ hunt until I find hot sign. Once I find a hot tree I hunt it right then. Deer in my area will come to the tree at all times of the day, but of course the more mature bucks are closer to dark. Main thing is go in prepared to hunt and get on it while it's hot. I've killed a pile of deer this way.
-
- Advertisement
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 35 guests