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2024 acorn crop

BSK

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I'm getting worried for Middle and West TN. We've got a decent Red Oak acorn crop, but after looking at dozens and dozens of White Oak branches blown out of trees in last night's storm (in Nashville), not a single acorn. For those in the Nashville Basin (including Cheatham WMA) I did see a fair amount of acorns on Chinkapin Oaks.

What are you seeing?
 
I'm seeing immature red oak acorns in West Nashville. It doesn't look good for north Humphreys unless they really come on in the next 30 days. We haven't had the rain that other areas have had, 5 inches in the last 60 days.
 
Doing an impromptu acorn survey while bushogging around farm fields in Meigs county. The white oaks had a lot on them. The pear and apple trees around here have a record number on them, limbs touching the ground.
 
When I was bush hogging my plots in Waverly a couple weeks ago, the few white oaks in the plots had acorns, but definitely not loaded like last year. I didn't get a chance to look at any in the woods.
 
Personally, I don't pay much attention to the growing acorn crop before September. Maybe I should, but then not much will I do differently, whether good or bad acorn crop.

We've got a decent Red Oak acorn crop . . . . .

Again, personally, I'd much rather see a decent Red Oak acorn crop than white.
Sure, like to have decent of both, but if habitat is being managed well, you don't have acorn-driven herd health.

My worst deer hunting tends to coincide with bumper acorn crops, which tends to not only decrease deer movement, but also tends to make more of it nocturnal. So from a hunting perspective, an average acorn crop may be the most ideal.

Last year was maybe the most massive acorn crop I've ever seen, and considering the deer density, the worst deer hunting I've ever experienced. There was just very little daylight movement, and near zero deer stepping into any more open areas until way after dark. They weren't hungry, so fields & food plots were never anything more than a midnight dessert.

My wish this year is for very mediocre crop of acorns, and mostly reds if I can have my druthers :)
 
I haven't looked crazy close yet just passing. Our crop looks average to below average on red oaks. And looks below average on white oaks. Maury county. After last years extreme bumper crop. It wouldn't hurt my feeling to see an average crop.
 
I have a white oak in my yard that usually has lots of acorns. This year nothing.
There was a peach tree on my property line that hasn't had peaches to amount to anything in over 20 years. This year it was loaded to the point it broke. Some critter ate them all over night.
 
I may take a spotting scope with me next time I go to the farm. Some of the oak branches I looked at today had only small acorns on them. Maybe I just can't see the white oak acorns yet. But it has me wondering if a small acorn now will ever make it by September.
 
I own property just north of Waverly about 10 minutes from Kentucky lake. I have to have acorns or our season sucks. The more the merrier. Funny how most hate bumper crops of acorns. I love them.
 
I own property just north of Waverly about 10 minutes from Kentucky lake. I have to have acorns or our season sucks. The more the merrier. Funny how most hate bumper crops of acorns. I love them.
I'm in the same boat. I'm down near the Buffalo and Duck River bottoms, and without an acorn crop to draw deer out of the ag bottoms up into my hardwoods, our season will suck.

With that massive bumper acorn crop last year, we had the best season we've ever had. Every hunter had killed a buck they wanted within the first two weeks of the season.
 

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