Basically, what I'm seeing Popcorn. I'm just praying some of the Reds/Blacks are still holding on to their viable acorns and they will trickle out of the trees over the next month or so.Very few acorns of any variety in the Stewart and Trigg county farms I work. Low percentage of them viable.
We've got virtually nothing in westcentral TN.
Non existent mast crop, drought ruined food plots, native browse absent …Basically, what I'm seeing Popcorn. I'm just praying some of the Reds/Blacks are still holding on to their viable acorns and they will trickle out of the trees over the next month or so.
Something tells me whatever growth I get in my food plots (and they're doing OK so far, but a couple more weeks without rain and they'll be in trouble) is going to get mowed down pretty fast. One of the years where the plots are lip high all season.Non existent mast crop, drought ruined food plots, native browse absent …
Gonna be rough overwinter in some areas. It would be a good year to thin them doe!
With the already lack luster antler development/ lack of improvement year over year at best I may just wait till December and just consume some doe tags. I see nothing impressive on camera which also means any decent 3.5 year old will be taken out by others