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The common thing I hear everyone say is to find the oaks producing the most acorns and hunt them.

Just went for a walk and hot dog this year is a bumper acorn crop. There are acorns EVERYWHERE and they are the size of golf balls!!! There is no narrowing down one tree when they are all producing this good!

So my question is how do you guys hunt these areas?

I setup on the most traveled trails in between oak flats. I figured if I cant narrow down the producing trees I'll nail em in the bottle necks.
 
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Find the white oaks.

The giant acorns are the chestnut oaks and the deer tend not to favor these or the red oak acorns when there is a supply of whites around. And this year the whites are dropping heavy.

But personally, I wait for the last week of October before I get serious about hunting. The rut gets them moving regardless of the surplus of food.
 
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Like others said. Look for white oaks. They love those. I have a bunch of white oaks near my spot but there are a ton of white oaks where I hunt so I know what you mean. It is difficult to get any kind of patern on them. The last 3 days I only had 2 or 3 pics on my cam in the center of a white oak dropping like crazy. [wallmad]
 
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For best results hunt down wind where the stand starts near the thickest cover possible.
Don't hunt in the middle of the stand. It's not productive and risky getting busted and shooting when deer are all around you.
You need to catch them where they enter to feed. No different then hunting a soybean or corn field. Same strategy.
 
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What deer master said, in both posts...however, check to see what they are eating. In one place I hunt, the deer are killing the pin oaks but there is no activity around the white oaks.

Look for where the empty hulls are, and the piles of droppings, that is where you need to be regardless of the ideal of which acorn they prefer. If the deer are on the Chesnut oaks, and you are on the white oaks, you are in the wrong place.
 
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White oaks on left.
 
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Hunt a flat that sits very close to their nighttime feeding area. Whtether that is a hay field, or a cornfield thats cut etc. Theyll hang in the oaks and feed their little hearts out until dark and then putz around in the field at night.

Better yet if you find this flat with a nice pocket of brush nearby.
 
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