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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 15:54:51 GMT -5
Classified.
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 15:58:38 GMT -5
Shhhhhh.
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 16:13:12 GMT -5
The west edge of the managed pines, north and south of 346 holds some good deer. It’s always been a early game out there though . Bow season or bust mostly.
If you ever rejoin, I’ll spill my guts to you. I should probably shut up now though 😉
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 16:16:01 GMT -5
Yeah, we need to move this to the Spot Burner section.🤔🤔🤔
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 16:51:04 GMT -5
Yeah, we need to move this to the Spot Burner section.🤔🤔🤔 I don’t really care. I’ll likely never hunt there again. I live 2 hours away now and probably am never going back. I’ll tell someone all they want to know about Grove Park, Lochloosa, or the east side of the Ocklawaha in the ONF. Gulf Hammock has changed too much or else I’d spill the beans about there too. I’ll won’t talk much about the Osceola or anything in within 30 minutes of home. If I ever leave and retreat further into the wild (South Georgia), I’ll tell all about where I am now. |
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 17:05:27 GMT -5
I like to share too bullfrog, this area IS MY YARD though. Hence the apprehension.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 17:13:17 GMT -5
I was speaking entirely in jest, sorry if anyone was offended.
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 6, 2023 17:27:50 GMT -5
I like to share too bullfrog, this area IS MY YARD though. Hence the apprehension. That’s a reasonable concern. Based upon that I went back and edited my posts. |
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Post by 4ward on Aug 6, 2023 17:44:24 GMT -5
I read your edits and spit beer out of my nose.
No one is offended Crkr, all is well.
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Post by pinman on Aug 6, 2023 18:40:51 GMT -5
All right guys I'm getting to the end of my small knowledge of deer food sources so I saved the best for last. It's not really a great food source because it doesn't have enough protein to sustain deer so I would call it an attractant. It's been the death of many deer, mostly does and yearling bucks. It also was been the ruin of some pretty good hunters, they seem get as drawn to this food source as the deer are. They become sitters and not so much hunters and begin to believe the only way to kill deer is over this food source. This food source is primarily found on private land, in fact if you find it on public my advice is "run". When you get a safe distance from the food source call the GW, he'll appreciate it. I was going to post something similar early on in this thread but the thread became a great source of knowledge and information that I didnt want to booger it up..... |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Aug 6, 2023 19:17:56 GMT -5
The Bradford Pear, it's a popular invasive landscape plant. I've never came across one in the woods in Florida but have in Illinois. I imagine they are from old abandoned homesteads. The first one I saw in Illinois, the ground around it was stomped down with deer tracks and several scrapes under the tree. We originally thought it was a crabapple but finally figured out the Bradford Pear. We still wrongly call it the Crabapple Stand. Attachments:
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Post by ben10 on Oct 5, 2023 19:30:32 GMT -5
Water hickory? Does anyone have any knowledge of deer using this as a food source? I stumbled upon some dropping nuts the other day and had me curious, I set a camera and it’s unproductive.  |
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Post by swampdog on Oct 5, 2023 19:37:55 GMT -5
I believe hickory nuts are too hard to crack and too big to swallow. I guess they might eat those cracked open by automobiles if available.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Oct 5, 2023 19:58:39 GMT -5
Hogs can crack and eat them but I believe they're a little hard for deer.
I've read that deer will eat the smaller pig nut hickory but usually as a last resort.
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ben10
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Post by ben10 on Oct 5, 2023 20:03:22 GMT -5
Hogs can crack and eat them but I believe they're a little hard for deer. I've read that deer will eat the smaller pig nut hickory but usually as a last resort. The ones that were dropping were a little bigger than an acorn and soft. I squeezed a green one open and it popped like a pimple. It was significantly smaller than all the hickory’s I’ve seen before. |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Dec 23, 2023 15:34:30 GMT -5
I was cleaning up after last week's rain/windstorms and ran across another food source that deer seem to love, mistletoe. I had always heard that they liked it but have never really paid attention to it in the woods. Darn near every clump that I picked up had been browsed on.
To hunt over mistletoe you would need to hunt right behind recent logging operations, especially if there were water oaks knocked over during the operation.
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Post by 4ward on Dec 23, 2023 15:48:22 GMT -5
They love it. We used to zip tie it to the legs of our feeders in the fall.
They would strip it clean in a day.
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Post by meateater on Jan 16, 2024 11:24:55 GMT -5
All right guys I'm getting to the end of my small knowledge of deer food sources so I saved the best for last. It's not really a great food source because it doesn't have enough protein to sustain deer so I would call it an attractant. It's been the death of many deer, mostly does and yearling bucks. It also was been the ruin of some pretty good hunters, they seem get as drawn to this food source as the deer are. They become sitters and not so much hunters and begin to believe the only way to kill deer is over this food source. This food source is primarily found on private land, in fact if you find it on public my advice is "run". When you get a safe distance from the food source call the GW, he'll appreciate it. those are called yellow acorns, tend to drop just before archery season then a bumper crop few weeks before march 1st opening day of turkey season. i prefer only to hunt over them during small game hog season when you can find secluded 4 ft to 5ft deep holes filled with the acorns. |
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Post by drgibby on Jan 17, 2024 6:32:53 GMT -5
Seems like the price of the yellow acorns has outpaced inflation lately. Just sayin...........
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 17, 2024 7:41:40 GMT -5
Deer season is about over, the price will fall. Lol
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Post by TRTerror on Jan 19, 2024 19:35:59 GMT -5
Sounds Good !!
I'll pay 8 Bucks a bag again gladly...
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Post by drgibby on Jan 20, 2024 7:41:09 GMT -5
I must be getting old.
I can still remember thinking $3.25 seemed like a lot! LOL
Yep. I am definitely getting old................
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 20, 2024 7:51:47 GMT -5
Might see it cheap again if they quit putting it in our gas.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 28, 2024 12:42:39 GMT -5
Because of this storm there may be many new food sources for deer. I have seen deer feed heavily on the acorns of up-rooted oak trees. I've also watched deer browse on up-rooted Maple trees. I'm sure a lot of mistletoe was blown out so they will be feeding on that also.
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Post by daveyc on Sept 30, 2024 11:26:06 GMT -5
what is best acorn trees?
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Post by Crkr 23 on Sept 30, 2024 13:08:23 GMT -5
IMO, I believe live oaks are the best over the majority of the state. A lot of people will say white oak or swamp chestnut oak, but they are scarce in most of the state. Water oaks are good because they last a long time on the ground, in fact I believe deer like them better later in the year because they sweeten up a little.
Deer seem to prefer some trees over others of the same species. If you find a live oak that they are feeding on try tasting one of the acorns. A lot of times that particular tree will have sweeter acorns than the surrounding ones. Do not try a freshly fallen water oak acorn, they are very bitter but do sweeten with age.
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Post by One Man Gang on Sept 30, 2024 13:47:56 GMT -5
Outside of FL, white oak.
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Post by nuthinfancy on Sept 30, 2024 15:48:18 GMT -5
what is best acorn trees? As mentioned above, the kind with steel legs that drops em at 7am and 6pm. Kidding aside, I dont hunt over particularly over acorns since most areas I hunt they are super prevalent and it would be pointless. Now, if you can find a little oak hammock in the middle of a pine flat your golden. As long as 10 other hunters don’t intend on hunting the same hammock as is generally the case. In other words, it’s not about what kind of oak tree but location. |
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Post by stc1993 on Oct 1, 2024 15:54:20 GMT -5
We have a white oak in our yard. That thing makes thousands of acorns it seems. I'm steady pulling up small trees. Once they get over a foot tall you can't pull them. they got some roots.
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