a different buck

i have seen this one a few times on camera , he is a bit older buck and pretty heavy horned . i do know the one i saw the other morning across the pasture was a big mature animal , but at 500 yards or more at first light all i could tell was he was a big mature buck with a decent rack on top .
i don't think it was the one on camera though as it was a light colored rack .
and of course the pigs are still hanging around in numbers as well .
still haven't seen something i just have to try to kill deer wise but we are seeing quite a few deer with a large portion of them like always out there being bucks .
out of the 10 we saw the other morning at least 5 were horned deer .
setting up a deer only feed area soon and began last weekend ,
about 3 to 1 buck to does ratio seems to be the thing out there ?
and yes my one little cottontail seems to be getting mature as well :Rofl
one thing for certain i have a bumper crop of acorns to beat the band this year ,so its likely to be slow at the feed locations until they are gone.....early winter should be rocking with fat happy deer is my thoughts:highfive

Nice for buck for sure. The sausage on the hoof don't look bad either.

Oh my gosh you have acorns like we do. Tons and tons of them.
It will make the hunting harder this year in my are, because they don't have to move to get a belly full!
Looks like you've got plenty of bacon on the hoof!

according to the old timers. Lots of acorns means bad winter

Nice pictures. I seem to have better luck on the year we have lost of acorns. They don't come out of the thick stuff without acorns. The seem to have favorite trees they like to eat under, I guess they taste better and they eat them first.

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Nice pictures. I seem to have better luck on the year we have lost of acorns. They don't come out of the thick stuff without acorns. The seem to have favorite trees they like to eat under, I guess they taste better and they eat them first.

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this is a true for sure , I used to hunt in east Arkansas many years ago and the buddy who got me on the hunt club showed me how to pick a certain group of oaks , those white oaks had deer coming from every direction when the acorns started to fall I tell ya

Funny how they will walk over some acorns to get to others

I seen em walk across an entire open pasture here in texas to go to one lone oak out in a field and eat acorns , with the woods all around raining acorns . I had to go see what was so special about them myself and when I got there , I was amazed . the ground was flat covered with tiny little black pea sized acorns .
I read articles that said from tree to tree the flavor varies and from species of oak to oak as well, I think native americans preferred white oaks to eat and I know deer do the same . I also know red oaks are the last of the acorns to get eaten in these parts and have heard they are extra bitter .
I had the guys in Arkansas tell me to fertilize with ground spikes the oak trees the deer went to in the fall .

I've noticed from one area to the next they prefer different acorns to. I hunt 2 different management areas and my club and they prefer different acorns at each. One management area it's white oaks the other is about 50 50 white and red my club it's mountain oaks. Now mine you these 3 places are spread over half the state. Seen the same with food plots. Some places they prefer one thing of the other and some things work everywhere like oats. I've hunted over sawtooth oaks before and I think they might be the best thing I've ever hunted around to. If I ever get my own place I will definitely plant some sawtooths

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I think them saw tooths are called cow oaks or water oaks in these parts ,but around here they only grow close to a good size river . they may also be something we have called bur oaks I think ? or then again it may be 3 different oaks ….all I know for sure is the big ole baseball sized acorns are always near a big river in these parts