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Post by boonechaser on Aug 20, 2014 13:46:32 GMT -5
Was out this morning bush hogging. Noticed lot's of oak's sporting acorn's. That's a good thing.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 13:56:39 GMT -5
It's a great thing on my property! Mast is my only food source. Some guys who hunt a lot of fields and food plots may curse acorns.  |
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Post by boonechaser on Aug 20, 2014 14:45:15 GMT -5
Do lot's of food plot's, but seldom hunt over them. Can't ever provide enough food for the deer. Mostly hunt staging area's back in timber away from the food plot's. If I hunt over a plot it's usually just to take a doe.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 15:03:13 GMT -5
My little 33 acre property is all woods. I'd like to have a food plot but that is WAY down the road since it will take a ton of work to clear a place. I do have plenty of good oaks though. They dropped just enough last year to put me in the chips for deer activity in mid October. Without acorns, I probably wouldn't have seen 1/4 of the deer I did. I'm hoping for a bumper mast crop this year.
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Post by drs on Aug 21, 2014 4:30:49 GMT -5
My little 33 acre property is all woods. I'd like to have a food plot but that is WAY down the road since it will take a ton of work to clear a place. I do have plenty of good oaks though. They dropped just enough last year to put me in the chips for deer activity in mid October. Without acorns, I probably wouldn't have seen 1/4 of the deer I did. I'm hoping for a bumper mast crop this year. Around 80% of my 83 acre property is also heavy DEEP woods. Which means that a heavy acorn crop usually means Deer will be in the woods more than in my back field & not moving much. However, I've been seeing several Deer mostly Bucks out in the field during early morning or just before sundown. My back field contains mostly orchard grass, birds foot tree foil, black berry, and assorted other grasses and woody browse for them to feed on. |
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Post by boonechaser on Aug 21, 2014 13:46:15 GMT -5
Met rent a small dozer for a day. A guy can do alot of damage in 1 day with a small dozer, plus they are fun as all get out to run.  (Do you have any logging road's.) I till up and plant some of my logging road's. Natural travel area's and good way to get some food source's planted. You are pretty close to me I believe? I'm 10 min's from rising sun. I have equipment if you ever need some help. Got a small MF 135 and a 3 pt. tiller for tight to get into place's or logging road's. Makes quick work of them. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2014 17:08:05 GMT -5
Yeah, my place about 2 or 3 miles from where Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, and Switzerland Counties converge. I look down into Ohio County when Im up on my ridge. It's only a couple hundred yards from my line to the Ohio County line. I'm on the Dearborn County side of Laughery Creek just about a mile from the red bridge...if you know where that is.
I do have a logging road up on the back side of my property near the Powerline cut. It's actually an old county road bed, they tell me. It cuts through the NW corner of my place for about a quarter mile. I also own a piece of the Powerline clearing. I guess I could make that work for a food plot. Thanks for the idea!
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Post by henson59 on Aug 22, 2014 9:33:33 GMT -5
man Boone we are close to each other! I am about 3 minutes west of Aberdeen.
Our acorn mast is looking good this year as well. We have a few ridge lines that are full of oak trees and one of the ridges leads right into one of our food plots so it is a huge travel area for us in October.
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Post by ms660 on Aug 23, 2014 11:43:49 GMT -5
The saw tooth oaks I planted 15 years ago are loaded up with acorns this year. I just wish I had planted them where I hunt instead of my side yard. I picked up several gallons last year and dumped them in front of my game cameras. One old doe and her two fawns stood there and pretty well munched down a 5 gallon bucket full without leaving the pile.
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Post by drs on Aug 24, 2014 4:29:19 GMT -5
The saw tooth oaks I planted 15 years ago are loaded up with acorns this year. I just wish I had planted them where I hunt instead of my side yard. I picked up several gallons last year and dumped them in front of my game cameras. One old doe and her two fawns stood there and pretty well munched down a 5 gallon bucket full without leaving the pile. Yes, Saw tooth Oaks or "Korean Oak", are a very desirable tree to plant for Deer & other wildlife species. Had several planted on my place up in Indiana, which I planted some 30 years ago. They start producing acorns when they are < 20 years old, and they sure drew in the Deer. |
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Post by throbak on Aug 24, 2014 11:00:15 GMT -5
The saw tooth oaks I planted 15 years ago are loaded up with acorns this year. I just wish I had planted them where I hunt instead of my side yard. I picked up several gallons last year and dumped them in front of my game cameras. One old doe and her two fawns stood there and pretty well munched down a 5 gallon bucket full without leaving the pile. Yes, Saw tooth Oaks or "Korean Oak", are a very desirable tree to plant for Deer & other wildlife species. Had several planted on my place up in Indiana, which I planted some 30 years ago. They start producing acorns when they are < 20 years old, and they sure drew in the Deer. For both of you Sawtooth Oaks are considered Invasive and can be a threat to our Native Oaks NOT RECOMMENDED |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 11:14:57 GMT -5
I pulled camera cards yesterday and was very happy to see some fresh white oak acorns on the ground. That's the good stuff!
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Post by ukwil on Aug 24, 2014 12:58:18 GMT -5
Dad has a large red oak in his yard and a large number of its acorns are hitting the ground already. Gonna be a good year.
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Post by dbd870 on Aug 24, 2014 17:49:15 GMT -5
Acorns are looking good here as well.
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Post by drs on Aug 25, 2014 4:35:25 GMT -5
Yes, Saw tooth Oaks or "Korean Oak", are a very desirable tree to plant for Deer & other wildlife species. Had several planted on my place up in Indiana, which I planted some 30 years ago. They start producing acorns when they are < 20 years old, and they sure drew in the Deer. For both of you Sawtooth Oaks are considered Invasive and can be a threat to our Native Oaks NOT RECOMMENDED Throbak, the Korean Oaks I planted never got out of hand and spread, choking out native trees or other Oak species. Do you have a weblink showing this, as I would be interested in reading how they are invasive. |
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Post by throbak on Aug 28, 2014 7:34:56 GMT -5
they produce acorns so much quicker and grow so much faster they can be shading out ang producing acorns before the natives have a chance to mature where are all the acorns from you Koreans going a squirrel could carry one off bury it it could have matured and crowded out native white oaks befor they have a chance and you wouldn't even know it alsoa lot of our invasive threats to come from asia Japanese Honey suckle,amure honeysuckle , tree of heaven Japanese stilt grass Japanese chaff flower, asian carp, asian lady bugs,burning bush, callory pear,garlic mustard autume Olive, Korean lespedesea, fescue you starting to see a pattern here all are threats to our native plants WHY TAKE A CHANCE IMO oh and I forgot a couple more ..Thousand cancers disease, Japanese bean beetles, Emerald ash borers, asian long horn beetle ...ALL from asia
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Post by drs on Aug 28, 2014 9:58:02 GMT -5
they produce acorns so much quicker and grow so much faster they can be shading out ang producing acorns before the natives have a chance to mature where are all the acorns from you Koreans going a squirrel could carry one off bury it it could have matured and crowded out native white oaks befor they have a chance and you wouldn't even know it alsoa lot of our invasive threats to come from asia Japanese Honey suckle,amure honeysuckle , tree of heaven Japanese stilt grass Japanese chaff flower, asian carp, asian lady bugs,burning bush, callory pear,garlic mustard autume Olive, Korean lespedesea, fescue you starting to see a pattern here all are threats to our native plants WHY TAKE A CHANCE IMO oh and I forgot a couple more ..Thousand cancers disease, Japanese bean beetles, Emerald ash borers, asian long horn beetle ...ALL from asia In a certain way, I see your point throbak. However, some of these introduced species of plants have actually helped the growth of our Deer herd nation wide. The insects, you left out the Asian Lady Bug which flies in hoards down here in October. The other insects and fish came here due to Free trade agreement like NAFTA & GATT. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2014 10:43:50 GMT -5
The introduction of honeysuckle certainly had a positive effect on American country music! |
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Post by drs on Aug 28, 2014 11:08:43 GMT -5
The introduction of honeysuckle certainly had a positive effect on American country music! I like the fragrance of wild honeysuckle. |
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Post by ms660 on Aug 28, 2014 19:28:10 GMT -5
Yes, Saw tooth Oaks or "Korean Oak", are a very desirable tree to plant for Deer & other wildlife species. Had several planted on my place up in Indiana, which I planted some 30 years ago. They start producing acorns when they are < 20 years old, and they sure drew in the Deer. For both of you Sawtooth Oaks are considered Invasive and can be a threat to our Native Oaks NOT RECOMMENDED Take me somewhere and show me actual proof( not a copy and paste search from google) that a ST oak has harmed any native oak. My ST oaks are second generation trees that came from the state tree farm in Vallonia. Old Ben Coal planted 1000's ST oaks in reclaimed areas. I just found that one of my ST oaks has produced a third generation. I found a 2" seedling today that has survived my lawn mower by sprouting in with some raspberry Here is one of my ST oaks beside a Pin oak that both were planted by me the same day 15-16 years ago and the Pin oak is doing just fine living beside the ST. The ST has been producing acorns , the Pin oak nothing yet and I doubt that I will live to see it make any acorns   |
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(Do you have any logging road's.) I till up and plant some of my logging road's. Natural travel area's and good way to get some food source's planted. You are pretty close to me I believe? I'm 10 min's from rising sun. I have equipment if you ever need some help. Got a small MF 135 and a 3 pt. tiller for tight to get into place's or logging road's. Makes quick work of them.
