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Lil Red, it amazes me how much deer like acorns. A farm we had leased for 10 years had 500 acres of corn and beans, rotated. A hundred acres of alfalfa. And 650 acres of oak timber and cattle pasture mixed.
Early bow season, they would attack the alfalfa. Only thing that would compete was honeysuckle, of all things. I had the best of both worlds. I had a stand on a trail that always produced good bucks in some brush along the alfalfa field and right in the middle of a huge honeysuckle patch. A bowhunters dream. Early and late and with a light, you could see huge numbers of deer in the alfalfa. (this place was loaded with deer anyway) But during the day, it amazed me how many deer browsed on that honeysuckle, just yards away from the alfalfa field. They loved it and felt secure just inside the brush a little ways.
Then of course, they liked the crops around harvest. But when those big ole white oak acorns started to fall, you might as well kiss it all goodbye and hunt acorns totally. It seemedd like it was cotton candy to those deer.
I know they eat them everywhere, but always thought that was a prime example, given the smorgasboard of food those particular deer had. The acorns won every single time.
Andy
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