eidsvolling wrote: We have a bumper acorn crop everywhere there are oaks, an antlered deer-only season until Oct. 1, and a forecast high today of 86. I’ll be home today working instead of hunting. 🙁
That makes it tough to hunt on acorns unless there are more than one type. Then you might notice a preference to one type. Otherwise you have to go to plan B and hunt the breaks. No matter where you are there should be breaks in topography, breaks in type of timber, breaks in vegetation. And there will be natural funnels within those breaks. Once found they work year after year. Around here the edge of a break between hardwoods and pine is a natural travel corridor. Locating travel corridors along break lines may be the ticket. I once found a place in an endless hardwood bottom where a tornado or wind shear had pushed down about an acre of trees. This caused new growth to pop up as the trees rotted down. I got a good 10 or so years out of that spot. Deer loved to move through and around it and I loved to hang my stand beside it. Well thats my 2 cents, good luck with your hunt.
