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<blockquote data-quote="willystruck" data-source="post: 1999041" data-attributes="member: 10468"><p></p></blockquote><p>I'm not sure exactly what they're eating or where they're watering right now. I've been on our lease 14 years and the creek has flowed every single year except this year. Last year it didn't start flowing until November, but it did start flowing. This year it's not flowed at all. This is hilly NEOK, so there is a a large lake on an adjoining property and several spring-fed creeks on adjoining properties. All our ponds are dry, save for a scummy puddle of 2" stagnant water. They could easily water at the big lake, a spring, etc, all very close to us. </p><p></p><p>Mainly I think it's the acorns killing us. All my best spots are acorn flats/ridgetops, and on a normal year you can't keep the deer off them. This year you have to hunt to find a single acorn, and when you cut it open it's rotten inside. I don't seen them having much motivation to frequent my areas with nothing to eat or drink. Usually the acorn flats hold the does and the does bring the bucks in during the rut. I mean we've seen slim acorn years, but like I say I have 14 years there and the other guys have over 20 and we've never seen anything like this.[/QUOTE]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Same problem here. I hunt a bottom crossing area between 2 ridges. Normally I'm crunching acorns as I walk in and out. This year I haven't found any fresh acorns in the bottom or on the ridges. Normally I'm over run with does and haven't seen a one this year. Finally managed to drop a buck this morning. Would have been a nice 8 but all he had on one side was a broken stub and one huge brow tine.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="willystruck, post: 1999041, member: 10468"] [/QUOTE]I'm not sure exactly what they're eating or where they're watering right now. I've been on our lease 14 years and the creek has flowed every single year except this year. Last year it didn't start flowing until November, but it did start flowing. This year it's not flowed at all. This is hilly NEOK, so there is a a large lake on an adjoining property and several spring-fed creeks on adjoining properties. All our ponds are dry, save for a scummy puddle of 2" stagnant water. They could easily water at the big lake, a spring, etc, all very close to us. Mainly I think it's the acorns killing us. All my best spots are acorn flats/ridgetops, and on a normal year you can't keep the deer off them. This year you have to hunt to find a single acorn, and when you cut it open it's rotten inside. I don't seen them having much motivation to frequent my areas with nothing to eat or drink. Usually the acorn flats hold the does and the does bring the bucks in during the rut. I mean we've seen slim acorn years, but like I say I have 14 years there and the other guys have over 20 and we've never seen anything like this.[/QUOTE] Same problem here. I hunt a bottom crossing area between 2 ridges. Normally I'm crunching acorns as I walk in and out. This year I haven't found any fresh acorns in the bottom or on the ridges. Normally I'm over run with does and haven't seen a one this year. Finally managed to drop a buck this morning. Would have been a nice 8 but all he had on one side was a broken stub and one huge brow tine. [/QUOTE]
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