It was slow after the acorn crop hit the ground and not enough rain to sour the acorns.

yes

Yeah knid of figured that had a lot to do with it.

ours wasn't so much the acorns as everything else. After it cooled off, everything just kept getting greener & greener and the weather wasn't cold enough on a consistant basis to do anything about it. Hope the trend continues because 2 good years of antler growth could do a lot of good for some that should be shooters next year.

Damn, your not far from our place either. We have about 1300 acres a few miles away of 787.

As for hunting in east Texas this year, It wasn't horrible on either of our places. The 1300 we have behind our property we saw plenty of deer and took a few good bucks. I saw deer almost every time i went out. Our other place is 7000+ in Polk county outside Corrigan. We didn't make our buck quota for MLD #'s, but we saw and still shot plenty. I'm too selective on what i shoot so i passed up a LOT of bucks to see what they could be next year. Saw 5+ deer almost every time out there. Overall it was a slow year, but we still saw them, just not the ones we wanted to shoot. And when we did see the ones on the hit list, they were either too far and didn't feel comfortable taking the shot or were moving too quick to get a shot. Hopefully the ones we passed this year will be much better next year.