Really just trying to learn more about scouting and learning deer behavior...Everything I tend to find online is mainly talking about northern states with random patches of oaks... As most of you know, in texas acorns are freaking everywhere and hard to pinpoint deer habitat. How do you guys go about it? Are you looking for thick nasty stuff on the edge of oaks expecting the deer coming from the thicket? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated

I start with oaks that grow parallel along creeks. Usually have the best acorns and deer tend to cross and travel along creeks….

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What area of the state? An area with a large covering of acorn producing trees can be very difficult to hunt. Not just because the deer almost won’t visit feeders, but they just don’t move that much.

Find out every type of Oak Tree that is in your area and look up which ones the deer prefer.
Where I hunt, the White Oak Acorns are preferred by the deer and we try and target the trees that are dropping them.

I hunted a lease in Santo twelve years ago. Everyone had stands out in the fields or on food plot areas. The woods were loaded with oaks and acorns as we moved towards opening day. I put a ladder stand up in woods looking down on a draw and dry creek bed unless it rained. I was the only one seeing deer minus the occasional doe that came out to a feeder. I didn't see any shooter bucks but was seeing three or four bucks each morning and evening. It took a few days but I did get a legal buck. I knew they liked acorns much better than corn. Hunt the woods!

Simplified for you. Hunt the oak trees with a lot of fresh deer droppings and acorns under them. If there is a rub line leading to them, all the better. Play the wind.

I was invited to hunt with a group in Llano. A large crop of acorns were on the ground. We all went to the blinds and each feeder had a pile of untouched corn under them. Nobody was seeing anything. On the last hunt of our trip I didn't go to the blind. I parked the jeep in an open area and glassed all around. I saw them crossing from one oak mott to another and set up nearby. I was the only hunter in our group that got a deer on that trip.

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try to find the funnels in the terrain or topography and hunt those pinch points

White oak acorns are like ice cream to deer because they taste sweeter to them. I once hunted with a guy who would pick up white oak acorns from his yard and scatter them in his food plot. He could never find any of them the next time he hunted it. And I will admit I've done the same with those I can find in the public areas of my subdivision and taken them to my lease where there are no white oaks.

My 133 acres is just about all oak covered. However, I feed corn year around. They still come to the feeders

Hunt the white oak trees, they'll eat these first.

Put out peanuts. Deer will walk over the acorns to get to them.

Truth here, but finding that (golden) tree might take some scouting.
I hunted a place a few years back that was covered in acorn producing trees, and I stumbled upon this old oak that had trails leading to it from all directions kind of like the spokes on a wagon wheel.
There was droppings in piles everywhere and rubs and scrapes nearby as well.
That lone tree attracted all kinds of wildlife and the grass and ground was torn up around that old oak.
I sat there after finding that tree and made a makeshift brush blind within bow range and took a heavy 7 point the next morning.
The deer would walk right past trees that were dropping the same acorns and zero in on that one tree.
That was a season I'll not forget!

At my last lease, it was a perfect set up..On the west was a 200 acre oat pasture, then traveling east about 350 yards following a creek bed to a 20 acre oak grove, continue east another 50 yards to a water hole. I set up a feeder 35 yards north of the oak grove in the middle of a pasture using a product called STAMPEDE, a corn/roasted soy bean mixture. To me, this was an ideal set up drawing in some above average bucks and lots of doe. The deer would often bed in the oak grove and were almost constant in that area year-round.

Went for several walks on the place this weekend, at first light and last light. My Mills county deer were grouping under live oaks, working the acorns pretty hard. It's good if they're cleaning them up this early.