Along with the 3 Chestnut trees and 4 Burr Oaks that I planted earlier, I planted 20 Chinkapin and Black oak seedlings along the first 1/4-mile of the driveway.

The deer that we harvested this year were full of grapes, alfalfa and acorns.

Far better to plant forage IMO, in my area forage chicory is an awesome base with some clover and brassicas mixed in. Radishes/turnips get eaten into winter but they hammer the chicory all summer/fall. In our area (WI) there’s a lot of oak, but it seems to only last a month or so before all the critters have them cleaned up or squirreled away.

Frank:

Friend Joe has set a tub of salt mixed minerals in his yard.

The place is full of muley's nearly every day except when the mtn lions and bears are around.

He gets things in 50lb blocks for cattle.

Just a thought. Wish you well with it.

George

Thanks,

I have a neighbor with two big food plots right on my boundary line and I have three mineral block sites scattered near watering/feeding stations.

The deer here have unlimited access to various feed crops, but will come from all over the area to the oak trees when the acorns fall.

My burr oaks are growing:

If you are depending of the trees production to be an attractant, I hope you are a young man.
I would scatter some food plots about on the property if you have room.

All this work is for the kids and grandkids. I'm just the steward of this land.

Two months after planting 12-16" bare root Chestnut seedlings:

Where I live well fertilized food plots draw deer the best .even with a good white oak acorn crop the deer will still hit the food plots in shooting hours. Cereal grain plots will pretty much be ignored if not fertilized. They can tell where the nutrition is. Security cover is probably the most important thing.

Driving through western Kentucky going to hunt kansas I never saw so many nice big deer dead on the highway .

My neighbor has 140 acres and has food plots set up all over, some of them 50 yards frpm my property line.

I'm going to put a food plot in on the opposite side of my property, in a clearing in the woods.