Hickory nuts

[Shorty]

No acorns here, NONE!  But, I've never seen so many hickory nuts.  They're raining down on my house and vehicles like a Texas hail storm!  I hear them hitting the ground with a thud like a golf ball.  'Need a hard-hat just to go out in the yard.  :wink:
The summer started out wet and then turned hot and dry.  Must be what the hickories like and the oaks don't.  :roll:
'Haven't had any deer on the property either.  They may eat acorns but only the squirrels eat hickory nuts.

[Mikey]

Shorty - this eyar we have acorns in upstate NY - didn't ahve many last year and the year before didn't see any at all.  I understand they grow in 3 yr cycles - none the first year, light the 2nd year but in the 3rd year they are plentiful.  At least that is what it seems to be like here.  Maybe next year you will have a heavier crop of nuts and the whitetail will come back.  

I have also found that squirrel hunting and turkey hunting will leave a lot more food on the ground for the deer - works for me.  HTH.  Mikey.

[1911crazy]

Someone told me here when there is a good supply of nuts the deer stay deep in the woods. Thats why you don't see them.  Lastyear there was less nuts/apples so the deer/bear were in the corn fields looking for food.

I have a story for your about the food on the ground.  I was walking hunting blackbear and stopped with my cousin so he could light up a smoke.(cigarette)  We stood there at the bottom of an old apple orchard near some low to the ground pines.  When all of a sudden a snowshoe rabbit took off from the tree near me. This rabbit was so big it couldn't zig zag it ran in a straight line away from me.  I put the 444 on his butt and was going to but why waste the meat i let it go. But for a split second it scared the bejesus out of me.  But i had the 444 on it quicker than stink on a skunk. Man those rabbits are big.