Early Season ACORNS - Good or Worthless? 

Catman delivers again. Thanks for taking the time to go into detail.and actually get to the nitty-gritty. I have not seen or heard of any other RU-vid hunter talk about this at all. Thanks again for showing us how to not waste our time in the woods!!!

Hi Catman. I’d like to add from my experience on finding the early “ hot” or what I call sweet oaks the deer will be hitting...... watch for oak trees that squirrels and especially birds are working. Several jays and other birds working in a oak tree will let you know the tree they are working is a sweet or desirable flavor/quality that the animals prefer. Plus they knock a lot of the nuts to the ground as well. I’ve killed a many of deer using the birds working a single preferred oak, setting up on it, and killing deer. Was really good at it when I was younger. Not so much these days. I really enjoy all your videos. Good luck.

This might possibly be the single most important scouting tip I've ever received. Thanks Catman! Other Hunters have spoken on Acorns but it's always been,Find an Oak thats dropping them. Never had anyone break down exactly how to tell if their mostly good or bad. See it's those simple,common sense things that most Hunters miss. Thanks again!

@4:40 you finally slipped up and pronounced it the right (Tennessean) way! 😂 Good info on the wormy acorns. I’m sure deer can smell them just like we can smell rotten meat.

Keep up the great work catman, I have learned so much from your videos. No one has ever explained which acorns are good and which ones are bad. Thanks for putting in the time to make your videos

My favorite you tuber.Catman knows his stuff.Thanks Catman!!!

Thats just nuts !!!!! Good tutorial Catman Good luck

Nice educational video. You did great and I learned from this. Keep up the good work you’re making a difference in the outdoor world.

Great tips! Virginia opener is tomorrow morning! Can't wait and won't sleep tonight woohoo!

Catman has woodsmanship 👍

The Deer gobble the Chestnut acorns up here in Georgia where I hunt . If you find a tree dropping those acorns it’s a guarantee you will see Deer sign around that tree. Great info Catman.

Awesome Tip Catman! Something that NO one has covered

Deer prefer white acorns. The don't have the tannins in them that make the acorn bitter. White oaks can be easily found by looking at the tree leaves. They will be rounded with no sharp points. Red oaks have pointy leaves. The acorns in these have much more tannins, making the acorns more bitter. Deer will leave these on the ground longer and let the sun and rain leach the tannins out of the acorn. Then they will eat them. Catman, great content! Health of the acorn is just as important as the points I made above. Keep it up!

Hey man great content , I never considered that the acorns I was looking at might not be any good thanks for getting my wheels turning thanks, and best of luck to you this season 🏹🦌👍

Nice tip bro! Thats the trees defense for shedding portions of growth that wont benefit it anymore. In Beaufort, SC we have Live Oaks, water oaks, Laurel oaks and willow oaks all started to drop. Deer dont even come out of the timber. You better get in the woods scout below oak groves and look for deer chewed acorns and pawed ground. Good luck this season Catman!!

Great info Catmam !!

I appreciate your insight Catman. Here in southeast Va. it’s been a couple years since a good acorn crop. Hopefully this year will be plentiful.

Hey Catman, I'd love to see you do one on identifying different types of oak trees, leaves, bark, nuts, tannins content, etc, not just finding acorns that aren't rotten. Most hunters, young and old, never educate themselves on food sources and why deer prefer certain types of nuts over others, they just find acorns and set up, then wonder why they're not seeing deer. Where I'm hunting deer will walk right past a ton of chestnut oak acorns just to hit a single white oak, tell your viewers why! Great video but would love to see you go more in depth on early season food sources ( for your area). Fine job my friend on your channel and keep on keeping it real!! Good luck hunting!

Fantastic tip. When squirrel hunting with my dad he taught me to look for good acorns without weevils, as he called them, if I recall, but he wasn’t nearly as comprehensive in how to tell the good from the bad without showing me to pull out my pocket knife and try to, as you say, keep from cutting myself. So you said if still in the cap and/or mixed green/brown or light in weight, they’re likely wormy. Great observation. Gotta get on some good red oak acorns this afternoon. Thanks a bunch, man. Great video!

Great tip, Catman!

I was sitting in my stand the other day thinking this exact thing... how do i know if they're good maybe they fell because they're rotten... Thanks man always a pleasure

Thanks for that man. I did not know the difference.

Great advice! Never really thought about it but makes complete sense. Thanks!

Thanks Catman for the info. I did not know that.

I was wondering what a tree was the other day hunting with large acorns. You cleared it up for me we don't have many here. Was a chestnut acorn tree. Now I know.

I hunted a WMA on the eastern side the past two days, and the white oaks are raining down from certain trees. They seemed to be keying on the sawtooth acorns though... I hunted over persimmons, and had a few coming in. My buddy who was hunting the sawtooth was covered all day. Just seems to be really random and sporadic right now. Agree with you also on the chestnut oaks... I have a bunch on my farm, but the deer rarely eat them unless all other varieties are absent.

South Louisiana looking for acorn trees and planting foodplots today in joy your videos

Thanks a bunch man! Very helpful video

You’re very knowledgeable. Good information. One key part I wish you would’ve added was what does a edible by deer acorn look like? Do you have to just begin to look at acorns and cut them open to see how many are warm infested? Suspect there is a site method that deer use that we could use to determine edible acorns. Thanks

All the ones I’ve found so far have been wormy. 👍🏻👍🏻Great advice.

Thanks for the information. Never even crossed my mind.

Do a follow up in a few weeks please.....with healthy acorns after they really start falling.

Thanks, I just thought if they were down they would eat them...totally makes more sense that they don't eat wormed acorns now. Will save me some time where I would usually had imagined deer based on bad acorns.

Thanks for the info, I didn't know that

Awesome video.

When hurricane sally came through N.C. just a day before opening day of bow , she dumped a big amount of good white oaks on the ground and th following week there was more wind , the deer here will not leave the mature white oaks for more than a few minutes, my trail cams are in the big white oaks and the deer are there 24 hours a day.

We have had jack for acorns in Wisconsin because of a frost very late in spring

Great information!

Man that one hell of a hot tip right there

Thanks for the great tid bit.

Where I hunt in Alabama white oaks are always a good bet. Good video brother

Excellent tip!! Thanks for sharing!

Great food source for deer

Awesome.. Thanks for sharing! LiveAction

Great information!! Thank you!

Thanks Catman! we only have bur oaks here in the Black Hills, so the deer don't have much variety like the deer down south but this info is very helpful.

Also deer will eat white oak when they fall but red oak have to freeze couple times before deer will eat them cause there bitter till they freeze

Deer and turkey both prefer the white acorn, they aren't as bitter

THANX!!

Awesome tips! Hey can you explain the difference of squirrel sign vs deer sign as it relates to acorns? Like how can you tell which one has eaten them?

Super useful information!

Good info. Thanks man.

Great information

This guy is the real deal. This country boy could probably put most wildlife biologists to shame.

I sat on acorns all weekend hoping to capitalize on them to no luck. I really think even if you find the right acorns its still hit or miss if a buck has another tree closer. Acorns def make buck movement stop for me at least till 3rd week or so of Oct. Good video tho

Thank you🤘🏻

How many hours wasted sitting over punky acorns? This is gooooood advice to heed.

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New sub here and awesome video. Not about acorns but do you wear permethrin treated clothes anytime you go to the woods or do you stop after a few freezes? Been dealing with some issues from tick bites for the last 5-6 years and have finally gotten back to where I can eat red meat. I really want to start hunting again and after seeing how well permethrin works I may give it a shot.

Very helpful

Really good video

Our acorn crop here in wi this year is almost non existent. I haven't found a single tree with any

Man , where I was hunting this weekend the deer was tearing the chest nut oaks up, I killed a 10 point on them, 157 7/8 East Tennessee.

Awesome video. I didn’t know that

Hey Catman will the deer eat red oaks before it frost. Here in the mountains I live in they lay there till they get frosted on. Our acorns are spotty this year but are good were have found them. Good luck and God bless The Catman

You can use it to make acorn doufu

Agree with comment below......most interesting and unique discussion.

Good job bud!!

Good info.

Good job!

I hardly ever see them eat chestnut oaks either. I want to know when exactly the beach nuts are hot.

very helpful!

Health and tasted

Thanks Catman, I didn't know that. Anyone out there - do squirrels avoid these half rotten acorns or do they eat around the bad parts? Thanks

Amazing content!!!!!

What about the rest of your hunt?

Good info. Is that a Bitsy Minnow I spy?

So the deer don't eat the caps.

Chestnut oaks or what I call swamp oak drop these huge acorns that deer absolutely love around here in Alabama. I think they are the deers fav then white oaks and the small water oak acorns i think

Catman!

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You da man!

good information but big mistake disregarding chestnut oak !! kill them for years over chestnut oaks when nothing else is ready

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