Depends where you are in Ol' Hi-Jackson. If you're near ag and/or the river , they won't change much if any. If you're waaaay up in PRV , they'll travel. And back in the mountains , with as much logging that goes on up here , they won't have to go far to find some good browse. And now that baiting is legal , well , the food comes to them. Just because we have a lot of hardwood acres , there's more to eat than acorns up here. I'll bet $ they don't shift far and permanently .
It would seem that the acorns play a major role in harvest up there…..kyles comment on page one suggests that he is getting less pics than ever because they have “shifted food sources and are somewhere feeding on acorns”…..So what I have pictured is that if you look at Google Earth right now you’re going to have a pretty solid concentration of deer around all of those big hardwoods……and if we keep looking at the map and skip to the next bust year for acorns then at least a portion of that concentration that’s currently in the big hardwoods are going to spread out to other areas….Without acorns all of those big areas of closed canopied hardwood mountains would be pretty void of food in comparison to the good years……Those are the years the doe population is getting hammered
I have a bunch of cameras out and feeders. Got less pictures than i ever have. Just means they have shifted food sources.
