There’s probably a little truth in that……..
If we looked at the Roach’s Cove area on Google Earth for an example…..you have Garner Ridge on the west and Inglis Point on the east with “hollows” on either side and open bottomland for several miles out in front…..I’m assuming those two mountains are likely filled with acorns right now……Imagine how many different doe groups have their home ranges that include some area of the bottoms and then one of those two mountain sides…..You likely have numerous doe groups with different bottomland home ranges that converge and overlap each other on the same mountain side during heavy acorn years……One group could come from Roach’s Cove and another from Inglis Hollow and both converge on Garner Ridge as part of both of their home ranges……
So….if you have all of these doe groups converging on those two mountain sides then it should create competition amongst them……That however is depending on how many deer there are converging compared to the available food…..It should be sort of an eyeball test as to the overall population level…..If the bottoms seem really void of deer right now then you probably don’t have a lot of competition occurring for acorns in the mountains… …..Depending on where someone hunts it very well be that they “cant find them” right now……
