I'm In

[LrgmouthShad]

Hey ya'll,

 

Alright folks I've decided that because fishing has been difficult for me because of my injury... I'm hunting this season in MO for whitetails, at least for a little during this hiatus but will probably continue a little even after healing. Archery season starts the 15th and I'm looking for a crossbow, blind, and stuff. I grew up hunting and feel I know at least a little about it but have no cameras so I'll be doing some scouting lookin for dem trees, tracks, rubs, beddin areas, whatever. 

 

Let's get em

[GaryH]

Good luck and enjoy..

[LrgmouthShad]

Looking at all applicable regulations, safety courses, etc. If anybody hunting in MO would like to add some things I should be familiar with that are tricky and might miss, feel free. 
 

Edit: meaning tricky regulations. Because was talking with a guy here and he was talking about how the seasons are tricky here cuz it goes back and forth between what firearms you can use and stuff. I’ll look at that though

[gim]

2 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Archery season starts the 15th

September or October 15? Up here in MN the archery season opens Sept 17 but most archery hunters wait until about mid October to do their serious hunting. Usually September is too warm, there’s still leaves on the trees, and the rut is nowhere in sight.

[LrgmouthShad]

4 minutes ago, gimruis said:

September or October 15? Up here in MN the archery season opens Sept 17 but most archery hunters wait until about mid October to do their serious hunting. Usually September is too warm, there’s still leaves on the trees, and the rut is nowhere in sight.

September 15. I am not worried about being out there opening day or even week. Plus do not know how long it's gonna take me to jump through the regulation hoops and registrations.  I am only worried about finding a really good area or three and then worried about hunting. It might take me several weeks to find a spot where I say... yeah... this is good. As well as have an understanding of how I want to hunt it with expectations of what paths the deer are using. 

[gim]

3 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

It might take me several weeks to find a spot where I say... yeah... this is good

I hear ya. Finding a decent place to hunt near home is the biggest hurdle nowadays.

[LrgmouthShad]

First scouting trip surprisingly successful. Found plenty of white oaks near a creek with a ditch nearby. Very nice looking. However, found evidence that I am not the first to find the spot 

 

Just one possibility 

 

Edit: Questioning they are white oaks now? Trying to determine what the tree is. Regardless, tons of acorns on the ground, looked like from last year. 

[TnRiver46]

14 hours ago, LrgmouthShad said:

First scouting trip surprisingly successful. Found plenty of white oaks near a creek with a ditch nearby. Very nice looking. However, found evidence that I am not the first to find the spot 

 

Just one possibility 

 

Edit: Questioning they are white oaks now? Trying to determine what the tree is. Regardless, tons of acorns on the ground, looked like from last year. 

My wife has a white oak branch for photo shoots , I’ll photo graph it later. Also white oak bark is a little flaky/exfoliating, more so as it goes up from the base out to the branches. They described is at cat scratched bark in college 

[LrgmouthShad]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

My wife has a white oak branch for photo shoots , I’ll photo graph it later. Also white oak bark is a little flaky/exfoliating, more so as it goes up from the base out to the branches. They described is at cat scratched bark in college 

My current guess is that it is in the white oak “family” but not a “white oak”. I have an app to help me ID it next time. I know, I know. Youngsters havin to use technology for everything. 

and thank you!

[TnRiver46]

17 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

My current guess is that it is in the white oak “family” but not a “white oak”. I have an app to help me ID it next time. I know, I know. Youngsters havin to use technology for everything. 

and thank you!

Those plant identifier apps are about as good as a weather prediction 

[LrgmouthShad]

1 hour ago, TnRiver46 said:

Those plant identifier apps are about as good as a weather prediction 

☹️
 

That is discouraging. Guess I’ll cross check with what I can find

[TnRiver46]

14 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

☹️
 

That is discouraging. Guess I’ll cross check with what I can find

Post a pic here, I’m decent with it. Although dendrology class was circa 2004 

[VolFan]

Generally white oaks have rounded lines on the leaves and larger acorns. Red oak leaves are pointed and they have smaller acorns, sometimes down to pea sized. 

[Jig Man]

They might be post oaks.  A pic of leaves and tree bark might help identify them.

[TnRiver46]

Quercus alba 

[LrgmouthShad]

Thank you guys. Didn’t send photos because I done have much helpful at the moment, until I go out again. This is all I have, photo of bark and it ain’t all that good a pic

[TnRiver46]

46 minutes ago, LrgmouthShad said:

Thank you guys. Didn’t send photos because I done have much helpful at the moment, until I go out again. This is all I have, photo of bark and it ain’t all that good a pic

That sure looks like chestnut oak aka Quercus Montana 

[gim]

5 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Definitely not your standard white oak

From that photo I'd say that is not a standard TREE, period.  The base looks smaller in diameter than the trunk.  Not good if you're a tree.

[TnRiver46]

27 minutes ago, gimruis said:

From that photo I'd say that is not a standard TREE, period.  The base looks smaller in diameter than the trunk.  Not good if you're a tree.

As long as it drops some mast! Trees grow every which way in the hills 

[TnRiver46]

Just pulled up to a customers house and got you another nice white oak photo 

[LrgmouthShad]

On 9/9/2022 at 9:53 AM, TnRiver46 said:

Just pulled up to a customers house and got you another nice white oak photo 

Scouted another spot, I am positive that I found quite a lot of them along with red oak and quite possibly some swamp chestnut oak. It was an oak forest, basically. Some other trees mixed in. In spite of this, did not see many signs of deer but did not fully cover the area I wanted to yet. Here’s the white oak:

 

And then a couple other trees. Think one is a red oak and the other maybe one of the chestnuts

[TnRiver46]

Top 2 and I think bottom photo is white oak. Not sure about the other, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen swamp chestnut oak in person 

[LrgmouthShad]

2 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

Top 2 and I think bottom photo is white oak. Not sure about the other, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen swamp chestnut oak in person 

My Dad called the middle one red oak. Dunno. Wish I could've gotten leaves but they were really high. Whites oaks were in a lot of places. 

 

Still want to do a lot of looking around. A lot more. 

 

Thanks!

[TnRiver46]

1 minute ago, LrgmouthShad said:

My Dad called the middle one red oak. Dunno. Wish I could've gotten leaves but they were really high. Whites oaks were in a lot of places. 

 

Still want to do a lot of looking around. A lot more. 

 

Thanks!

Red oak bark is striped , then again there’s a lot of reds . Northern red and southern red, then pin oak, scarlet oak, etc are grouped into the “red” category 

[Darth-Baiter]

i dont ever recall my treestand guys looking at the species of tree they sit in.

 

i hate treestands so know very little, but i do know you want to be between their beds, and food and water supply.  hunt their highways, not their food source.  that's how my friends do it.  

 

good luck.    be safe with those treestands.