SHED HUNTING THREAD - PICs INCLUDED

[Hoyt4]

Just looked over all my sheds I have at home this weekend. All but one are right sides. I have two match sets. I have looked before for shed but only the last couple years have I really made some better attempts to get out and look.

Even the big antler I found this winter is a right. I"m still looking for the other side of that. Seen one deer this weekend and still had both antlers.

I think I have a just around 20 sheds that do not match. 19 rights and 1 left. Hoping to find more in NE and SD turkey hunting.

[Huntin&Fishin]

ok so i have a question, i have tis prime spot where the deer walk at the bottom of this hill on a beaten path (by the deer) along a river, and now its flooding, when the river goes down do you think any sheds will be washed under or mean covered by leave and clutter after the river goes down?

[TonkaBass]

They will probably be pretty tough to spot

[lungdeflator]

Vexilarman--- We had that same issue in ND last year. Some spots were completely under water and logs and sticks and junk got moved around and piled up. We never found sheds in those areas. Other areas had mild flooding and we found sheds there. They will more than likely be covered in a fine silt but that washes off. If the water doesnt move to quick through that area you should be ok.

[jkcmj]

I decided to hit a spot yesterday afternoon and found 4 sheds in 2 hours walking. They sure stand out now with the snow mostly off!

[lungdeflator]

Lol that one looks like a banana!

[Monkster]

jkcmj - that's quite the productive 2 hours! Congrats!

[jkcmj]

I had another awesome day of shed hunting today! Ended up with 5 antlers between 3:30 and 6pm tonight. All single sides. Two real nice ones. One was sitting in a deer bed on a main trail in a small city park that usually is walked heavily every spring. I could see it from 50 yards away while walking out the top of the hill so don't know how it was missed. Missed getting a photo of one of them. Makes 21 for the season so far.

[TonkaBass]

Awesome job jkcmj! Keep them coming!

[jkcmj]

I found my biggest shed buck skull yet on Monday, and took it over to show a friend. He in turn comes out with this huge skull that drawfs the one I found by quite a bit. I took a couple of photos so you could see just how big this thing was.

[LOTWSvirgin]

Then this trespasser

[jkcmj]

Salamanders are the bomb I used to find them in my basement all the time, but not the last couple of years. I still find them occasionally outside around the place.

[LOTWSvirgin]

Another couple for my daught and I today

[MJ1657]

Spent a couple hours looking and this is what I came up with.

[shedaddict]

Lot's of good looking sheds being found.

I made it out yesterday for a short hike and found 2. My camera was on the fritz, so some pics did not turn out. I was very proud of my dog because she found her first shed. Most of the sheds I see first, but this was really her first solo shed find. I was standing there talking to my wife on the phone, and I saw her rooting around about 30 yards away; all of sudden she comes up with a nice little yearling 4pt. She got about 3 dog treat after that one!

[lungdeflator]

Nice way to go! We should have a competition for the smallest shed found

[MJ1657]

Great looking dog shedaddict. Glad she found one for you.!

[jkcmj]

I got out for a couple of hours this evening, but only came up with one small one. #22 for the season.

[shedaddict]

This is definitely the oldest and most chewed antler I've found. There's still quite a bit of snow on my Uncle's farm in Polk County, WI, but this was laying under a pine tree. I was walking a neighboring property, and it was pretty evident nobody walked this before because this one was really sticking out.

The shed is right behind the rubbed tree.

[matchset]

thats a dinosaur shed!

[TonkaBass]

Got a couple last night after work. Makes 26 total. One of these days I will pust up some pics

[leech~~]

Q's, do you think you find more Sheds around the late season yarding areas? Or where the bucks may have hung out a little late at the end of the rut in late fall, early winter before moving to the yard areas?

Been out twice nothing yet!

[swampbuck]

Keep walking they are there yarding areas are great to look in, any place you think a buck mayhave walked can be good

[shedaddict]

I know this is a pretty general question, but for you guys that shed hunt where the deer are yarding up, how big of an area do the deer usually yard up in? None of the deer yard up where I hunt.

[lungdeflator]

Leech-- Do you know when deer started dropping around you? If they started before christmas, like around my cabin, then they are probably in post rut areas, mainly food sources. After you get some good snows like we did around Bemidji this year, the deer yarded up in coniferous areas(thermal cover for when its cold and snow depth). Ive walked a lot of cedar swamps this winter, that seems to be a common place where deer yard up. Depending on the number of deer and size of the cedar swamp, the area they are in can be pretty big. Concentrate more around the edges of these swamps, preferably south facing edges.

Theres one spot where a guy had a 6 acre plot with sugar beets in it where the deer have been hitting it hard all winter. These deer were traveling at least a half mile from thermal cover to the field. I have heard that deer will travel a long ways to find good thermal cover, so in a mostly mature hardwoods area, find a stand of pines or cedar swamp and with a year like this there should be deer there.