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SHED HUNTING THREAD - PICs INCLUDED

WalleyeChamp

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lungdeflator
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I am up to 27 in ND so far.  Waiting for more snow to melt.  Cold weather and deep snow makes the deer really group up out here and makes for easy shed hunting, but is really tough on the deer.  The 4

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Ely area find!!!

BIGFISH.JZ
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My 4 month old scored her first shed today! We've been training for this day pretty hard lately, I knew she could do it! I'll have to try to find the other side of this future giant tomorrow.

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Wow, I just spent an hour looking through the shed thread. It's awesome, I wanna start shed hunting too. How do I start? Where to look? I don't own land? I hunt deer and it looks like they start shedding in Dec.-April. What kind of areas or signs show a deer has shed their antlers. Seems hard to look for those buried in snow.

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Yeah, a few. Nothing crazy this year. The moose set was my highlight and that came early in the season. Still have yet to get a droptine. When I do I will be one happy camper smile I think I got just over 40 deer sheds this season total

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TonkaBass, is there a reason why there is so much deer droppings next to most of the antlers? Is this common? I haven't done any shed hunting since I was a young'n, if you guys could put together a little "Shed Hunting Hint List" in this thread for the coming spring I think that would be pretty cool. Maybe there is one already? I haven't read through the whole thread.

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NIce Jerkin! Yeah, Moose drop early, I would love to get some free time from work and do a moose shed trip in mid december!

Buckmaster, There was a lot of droppings because the deer were so yarded up where I shed hunted last year. There were easliy 400 deer within a square mile for a few months during the winter. The deer trails, instead of being indented into the ground, actually crested upward like a paved road of [PoorWordUsage]! lol Some tips I would give are...

-have a good pair of bincos with a $20 binoc harness, its a must and used constantly!

-Dont wear polarized glasses even though your eyes take awhile to adjust to the snow, antlers have a sheen to them that the glasses will take away.

-Try to not double walk an area, youre better off walking through an area with less sign than to double track a spot right after you just hit it.

-Look behing you every once and awhile. Angles is everything and you will get more bone this way.

-Look for anything different. In the woods there is a rythm to what the brush and snow and trees appear like. Antlers just dont fit in. Curves, sheens, points, pedistals, "rib cages", and the color of bone are what to look for. If youre in a corn field or sunflower field, just walk slow and look hard!

-dont bring a backpack, theyre bad luck.

Hope this helps!

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