Shed Trip 2011

[lungdeflator]

Well heres pics of our annual shed trip. We went over Easter weekend this year and had a heck of a time. Brought back 51 sheds between 3 of us. Most sheds were between 50-60 inches with a couple going mid 60's.

[lungdeflator]

[BronzeBrother]

Very cool. Like the pics of them where you found em'

Very nice job...

[MJ1657]

Great looking bunch of sheds i'm impressed with how many you found.

Without giving any specifics if you don't want what part of the country were you at.

[jerkbait]

Holy Carp!!! Nice finds.

[Andrew Erickson]

nice! That sure would be a fun trip

[MichaelSwan]

REALLY COOL. There are some great shed there for sure!

[paceman]

Wow!

[bowhunternw]

Looks like a really fun trip. I did quite a bit of searching this spring and only found a little fork shed and one pretty nice dead 8 point. You must have quite the little sweet spot.

[sticknstring]

Congrats - sounds like a great trip to me! That's amazing. I get excited when I find one antler. I've found 1 shed in 15 hours of walking this year. Last year it was 2 sheds in 12 hours. .11 sheds/hour - is that bad?

[lungdeflator]

Thanks guys. All ill say for location is "up north". Sticknstring I hear ya on the lack of sheds. If it wasnt for this trip and north dakota I would have only found 5 in Minnesota and thats with 40-45 miles of walking and about the same number of hours.

[Boar]

Thats wild! good for you guys, ya got it dial in for sure. Granite moss covered outcroppings jack pine poking up here an there, a high view to look for miles, I gotcha, I gotcha. Nice job L.D. later boar

[Bear55]

Nice work Lung, so do you hunt this area too or just go there for sheds?

[shedaddict]

Great job Lung! Good overall size to all the antlers.

[rkhinrichs]

mint!

[lungdeflator]

Just go for sheds. Would be fun to do a bow hunt up there though. We had 7 match sets and only 5 fresh drops out of the 51

[InTheNorthwoods]

Just go for sheds. Would be fun to do a bow hunt up there though. We had 7 match sets and only 5 fresh drops out of the 51

When you are counting fresh drops, are you counting them as "fresh" if they are dropped this winter (grown in 2010 season) or "fresh" as in dropped within the past X days/weeks/month.

Many of the sheds in your picture, in fact I would guess most, appear to be dropped from the past season even though they are already bleached. The sun can bleach an antler nearly white in a short period of time.

For example, I picked 8 sheds Saturday and all of them were "fresh" from this winter - but every single one of them was bleached white.

[lungdeflator]

Counting them as fresh from this last winter. Its pretty easy to tell up there. even the fresh ones are still really dark and have the wax ring. Plus they are sitting on top of the moss and grass, not indented into the moss and no grass growing over them. The bases are probably the best way to tell, as most sheds older than a year up there are really discolored, often greenish.