Horn huntting?

[CAJ]

Anybody doing any good finding Horns. I have good luck right in my back yard. The Deer have moved into our small town and eatting every bush we have. I have found 2 complete sets in yard, and 3 halves. They have eaten all my Pines and are starting on the other bushes now. Don,t know what will keep them out. Even tried radio blasting, but they seem to like music.

[icehousebob]

The deer in my back yard area are still carrying their antlers. There is a big 10 pointer that beds down back there that I would love to get his sheds when they drop.

[blarkey]

they have some stuff you can spray on your shrubs but I don't know in the winter.

[koonie]

Deer don't have horns.

[tracker x-2]

I have been doing some antler hunting no luck though

[snoozebutton]

they have some stuff you can spray on your shrubs but I don't know in the winter.

My wife uses that (whatever it'scalled) for her flowers in the summer and it works good. Not sure about winter time use either, worth a try though.

[sticknstring]

Milorganite. Works on hostas as well.

[Nightcrawler]

WD_40 works

[Code-Man]

Differnt tricks are out there. My ma said that people come into her to get hair from customers that she cuts and they spread it around plants and what not to keep the smell there. There are chemicals out there that help with keeping animals out. I know for food plots there is a chemical/product Plot Saver don't know active ingredients or what not but know that they work.

If you have small evergreens you can take wax paper fold over the growing points (Top and side branches) and staple it then remove the wax paper in the fall. For the national parks where they plant small plants to replace clear cutting/lumbering they do this. Then just remove the wax paper in the spring. Will help a lot!

[bottom-bouncer]

coyote pee works well should be able to get it at fleetfarm by the traps

[SHANTY]

BIG TEN! WHERE DO U LIVE

[Musky Buck]

Tried but pretty hard to find them when every buck I could identify still had both sides on the head. Every year in my area it seems it's a waste to look before March 1st because they shed so late, like last weekend jumped 3 bucks with full racks, of course some must be shed in the area but how many and talking to my uncle, he has the ultimate spot to look for sheds and routinely finds 20-30 sheds per spring, he has zero so far and the bucks in his swamp are still sporting their racks. When he starts finding them, then I start looking. Other areas in MN are way different though, last Sunday star and tribune article near Brainerd the writer (Marchel) noted the bucks still carrying antlers, although 1 had 1 side gone.

[lovebigbluegills]

Musky,

What type of terrain is your uncle's honey hole? I've looked up and down trails, in bedding areas, feeding areas, ditch crossings, and haven't seen a thing yet. I haven't seen any deer with antlers for about 2 weeks now.

[Musky Buck]

My uncles terrain is East Ottertail County, why I wonder in some pockets around MN do they hold them much longer ? Friend in Fridley MN has many racked bucks coming every night to his bird feeders. I looked hard last weekend figuring we hadn't had any snow in awhile so I went where I found 8 sheds last spring and found none. It appears there is roughly 100 deer in that cornfield every night, but no sheds found yet. Then I took a trail into the swamp a little ways and it was pretty windy, bunch of deer got up and started sneaking away, that is when I could see 3 of them still with both sides. I don't like spooking the deer at this time of the year, so I went back out to the field.It certainly could be some are covered by snow or I just missed them. Last year Valentine's day, had 4 bucks in our field with full racks and I've seen them up to March with both sides, especially over the past 10 years or so. As a kid, 70's and 80's, found them in these same areas but it was way earlier than today. I am certain some have shed because there is no magic clock, but the past 10 years have been a waste of time for me until about mid-march. I will call my uncle this weekend, he has his t-cam out so when he starts seeing 1 horned or no horned bucks then it's game on but as of last weekend, they still had racks or at least the majority. The real test is I've walked these same trails for 30 years now, walk them in February pruning lanes and getting my stands ready for next fall, find no horns on the main trail, walk that same trail in mid-march and there they are and snow covering them isn't why I didn't see them in Feb. Put my T-cam out as well on 2 huge trails on Sunday, should get a better update. Sunday star and trib made note of bucks still carrying their racks, I just think certain areas are different due to ? Maybe food, nutrition, mineral ?????

[kingr]

I was out snowshoeing this weekend and I saw deer with horns on still. A fork and either a 6 or 8 pointer. The 6 or 8 took off and the fork sat there trying to figure out what I was and why I was bothering them I guess.