My 2012-13 Shed Journal.

[NYBuckHunter27]

Hard to see but found this shed in my brassica food plot, earliest i've ever found a shed. still trail camera pics of bucks with both sides out there. Hopefully this continues and the racks get bigger!

[WNY Bowhunter]

This little spiker from yesterday makes #10. Hit up a new spot today with TONS of deer sign but couldn't get out to where I really wanted to look due to the creek being so high. There's supposed to be a monster droptine buck that was seen here around x-mas time...

[Zag]

Need a hunting buddy????????

[growalot]

All the years I've scoured our place...not one shed...couple of dead buck in the streams but no sheds...I have spent 8 hrs' over the last 2 days and nothing...but some mighty fine rub lines in areas I didn't hunt much...but will next year...cow paths for tracks I even fought the rose bushes and waded through a lot of our swamp area...nada....should try at camp this coming week...before the cold hits again...Nice finds you have

[WNY Bowhunter]

Shed #11:

I wish I would have picked this one up last year!!!

On the hoof...

2010 antler compared to 2011...

Shed #12:

Would have been another 60 incher if the G2 wasn't busted...

[First-light]

Wow, real nice!

[Pav2704]

Wowwwww is right!

[wooly]

Good God man, that's a chunker!

[132 eight pointer]

Beautiful pictures,thanks for posting all of them.Someday I may even find a shed.

[WNY Bowhunter]

Well, here's a little update on my most wanted sheds this year...

I had his antlers in my hands yesterday, but not exactly the way that I wanted to see them. This landowner had allowed me to shed hunt his property for the past two years. When I approached him about looking for this deer's sheds a few weeks ago he threw me a major curveball by saying that he was going to try to find them this year. I was crushed!!! This deer was so patternable from late November though December that I just knew that his antlers were going to be easy to find this year. I was right. He found them last weekend laying out in one of the cloverfields where I had videoed this guy on x-mas eve within five minutes of searching. It's the only 5 minutes that he's ever looked for shed antlers too. I'm still sick about it. Oh well, that's how it goes sometimes.

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Most of the tines had chipped tips and several small abnormals were broken off too...

This year's antlers compared to the previous two years...

[joe12]

monster

[wooly]

Oh man, what a pisser! Just goes to show you can't count your antlers before they're in the pile.

I try not to advertise much anymore that I shed hunt to landowners that give me permission to hike... maybe a bit deceptive, but I've found my own way around that. Nothing worse than loosing a good property because you showed your horns to the wrong people. Big antlers, or antlers in good numbers, have a crazy way of motivating folks to get out there to see what they've been missing after you turn them onto these treasures in their own backyards. At least now you know the search is off for them giants and can move on to the rest of them.

[WNY Bowhunter]

That's exactly what happened in this case. The property owner didn't even know what a shed antler was until I explained it him a couple of years back. However, he and his wife are anti-hunters and are very suspicious about letting people on to their land. This deer was just so visible in their cloverfields during daylight hours during november/decemeber that it ultimately ended up screwing me over big time...

Edited January 28, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter

[BizCT]

Fkn Monster!

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[Geno C]

holy sheds! nice job!

i swear i couldnt find a shed if my life depended on it... i dont know if im looking in the wrong places or if im hitting it to early or to late. not sure if if other guys are finding them before me. i went out yesterday for a few hours, nothing...

[WNY Bowhunter]

I forgot how to find them too...my last 4 trips out have been pretty uneventful.

[Geno C]

how many acre farm do you have?

[WNY Bowhunter]

I shed hunt several different properties in the area...

[WNY Bowhunter]

A buddy of mine picked up the current year's shed from the heavy base buck saturday afternoon laying in his backyard. I was checking a picked cornfield at the time literally right across the road. Just my luck. They had no sightings of this deer all year.

The new shed has 8-pts...

The current year's antler is in the middle...2011 antler is on the left and 2010 on the right:

Edited February 4, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter

[Dom]

A buddy of mine picked up the current year's shed from the heavy base buck saturday afternoon laying in his backyard. I was checking a picked cornfield at the time literally right across the road. Just my luck. They had no sightings of this deer all year.

The new shed has 8-pts...

The current year's antler is in the middle...2011 antler is on the left and 2010 on the right:

This buck must only grow on one side,any pics of the deer these are from?

[WNY Bowhunter]

Here are a few pics from 2011...

[phade]

Certainly has the mass, but he really didn't put much on in spread, tine length, etc. this season.

Nothing to complain about thought, that boy is a hoss.

[WNY Bowhunter]

He's doesn't have the greatest genetics scorewise...probably lower 150's typical gross this year (plus trash) assuming that the other side resembles this one. The trophy status of this deer is in the fact that he must have been 7.5 or 8.5 years old this past season. He's an old warrior of the whitetail world!!!

Edited February 4, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter

[wooly]

Man, I wish we grew them like that around here.

I might take this shed hunting a little more serious if we did,lol!

What do the bases on those horns measure... or at least on the latest one you have you in posession?

[WNY Bowhunter]

Man, I wish we grew them like that around here.

I might take this shed hunting a little more serious if we did,lol!

What do the bases on those horns measure... or at least on the latest one you have you in posession?

The mass measurements at the narrowest point between the burr and browtine on my sheds are 6 inches each, the circumference around the burr/corona of each antler is close to 8 inches. I guess he was genetically programmed to put more growth into his basal area than in his tines...

Edited February 4, 2013 by WNY Bowhunter