2020/21 sheds

[rachunter]

20 minutes ago, E J said:

My friend and also neighbor found one side to my number one target from this season. He also found one side last year. He grew quite a bit in a year. I hope to have him around again this coming year and maybe get a chance at him. Without measuring I would guess he was about 140" this past season. 

 WOW thats a wacky brow tine

[E J]

Found a little shed myself today. Told my buddy that found the big one that this is a bigger trophy because they are harder to find.

[Nomad]

Seven hours in . 3 in Webster park , where I had 20 some deer circle me in a narrow valley ,trails and droppings everywhere, Zero sheds . 
 

Back at it tomorrow at my spot .

EJ, I always say anyone can shoot a big deer, fawns are a much smaller target !

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[E J]

1 hour ago, Nomad said:

 

EJ, I always say anyone can shoot a big deer, fawns are a much smaller target !

That used to be my line too in my much younger years when I seemed to always shoot at least one button buck a year!

[G-Man]

Found the sheds to a buck I let pass due to its broken beam , should be a good one this year

[BizCT]

Found the sheds to a buck I let pass due to its broken beam , should be a good one this year

Cool buck


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[WNY Bowhunter]

#12...

 

[rachunter]

Found one more today. Saw a bunch of other people looking around today. One more spot tomorrow then that’s it for shed hunting on Long Island.



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[Nomad]

Finally ! Saw the 10 Pt. half in a green field , saw it from 100 yards away ,which is why I like walking these fields , couldn’t find the other half .

The old greenie , I found when I spied the little carcass and headed to,it , the old half an 8PT has lying near it .

[rachunter]

Took one last hike didn’t find anything but an old fox den. It was a woodchuck hole last year.



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[Lucky118]

Couple  nice ones

[WNY Bowhunter]

My wife managed to stumble onto this stud yesterday afternoon only 10 minutes into her first shed hunt of the season! I was pumped to see that he'd survived the orange army. I only found the match to a small one I'd picked up several weeks ago...

[Marion]

My wife managed to stumble onto this stud yesterday afternoon only 10 minutes into her first shed hunt of the season! I was pumped to see that he'd survived the orange army. I only found the match to a small one I'd picked up several weeks ago...

So that's what a shed should look like. Yep definitely haven't seen anything like that yet

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[crappyice]

My wife managed to stumble onto this stud yesterday afternoon only 10 minutes into her first shed hunt of the season! I was pumped to see that he'd survived the orange army. I only found the match to a small one I'd picked up several weeks ago...

Gee how did she ever see that one???
Beauty!


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[BizCT]

Wow. How long is that brow?


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[genesee_mohican]

I was out looking for sheds at the end of the year and found the fresh dead head. It was a buck I had on cam near my house.  Then I got out after work last week for a few hours on public land and found the older shed and dead head, which was pretty cool and has a drop tine but it's broken off.

 I hope to get out again this weekend too look around and reset a stand. It's one of my favorite times of year to be out in the woods n fields.

[WNY Bowhunter]

3 hours ago, Biz-R-OWorld said:

Wow. How long is that brow?


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Brow is 7.25"/ mainbeam is 25.25"

[Lawdwaz]

First and maybe last (lol) for the season.....

 

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[Nomad]

That’s a nice find Larry .
Im hitting it hard next week with the nice weather . Although while January had bucks all over my spot per my cameras , February was sparse. 

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[WNY Bowhunter]

Two more yest. Not a set but both laying within sight of one another...

 

[squirrelwhisperer]

I never find sheds when I go. Wonder what I am doing wrong. 

The only way I can find a shed when I go out is at Home Depot!

 

[suburbanfarmer]

1 hour ago, squirrelwhisperer said:

I never find sheds when I go. Wonder what I am doing wrong. 

The only way I can find a shed when I go out is at Home Depot!

 

Need to look in the area where bucks spend the winter..i have only ever found 2. 

[Nomad]

3 hours ago, squirrelwhisperer said:

I never find sheds when I go. Wonder what I am doing wrong. 

The only way I can find a shed when I go out is at Home Depot!

 

How much time do you put in ? I found my first this year after 8 hours of looking , found number two an hour or so after . Most years I find one for each 2-3 hours .  As mentioned it’s best to look where they winter, I like green fields ,as they can still feed in them over the winter . I also walk a lot of hedgerows, as the deer follow them on the farm going from point A to B . 
 

Woods and thickets , I find them but it’s generally when I almost step on them , matted down fields you can glass and see them from a long ways off . Also turn around from time to time , it’s easy to miss one on the “ other side “ of a tree trunk . I have two thickets left to hit on the farm and I’m not looking forward to that . 
 

Many here are much better at this then I 

[Swamp_bucks]

Going for a shed/scouting hike in the morning.  Just hoping snows melted some more on that hill went there last week and it was still knee deep.

[Lucky118]

5 hours ago, squirrelwhisperer said:

I never find sheds when I go. Wonder what I am doing wrong. 

The only way I can find a shed when I go out is at Home Depot!

 

This yr walk the valleys  places with sun.