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:oops: Next year you'll break 180!

SHAZAMMMM :jaw:Now that's a dandy buck! Congratulations

To make time and get out there teaching my son more about our great outdoors while looking for moose sheds :yes:

Every year I feel that way. Most of the land I hunt is open to the public in the way you don't need permission. If it's not posted you can hunt it so there's a lot of property I can pick from and not have a ton of pressure from people. That is until someone spots your truck more than once in an area then they feel you must be hunting something good and they move in on you :no: I tend to park in crazy places to hide my truck and even will walk for a long way just to keep a spot low key. I personally would find it hard though to try practicing AR on public land if I were living back home or back in MD. I'd only be doing it if I had exclusive land where I know who's hunting it and what gets taken. Plus side of it all is that when you least expect it, a real monster will come walking into your kill zone and it will all be worth the wait. It does happen on public land more than most realize seeing most guys will shot the first set of horns they see. Be patient and good luck

AWESOME Tell her contgratulations from NH

Before I saw this thread I made a post on how my season went this year. I voted great but for being in NH where the hunting can be tough and the deer heard poor due to our wonderful F&G Department...maybe I should have rated it higher.

It’s been a great year hunting for me! With the bow I took a 10lb hen with 6 7/8” beard on 10/4/09, 129 lb doe on 10/14/09 and then a 200.5 lb 8pt. on 10/29/09. My son helped me track him until the bogs got too big & wet for him to carry on. This buck made the NH Trophy Deer Program. Then on 11/14/09 in VT (up in the northeast kingdom known for big big tracts of land) I took a nice 153 lb 8 pointer with my new R1. I still have a gun tag for NH and I’m working on filling it with the buck below that’s in some unknown big woods (where I found the moose shed). I’ve got two days left so it’s really coming down to crunch time for me. If I don’t get him by Sunday the end of the gun season and if he lives through the winter, he’ll fall to my bow. In 2010! I’ve learned a lot about his pre-rut stomping grounds in just the 6 or 7 times I’ve been in this area after him

Here are the only ones I've got left for my collection of about 80 sheds from MD. These are all sets except for the three on the right, top two from NH and the third one from VT. My brother has a good collection he's found over the years in the middle photo. This past shed season I think he broke his personal record of 130 for the season. The photo of his shed collection is from a few years ago so I’m sure it’s a lot bigger now. A lot of the places he finds his sheds (except for the elk sheds) are in my old hunting areas. I’d really like to get back into it! Shed hunting was a great way to get out and scout, exercise and enjoy to woods. Now that I found that nice moose shed, I’m really thinking hard about getting back into walking the mountain tops and bog bottom with my 4yr old son. The last photo is my shed old collection sitting on my pie-balk buck hide. I ended up horse trading my sheds but as I said, I kept my sets. Sorry the photo was small, it’s an older photo.

Thanks everyone My whitetail collection was reduced to just sets and a couple singles from NH & VT. I'm seriously thinking of getting into the moose shed hunting though. I thought that piece missing from the tip was from fighting or rubbing but it turns out that moose will chew or eat on their owns sheds. It was made from another moose (maybe the same bull who dropped it) biting the antler which at first I didn't believe. Then after looking in our state antler and skull record book, there's another moose shed with the same exact bit taken out of it. Pretty weird huh? I plan on having it scored for the books so maybe this year I can get the next issues 3X. My archery bear from 2001, this year’s 200lb archery buck and now with this shed

Well it's not really huge for a moose shed but still very respectable for the area I was in. A buddy of mine figured it to be probably a 50" bull. I’ve been hunting a big buck pretty hard the past several times out so today I wanted to explore another area but still staying close his home grounds. Found some great rubs and a few scrapes but the highlight of the day was this. I found it lying on a small island of hemlocks in the middle of a good size bog. I should head back with my hip boots and really start getting back into shed hunting. This area is some real sweet prime moose country. In my days of living in MD I wasn’t too bad of a shed hunter. Not nearly as good as my brother but I could hold my own. This makes my shed count up to 2 and is by far in better condition as my first moose shed.

I hope this is right but I thought Jim Shockey use to host a section on Realtree show about homegrown hunting videos. If so can anyone tell what it was called? I had one but can't find it and trying to search on line to find another one to replace it. It was a bunch of the homegrown clips people sent in all on one video. Thanks in advance