sureshot Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 I wonder how many sheds are just happend across while out deer hunting? I found a spike mule shed last week and last night found a shed froma 155" mule abotu 25 yards from a main road as I was going for a hike with the bow!thant makes 2 so far this year while deer hunting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathews4life Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I have been hunting for 7 yrs now (own my own) and i have never found a shed. I think the rats and squirrels chew them up quickly where i hunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted September 27, 2004 Report Share Posted September 27, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! [ QUOTE ] I have been hunting for 7 yrs now (own my own) and i have never found a shed. I think the rats and squirrels chew them up quickly where i hunt. [/ QUOTE ] Yes the rats and things get to them by deer season normally. Last year i found a huge 7 point which was 7 points on the left beam. Nothing had touched it. But any way, Normally you will find them in the spring alot better~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KANSAN Posted October 2, 2004 Report Share Posted October 2, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I've found several while walking to and from my stand sites. Usually I stop and ask myself, "why didn't I find this thing back in March???" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LDB Posted October 3, 2004 Report Share Posted October 3, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I have picked up six so far while bowhunting this year. All of them were lying in open areas where I went shed-hunting last spring. One antler I could see from 300 yards away. Another one was lying maybe 10-20 yards from where I picked up the first set last year - I had the check the "as found" photo to see if you could actually see it in the background. Either I had the blinders on or the coyotes have been moving them around (although none of them had much in the way of chew marks). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! [ QUOTE ] RyanH. Sounds like a monster is roaming...7 points on one beam....anybody harvested him?...any word if he is still living?....good luck! [/ QUOTE ] Yup he is. He is roaming around on some other land and crosses the road where i hunt. Ranch hands saw him the other day. Therer is a pic of the shed in MY PIcs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! A guy from my hunting club found a moose shed one year in the Adirondacks where we lease 3000 acres! Pretty cool!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted October 12, 2004 Report Share Posted October 12, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I've found a few while deer hunting but most of them have been chewed on pretty bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted October 13, 2004 Report Share Posted October 13, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I've found a few, the biggest was a 12 point still on the skull in perfect condition...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefighter Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! A dead shed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slugshooter Posted October 17, 2004 Report Share Posted October 17, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! Rats and Squirrels chew on shed antlers. Why, they can't taste very good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KANSAN Posted October 19, 2004 Report Share Posted October 19, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! LDB - maybe they dropped in there after you looked the last time? *shrugs* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LDB Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! Kansan - that's probably the case for a couple of them, but some of the really open ones had been sitting there for a couple of years and were really bleached. I'm up to 11 sheds found while hunting this year (188 total for the year), but now there is a heavy blanket of snow across the land so I might not break 200 this year. I find it tough to switch out of shed-hunting mode while hunting. It pays off sometimes when I spot a bedded buck's antlers, but other times I spook deer because I'm not looking far enough ahead (I mainly still-hunt and spot-and-stalk). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sureshot Posted October 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I hear ya LDB!!! I have been doing the exact same thign, sort of still hunting a draw and see a nice pathc of ceder and decide to take a walk over and check it out lOL!!!once its in the blood its there for good!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LDB Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! The attraction of cedar is too strong to overcome for a shedhunter, Sureshot. Saskbucks even catches himself looking in people's juniper bushes while walking through his neighbourhood. You know when you are an absolutely addicted shedhunter when you kill a buck and you find yourself thinking, "Man, I wish I could have picked up his sheds this winter". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KANSAN Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! [ QUOTE ] . You know when you are an absolutely addicted shedhunter when you kill a buck and you find yourself thinking, "Man, I wish I could have picked up his sheds this winter". [/ QUOTE ] So true!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasksheds Posted October 22, 2004 Report Share Posted October 22, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! Here is a pic of the best shed that I have ever found while hunting.I just wish it would have been attached with the other side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fisherguy Posted October 24, 2004 Report Share Posted October 24, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! [ QUOTE ] wow you found an abandoned wood shed was it oak wood [/ QUOTE ] What are you talking about?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasksheds Posted October 25, 2004 Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 Re: sheds found while deer hunting!! I tripped over one Sat while pushing bush for Dad & his buddy.That makes 4 sheds found while hunting this fall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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