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thats a nice piece of bone Steve! congrats to your guy on that one! I would say we are looking at about 10-15% dropped here in NE PA.....but that %will be growing with every day....the peak is getting closer and closer. with about 14-16" of snow on the ground in most places with lots of hip deep drifts....and plenty more snow on the way for us...I'm gonna stay put and for the next 2-3 weeks. I'm getting a little itchy tho...lol.
According to my camera, in east central mn 1 of the two bucks on my property has shed. I took a swing around the woods to see if I could find any and stumbled on this guy. Last years shed, I'm assuming. I had photo's of this guy in the fall of '12 and '13 but not in '14. I walked by this shed 20-30 times this summer and fall, not sure how I didn't stumble on it. We had such a late spring last year that I just didn't get much walking in. He was a thick dude. I measured him at 65 1/8 and my roommate measured 66
I have a couple sets of matching spikes from when I was in high school. For one year only my dad planted 3 acres of corn behind our house. That spring, I think we found sheds from 12 different bucks in or around that corn field. The strange part was I found matching sets for all the yearlings but no matches for the three big sheds I found. We have them all hanging on a board in his garage. I think I have only found 2 sheds in the 25 years since. I have never found one at my place.
i have a matched set of forks, not legal forks, the split is hardly measurable. total beam length is probably 7". I found one side on the edge of a cut bean field in early May of 2010 when i was checking a trail camera for spring gobblers. It had been laying there exposed to the sun long enough to have been bleached totally white on the top side. The next winter in January of 2011 i was scouting the same field edge for shed hunting. I had found a good trail leading off the field and saw that there were a couple beds in the snow under a group of hemlocks 40 yds into the woods. so i walked in to the beds and looked at the base of the one hemlock where the snow was gone and saw the match to the small shed from the previous May. A squirrel must have stashed it at the base of the tree. The second shed was probably only 80-90 yds from where i found the first shed 7 months prior.
Snow on the ground and the ticks are out already? Great. You suppose this will be a bumper year for ticks?
