Quick Shed Hunt

[H20fwler]

Youngest boy went out shed hunting this afternoon and had some luck.

 

[Mortenson]

Nice set. Any history? Looks fairly young. Someone likes his new chewtoy as well.

 

[H20fwler]

No history with any there, he found everything on public miles from our farms. I'm going to have to check our places out now!

 

[Bill]

Is the pup helping or just out for some fun?

 

[H20fwler]

She is just getting exercise and bumping bunnies up.

 

[kl9]

Is that a scar on her head or just a birth mark?

 

[H20fwler]

Is that a scar on her head or just a birth mark?

Just a little stripe of white hairs, she is red roan on her bottom half. She is five months old now all legs, looks kind of skin and bones like a hound that needs fed...very waspy looking but she is crazy fast and her nose is impressive so far.

 

[kl9]

Just a little stripe of white hairs, she is red roan on her bottom half. She is five months old now all legs, looks kind of skin and bones like a hound that needs fed...very waspy looking but she is crazy fast and her nose is impressive so far.

I see - good looking pup there.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

She'll be a great buddy for all things outdoors for some years to come. She looks inquisitive in that pic. Have great times with her, H2O !!

 

[H20fwler]

He went out again this past Friday with a friend and did pretty good.

He is way better at it than I am, I rarely find any while actually looking. I always just stumble across one while doing something else.

 

[Mortenson]

Geez I guess! That's a haul. A few freshies and looks like a few dropped in the squirrel zone. I'm itching to go but I don't really feel like pushing deer to the snipers.

 

[Mortenson]

Stumbled across these while working on trees yesterday. Two were dropped this year. The one on left I think was dropped this century.

 

[ksgobbler]

On the board

 

[Northbound]

When you guys are shed hunting, do you pay much attention to deer droppings?

I've put in a ton of miles looking lately and still haven't found a shed. Which is ok as I still learn some thing new about the land while seeking sheds.

Been sticking to public lands I'm familiar with as my private lands I don't need to beat the other guys. Some Trails are littered with piles of droppings and every now and then I find areas with large clumps. I've always associated the large clumps with bucks but maybe that's not true? I've killed does larger than many bucks, maybe those doezillas are responsible for the large clumps?

Determined to find some sheds so any help in scouting down those bucks will help

 

[H20fwler]

I always think the clumps are bucks too, don't know if its true or not.

My youngest son who is getting good at shed hunting told me to look bedding areas over good then slowly walk big circles out from it for a ways then check trails to feeding areas and do same at feeding area. He likes shed hunting on overcast days says he can see them better.

 

[ksgobbler]

Best time to find them is after you burn them get a light rain. They pop. We burned the closed side of Marais des Cygnes NWR for the first time in 2005. You should’ve seen the sheds we saw. Same at Quivira and lots of other places.

 

[Mortenson]

We always thought the clumps were buck poo also. Read somewhere recently that that's not true. Most my good sheds have come within probably 50 yards of the edge of a field, with the second most coming in or near a buck bed. We don't really have good buck bedding... the guys who do I think come up with the monsters. Gain access to winter wheat fields if you can. Standing corn stalks (and nearby) are better than plowed ground. Unworked bean stubble (and nearby) provides an area for deer to scratch around in and maybe jar one loose.