Shed hunting season is coming!!!

[Northern Whitetails]

TLH -- great site, I will make sure I visit much more regularly.

Here's a set of Alberta sheds to get the blood moving in your veins in anticipation of the upcoming shed season!

http://www.huntamerica.com/articles/images/thefarmyardbuck.jpg

[Admin]

NW,

Wow what a set! You are right NW that does get the blood moving on a cold December morning.

Thanks for visiting, Canada is a special place and it's fun to see your findings.

I must tell everyone you are Shedmaster in your own right and have a site everyone would enjoy visitingNorthernWhitetails (http://www.geocities.com/northernwhitetails/).

Anyway, we have had a pretty good season in Iowa and us archers/muzzleloaders start back again next week so hopefully we will have some more pics and stories to share.

Take care,

http://www.iowawhitetail.com/confboardpics/tlhs.jpg

[JLC]

This is an email I recieved from a friend that lives by Cedar Rapids.
I am waiting for a picture from him.
I went to a friends house who had a shed he tripped over in a crp field and
you won't believe how big it is! It is a six point shed that has 7.5" bases
and is 6" mass all the way through! If the other side matches and it has a
20" spread it is a 218" typical! I am going to see if I can take it for a
couple of days and get some pictures of it! The one side alone scores 98
7/8. It is huge

Jack

[Northern Whitetails]

I would love to see that shed -- it sounds like a massive whitetail and obviously world class.

I have only seen 3 or 4 typical sheds that score over 90 inches -- in other people's collections! One of my personal goals is to find a 90 inch typical and a 100 inch non-typical in my shedhunting 'career'. A tall order but it will be fun trying!

[Patrick]

JLC, I think your friend(tm) told me about the same shed yesterday. Small world.

A friend has a deer feeder in his back yard that he just started putting corn in this last weekend. He's had two buck in this week missing one antler. This cold weather may get them dropping early this year. Becareful how you drag them out late season.

[Admin]

JLC,

This is exciting, would love to see a pic!

NW, JLC,

Remember this pic? We all know that anything is possible, Knifehandle was a great example...


http://www.iowawhitetail.com/confboardpics/biggestshed.jpg

[Northern Whitetails]

I just received an e-mail from Bentley Coben, one of the most respected and knowledgeable shed hunters in the country.

He had sent me a picture of a 221 non-typical from his neck of the woods and told me of a few other great whitetails that he had heard of from central Saskatchewan.

At the end of his message, he stated that the big whitetails should be dropping their antlers soon -- and that he usually finds his best sheds before Christmas. Keep in mind that this is coming from a shed hunter that has more Boone and Crockett sheds than you can shake a stick at. If that's not motivation to get out looking in the early season, I don't know what is!

Here is a picture of Bentley with a set of typical sheds that he found a few years ago -- the net typical score is 200 inches.

http://www.geocities.com/northernwhitetails/bentley_coben.jpg