Sheds From The Road?

[Admin]

Has anyone ever spotted a shed while driving? I found one the other day while cruising around, it was laying out in a beanfield. I have to admit I was looking, always do when I am driving this time of year. I realize it's not exactly safe but I still keep my eyes on the road most of the time http://www.iowawhitetail.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

TLH

[pete]

I found a small shed in a hayfield that I had been checking every day on my way to work. I know it wasn't there that morning I'm sure I would have seen on my drive by.
I also found one in a road ditch two years ago when my friend was driving.


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[HBH]

TLH,

It dont work that way for me. Kinda makes me sick when my buddy in Alberta tells of picking up a set "Oh go about 180" or so nothing huge" on the way to the store. Course I tell him he's full of it and then just stare when he sends a photo.

HBH

[Admin]

HBH,

How does the saying go, "I'd rather be lucky than good any day".

TLH

PS, maybe it's the other way around?

I have found two from the road. One was pure luck, was driving along about 30mph and saw about 6" of the end of the main beam sticking up in some limbs from a deadfall. Had I not looked directly at it I believe it still would be laying there. Found another side 1/4 mile away from that shed from the road too, the next day. Suprised the heck out of me, two different antlers that close together, both spotted from a car. I'll take em when I can get em!

[BIG GUY]

I've never found a shed while driving, even though my wife says I spend more time searching fields than I spend watching the road. I came pretty close this year. I was driving home after shed hunting and saw a group of deer a 1/4 mile out in a field. I stopped to glass them to see if any had horns. While glassing I saw something that looked alot like a shed so I cranked up the power on the spotting scope and there lay a 56" 4 point.

[cedartree]

ive found 4 total from the raod. i found two from the road saturday. one was a 55" 4 point, the other was a 61" 4pt. on the way to get the big one, i spotted another 4pt, that one was 42".

[Travis]

The other weekend my dad and I were driving down the highway when I thought I spotted a whitetail shed laying on the other side of the fence by the road. We backed up and sure anough it was a 7 point whitetail shed with a 4 inch droptine from what looked to be last year! I figure a coyote or dog drug it out there because Im sure it wouldnt have layed there for a year without some one spotting it.

heres a pic of it.

http://albums.photopoint.com/j/View?u=1623191&a=12399238&p=45635249&Sequence=0

We have also spotted a couple elk sheds way up on open slopes from our vehicle while spotting for them. http://www.iowawhitetail.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif

[IAdroptine]

Great find Travis, wish I had that type of road hazards around here.

[TJF]

I have only found one along the road while driving. Any place I see a deer trails crossing the road in the winter, I always slow down and look.

Tim

[Admin]

Wow, what a great find, thanks for sharing!

TLH

[Iowa1]

Okay I gotta tell my story. I was fishing up by Morson, Ontario in October a few years ago and we were coming back down that long, narrow blacktop desolate pulling my boat with my buddy driving his pickup. I was just watching as we drove when I thought I saw what looked like three upright tines sticking up out in a clearing. I couldn't believe it would really be a shed only 50 yards from the road, and in October no less. I just figured I was seeing things. But it was bugging me like crazy for about five minutes when I finally blurted, "we gotta go back, I can't stand it." So we found a place to turn the rig around and went back. I found the place again and walked out there. It was a 76-inch five point with the other side lying right beside it with the points down!!!! the match was 74 inches. Unbelieveable. Thank goodness I went back. Unfortunately, that set and all my other good ones were destroyed in a fire last November.

[IAdroptine]

Iowa1,
Good story, Bad ending. Hope your life is getting back to some kind of normal.

Keep an eye out!

Mike

We had to share this photo from one of our favorite hunting magazines! We called Garry Donald yesterday of Big Buck Magazine and he gave us the ok to publish. By the way, Mike Borle ( Northern Whitetail ) has had some great articles in this magazine, it's worth getting, comes out of Canada.

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

Can you see the shed? BigBuckMagazine (http://www.bigbuckmag.com/)

[JLC]

Here is a picture I have on my site. Bob Oden from Waukon found it years ago when driving back from Decorah.
Jack http://www.geocities.com/vf32ae2/oden.html

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[cedartree]

JLC,
I shed hunt near Decorah alot, and I was just wondering how close to Decorah Bob found that antler.

[IAdroptine]

JLC, thanks for sharing the photo of Bob's big shed with us us shed addicts. Thats what we all dream about, big sheds.

While on the subject, just got off the phone with my brother, he found a large shed from the road on his way home after 3 1/2 hours of hunting prime ground whitout spotting a thing. It was where eneryone in the county could and would have found it if not for the deep drifts that kept the road closed until this week. He guessed around 70 inches, I will let you know after I pick it up this weekend. Great brother, he lets me have all the sheds he finds, can't beat that.

[Admin]

JLC,

Nice shed, scary pic of you http://www.iowawhitetail.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

Got your bow ready to thump a big Tom (again) this year?

Nice to have you on the site!

TLH

[IAdroptine]

I was out with my brother today and picked up the big shed. Super 5 point with a kicker off the 9" brow tine. Measures 73 2/8", will post photos when back. Mike

[T-Buck]

About two weeks ago a couple of my friends were out driving looking for deer. We pulled into a resort road. Many deer have been wintering in this area. The weather had been warm the previous couple of days and much of the snow had melted. I spotted an antler about twelve feet from the road. It was laying tines down in a puddle of water under a spruce. Only a portion of the main beam was showing. My friend first thought it was a tree root when i told him were to look. It was a 56 inch four point with a 1 1/4 sticker coming off the base.

[Northern Whitetails]

That is a great picture of Bill Longman and the roadside shed in Saskatchewan! I can just see Garry's face driving down the road in his jeep, and then doing a major double-take at the long tines sticking up through the grass!

Big Buck Magazine is the bible for deer hunters and shed hunters here in western Canada, you guys should really give it a look!

Big Buck Magazine Website (http://www.bigbuckmag.com)

One of the shed hunters that we had up from Wisconsin found a great shed with a big sticker point on the base while she was looking out the window of Jeff Lander's pickup. I'll see if I can get a photo of it for you to see.

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[TJF]

Since I last posted a reply to finding them along the road, between my son Tyler and I, we have spotted 4 more from the road. The last one is the biggest shed that I found to date, but I've got to give Tyler alot of the credit in finding it. A week and a half ago we were driving by a harvested corn field of the boss's and Tyler thought he saw something right off the road. I backed up so he could take a better look, but he figured he was just seeing things, so we drove off. A couple days ago, I was back up in the area and it was bugging me. We had walked the corn patch before and hadn't found anything, but there was still snow from the road out to about 20 feet into the corn. The snow was gone now and I figured I should at least check it out. I stopped along side the road right where he had thought he had seen something and sure enough, there was a left side 5pt (65 7/8) laying about 15 feet in from the edge of the corn field. Boy was he pumped up when I came home with the shed. That changed pretty fast, when I told him were I found it. He was pretty bummed. I told him , that if it wasn't for him, that shed would still be laying there, so we could both claim it. That made him feel a little better. He said from now on, if he sees anything that even remotely resembles a shed, we will check it out!! I got a good chuckle out of that one. In some ways I feel guilty not going home to get him and let him find it, but I felt it was a good lesson for him, that he should not over look anything, when it comes to shed hunting. At the beginning of this shed hunting season, I have tried to make sure he got the best spots, so he could find alot and really get excited about it. I've guided him to a few sheds that were on my side, with out him knowing I had already seen them. Granted he has found alot on his own and probably didn't need my help. But the last few weeks, I've been making him pick a side and ask him why he thinks that side is better. I want him to pay attention to the area and deer sign. Why scouting the deer herds in the winter is so important for shed hunting. I want him to make some mistakes so he can learn from them. All these lessons he learns from shed hunting, he will be able to apply to hunting. I want him to pay attention to everything around him, not just wandering aimlessly around hoping to stumble over a shed.

Tim

[IAdroptine]

Good advice Tim and Congrats to you both.