Harvesting bucks after finding sheds

[nyshedder]

How many of you guys harvest bucks that you have collected the sheds from? I have taken two bucks in the last 3 years. I have found their sheds the previous years. The first buck, I found his sheds in March of 99, both sides in the same field they scored 141 3/8 NYS Big Buck club awards a 16" spread credit, he was a basic 5x5 with two kickers. I harvested him in November of that year he grossed 151 3/8 and nets 149 5/8. Last spring I found one side of an 8 pt that I suspected he survived the hunting season. It scored 52", I never went back looking for his other side I wish I had cause I harvested him on November 19th with my muzzleloader he still carried 8 pts and he green scored 159 3/8 with less than 1" of deduction!! He was a true monster of a buck by NY standards he has 27" main beams! If his score holds up he will be the #2 muzzleloader buck ever taken in the state!!

[MadisonB&C]

My brother and I found a machted set (4x4)a few yards apart in a field a couple years ago. Would have scored somewhere around 127" with deductions. That year it had started a little kicker off of each G-2, and the left G-3 was dramatically shorter than the right. That year someone took it with a bow. It scored around 140". Those kickers had grown out a bit, and so had the left G-3.

I had a similiar experience in northern Alberta 4 years ago. I had found one side of a big Non-typical that scored 214 7/8 with the other side estimated. We hunted hard the next year but only saw him once. The following year a guy 7 miles away killed the deer and that year it netted 228 3/8. I would have loved to have gotten him. I never expected him to travel so far. Just goes to show you, you can never predict whitetail behavior completley. I just wanted to share my story. thanks

P.S. This site is the most informative i've ever run across. Glad to be part of it.

[This message has been edited by Triplebeam (edited 02-18-2002).]

A few years back I picked up a matched set of sheds, they were about 300 yards apart and I found them one week apart. The next year I took the buck right between the spots I found his sheds in. It was pumped to say the least. It got me really interested in shed hunting and since then I've found a few but never, as far as I know, taken the buck they belonged to.

[JOHN DEERE]

A couple of years ago I was walking my farm property to check out which trees were going to be harvested by a logger, while walking through some cane I stepped on an antler. It had 3 points on it. It had been busted off in a fight, right behind the brow. The following season I harvested a huge 160 inch 8 point. One day I was going thru my shed pile, and decided to hold the broke antler next to the mount. It was a match. I couldn't believe it. Interestingly, I harvested the deer 4 miles north of where I found the antler.

[OLETOM]

Hey there,

Ya, it happened to me. It all started the year before during Nov. I shot an 11pnt and told my roomate, sure go ahead and use my stand. Well he shot a buck in the neck and never found it. Well I found a shed that spring (5 pnt) one side only. The next year in the same sand 1 day later than the year before I had a dandy come in. 13pnt 151 6/8 typ. Upon caping this animal out there was a scar on the bucks neck both entrance and exit where he had been shot the year before. Thus the left side had some abnormality to it (7pnts) typical 6 with a 5" kicker out the side. The right side which I found the year before went from a 5 to a 6 pnt side. The shed sits on a shelf below the head mount. "JUST AWESOME BABY" as Dick Vittel would say!