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Who is shed hunting?!

Neighbor told me he thinks a buck shed out on our farm, haven't found anything the two times I've looked. I had to slow down for a 2.5 yr old 10 standing on the highway last night on the way to the farm, both sides still intact.
 
Varies across the neighborhoods, but I'm seeing nearly 2/3 shed out already it seems! Still too early to go look for me. Hate to bump them out while times are tough
 
Going to double the number of cams (from 7 to 14) on 18 acres this weekend to see what survived/is still holding.
 
My deer were really spread out over this last winter because of the good weather conditions. Never really grouped back up until last couple weeks. I probably ought to walk some deep dark timber and look
 
Found one after a landlord burned a brush pile and it flared up and burned some headlands and waterways up. Standing there watching the fire department put it out and there was a tall shed from a 2 year old laying there. In a place where we mow for hay so coulda cost me a tire repair pretty easy and definitely not in a place I would have looked for sheds.20250303_205222.jpg
 
Corn ground and shed hunting sucks,!

Can't even fathom how many I've missed doing so.

Overall, went into this late season being about the most optimistic for years.
Am totally disappointed in what I've found. Dismally pathetic.

Like a dream of Cindy Crawford only to see Rosie O'Donnell. :confused:
 
Bucksnbears said:
Corn ground and shed hunting sucks,!

Can't even fathom how many I've missed doing so.

Overall, went into this late season being about the most optimistic for years.
Am totally disappointed in what I've found. Dismally pathetic.

Like a dream of Cindy Crawford only to see Rosie O'Donnell. :confused:
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Lol, I can relate
 
Im at 35 on the year. Its not been easy, usually just coming up with 1 or 2 each time out. A couple weekend days I've hiked over 10 miles and came up empty. Few reasons...1. fewer deer than usual. 2. More people than ever shed hunting 3. Mild winter has the deer spread out.
 
I walked a property today, no sheds found. I did find a buck skull, probably 2 -3 years old, with the antlers sawed off above the brow tines. From the looks of it, there probably wasn't a lot above the brows, guessing 1.5 yr old.

Pulled camera cards deployed Feb 2. Not an antler to be seen, but there is a standing corn half mile north. That should be a shed fest.
 
Haven't had time to shed hunt yet but planning on going out today. I just got permission to shed hunt a farm I used to hunt for 18 years until the landowner passed away and her daughter wouldn't allow anymore hunting. That was 2011. I stopped by to ask her and offered her some help keeping trespassers out after she told my wife that there were 10 stands in her 40-acre woods.

She seen several vehicles parked along the timber driving by one day and stopped to let the air out of their tires! One guy walked up to her and pointed a gun at her chest!!! There is a small cemetery on the property that I always kept mowed so they could drive up to it, just their family there. It was overtaken by briars now. I told her I would keep it mowed again and keep assholes out if I could shed hunt there, that's where I'll be looking today. I have a feeling the A-holes have already stomped through there, but it is so thick you would have to crawl through about 18 acres of it so maybe I'll find some.
 
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