collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Shed Hunting Tips  (Read 2666 times)

Offline aklark

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Pilgrim
  • *
  • Join Date: Feb 2014
  • Posts: 3
  • Location: Tacoma
Shed Hunting Tips
« on: February 22, 2014, 02:06:00 PM »
Howdy,

New guy here. I'm a military transplant from the Midwest, so I don't know very much about elk. I recently decided that I should go out and find some sheds and do some scouting for future seasons. I've gone out a few times in the western Olympic National Forest, mostly walking brushy flats along rivers. I've found plenty of tracks, scat, rubs, etc but no sheds. Do I just need to keep at it? Am I looking in the right place? Too early? Any advice appreciated. Thanks!

Online Big6bull

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2013
  • Posts: 530
  • Location: Wet side
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2014, 02:10:15 PM »
Keep at it and keep looking down. Will be old sheds. Another month till elk start dropping fresh though :twocents:

Offline huntandjeep

  • Trade Count: (+13)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2009
  • Posts: 2905
  • Location: West Valley , Yakima
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2014, 08:25:53 PM »
 :yeah:
Anyone that thinks a Glock is better than a 1911 paints his toenails.
Yakima Valley Mountaineers

Offline scotsman

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+12)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2010
  • Posts: 782
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2014, 11:34:19 AM »
Look for where elk trails cross logs, steep banks, etc where they might jump across. The impact when they jump knocks the antlers loose.

Offline heavy hauler

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2008
  • Posts: 1366
  • Location: t90
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2014, 06:54:00 PM »
look around april. south facing slopes  :tup:
you cant eat the horns, but backstraps look like crap on my wall!!!!

Offline gasman

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Dec 2008
  • Posts: 6377
  • Location: Tacoma,wa
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #5 on: February 24, 2014, 07:10:09 PM »
Cover lots of ground.

Look Down

Glass adjacent hill side with binos.
Gasman


It's 5 O'clock somewhere.......

Offline HUNTINCOUPLE

  • Lost Somewhere on the Praire of Klickitat Co. Chasing The Elusive BENCHLEG DEERS.
  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Jan 2009
  • Posts: 8153
  • Location: Lyle WA, 98635
  • Yep, my avatar is from my front porch. #2835
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #6 on: February 24, 2014, 07:50:32 PM »
Look at the ground and in some bushes...
Slap some bacon on a biscut and lets go, were burrnin daylight!

Most peoples health is a decision not a condition?

Kill your television!  ICEMAN SAID TO!

Life Member of Hunting  Washington  Forum.

Time in the woods is more important than timing the moon.

Offline 400out

  • Radio Active YAR
  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2009
  • Posts: 5451
  • Location: in a bunker
  • HA HA! VERY FUNNY!
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2014, 03:54:10 PM »
Follow other members  :peep:







 :chuckle:
Granted the ability to cause a A nuclear explosion that produces a rapid release of energy from a higher power resulting in the sudden and catastrophic demise of a thread.

Confucius say:
A crowded elevator smells different to a midget!
Man that go to bed with itchy butt wake up with stinky fingers!
Man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.

Offline jackmaster

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 7011
  • Location: graham
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #8 on: February 25, 2014, 03:59:05 PM »
Follow other members  :peep:







 :chuckle:
:yeah: :yeah: :chuckle: follow trophyhunt, he finds them on 167 :chuckle:
my grandpa always said "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Offline hardrichard

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jan 2014
  • Posts: 165
  • Location: whitehorse
  • Groups: NRA,
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #9 on: March 05, 2014, 05:18:47 PM »
Stay with it  :tup: you might not find any after several trips or you might find a couple on one trip into the bush it's hunting :chuckle:

Offline aklark

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Pilgrim
  • *
  • Join Date: Feb 2014
  • Posts: 3
  • Location: Tacoma
Re: Shed Hunting Tips
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2014, 10:16:36 PM »
Thanks for all the replies!

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

European mounts around Spokane by washingtonmuley
[Today at 09:20:31 AM]


Idaho on the verge of outlawing by NOCK NOCK
[Today at 09:13:15 AM]


Dehydrating Chantrelles by ASHQUACK
[Today at 09:10:20 AM]


2025 Deer season by hunter399
[Today at 09:02:52 AM]


Winthrop - Winter Range Road Closures by Schmalzfam
[Today at 08:52:44 AM]


2025 blacktail rut thread by Cylvertip
[Today at 08:50:47 AM]


Rylee’s first Mule deer! by Schmalzfam
[Today at 08:45:09 AM]


wyoming pronghorn draw by finnman
[Today at 08:44:02 AM]


2025 deer, let's see em! by Nate p
[Today at 08:07:27 AM]


Japanese Kei truck? by trophyhunt
[Today at 07:20:27 AM]


re-barreling a gun by outdooraddict
[Today at 07:16:23 AM]


Blue Tongue and EHD outbreak in NE Washington by Shooter4
[Today at 06:22:29 AM]


Color phase fox by JakeLand
[Today at 04:25:22 AM]


Wyoming elk who's in? by ganghis
[Yesterday at 10:43:39 PM]


CWD drop off station- What a joke! by ganghis
[Yesterday at 07:50:49 PM]


No tracking dogs in Weyerhaeuser by kodiak06
[Yesterday at 07:29:34 PM]


MANDATORY REPORTING AND SUBMISSION FOR 100 GMU's!!! by kodiak06
[Yesterday at 07:22:37 PM]


GROUSE 2025...the Season is looming! by Boss .300 winmag
[Yesterday at 07:18:41 PM]


Early Huckleberry Bull Moose tag drawn! by Falcon
[Yesterday at 07:05:32 PM]


Bearpaw Season 2025 by bearpaw
[Yesterday at 06:30:41 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal