Blacktail sheds

[WSU]

Where do people find blacktail sheds?  Clearcuts?  Reprod?  Randomly?

[Mtnwalker]

In my neck of the woods it was usually in older growth bedding areas adjacent to feed.

[Blacktail Sniper]

Where do people find blacktail sheds?  Clearcuts?  Reprod?  Randomly?

I have found them in all those places and even right in the middle of logging roads...

[Mtnwalker]

Found a handful on gravel bars also

[MADMAX]

swamps

[Blacktail Sniper]

So in other words it is safe to say, anywhere that a blacktail walks..has walked, or will walk!!

 

[cougforester]

Found most of mine in old commercially thinned units. But that's also where I spend a lot of my time during work sooo....

[grundy53]

The biggest blacktail shed I've found was in a spot I wouldn't ever go on purpose... but that's the kind of place big blacktail bucks hang.

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[Boss .300 winmag]

My son found one in our pasture once, nice little three point. Thought it was a stick he wanted to throw at the cows. 

[Buckewe]

Usually on the ground.

[Born2late]

Normally i find all mine in big timber.You need to go slow and learn to look down and know more than 25 yards out. Some of my biggest sheds i've walked past more than once because i was going to fast in a area that i knew held sheds.
Although i found a nice matched set checking traps with my son last week that were on the road that was just cleared in a thick tangled jungle.

[fish vacuum]

The only times I've found them without pure luck have been in areas that had persistent snow. Any patches that stay free of snow are likely spots to find sheds.

[h2ofowlr]

I found a dandy BT shed this weekend just out of pure luck as it was laying on the trail in front of me.  Best advise I can offer is look down once in a while.   

[lewy]

Theres to much ground to aimlessly roam so you need to break it down and hit the high % spots, for me it's the bedding areas and the edges of habitat change.

[buggy]

They can be anywhere. My brother and I found ten yesterday.
Reprod- 2
Big Timber- 4
Clear cut- 4
This was all in about a 1/4 square mile. This is an area we hunt regularly so we do know where the deer are at different times of year. Best advice I can give is find fresh sign and look there.

[Watimberghost]

They can be anywhere. My brother and I found ten yesterday.
Reprod- 2
Big Timber- 4
Clear cut- 4
This was all in about a 1/4 square mile. This is an area we hunt regularly so we do know where the deer are at different times of year. Best advice I can give is find fresh sign and look there.

 

[Eric M]

Finding where they aren't can be equally educational. Are you seeing a lot of deer sign where you are looking? For a long time I was finding a shed or 2 every year and they were small ones- forks and even spikes. A shed is a shed, but that wasn't where the bigger bucks were. These were smaller animals still hanging out with the does. Once you find a nice shed, look around at the habitat you are standing in. Once I find an area the animals are frequenting, I've had good luck getting off the main trails-but the biggest one I found this year was on the hike in on a main trail. The other considerations are other people finding them first, coyotes picking them up, and the fact that they can be hard to see. I'm far from being an expert but walk slowly. Twice this year I nearly stepped on a shed that if I hadn't been creeping, I would have missed. Several times I think to myself I've found a shed in a spot just like this before, looked down and saw one. Also, I've started to trust my sub conscious mind. If something tells you to look on the trail to the right, do it. I've had good luck with this. My theory is I might be seeing something my brain isn't quite registering. Or it could just look right. I've found a fair amount just getting out of the truck and on the way back to the truck. I think after awhile you can lose focus and during these times I'm concentrating more. Anyway, I didn't plan to write a book. The more you get out the more you'll find. Also wearing a lucky hat helps.

[Eric M]

Hard to see examples