Success rate??

[dilleytech]

Wow man! I wish I found em like that!

It’s one of those things.. the more you find the easier they are to see. They key is find where the deer are and cover every square inch with your eyes. If you’re just walking through areas you’re missing most of them for sure.

But that’s nothing. The states out east with better game numbers, it’s not uncommon for guys to come home with over 20 a day. My personal record is 9 in Washington.

Some good advice. I generally just slowly wander around. I don’t “grid” areas I guess, I just get so distracted.. I’ll be walking along a line and see a little opening so I wander over there, then I think I’ll go back the way i came, but then see a little trail going over there, so I follow it, then there’s a little bench looking thing up over that little rise so I might as well go check that too while I’m here... it just goes on and on.... but I do walk fairly slow. I think I avg about a mile per hour or so, so it’s pretty slow going and looking at least...
    Would you recommend more “gridding” type patterns rather than the random slow walks that I end up eventually doing? Just trying to increase my odds of not getting skunked so much.. lol.. and thank you!

Yes when you find an area with a lot of good sign I would try to cover as much of that ground as possible. You can call it gridding but it’s more like oh I wonder what’s on the other side of that bush over there? Just try to cover as much ground as you can in the area with sign. Think of it like mushroom hunting. You know they are there somewhere but if your not looking at every square inch of ground your going to miss them. You can move at a pretty good pace but I would really slow down when you find the area they are hanging out in. Not just traveling through.

[Tbob]

Right on man! Thanks for the heads up. I’m headed out tomorrow for a little over nighter. Gonna look for sheds and morels while I’m at it. Ha.

[AL WORRELLS KID]

Nothing like scoring a nice Shed as the snow melts in the spring........Now is that a Shed! 
Doug

[dilleytech]

Nothing like scoring a nice Shed as the snow melts in the spring........Now that's a Shed! 
Doug

Not a shed..

[AL WORRELLS KID]

Better Shed than Dead!
 (Mom always taught me, to look before you leap!) 
Doug

[Tbob]

Went out again for 7 miles through tons of good area and so much fresh sign. Not one shed! I did however find a sweet bleached out porcupine skull so that was cool. But dang, looked at my last few hikes and I’m now at 22.6 miles and no sheds..

[Tbob]

Went out again on the westside the other day (On 5/5) and spent a solid 6 hours in 3 different spots, And nothing! Super good looking habitat and tons of sign.. skunked!
    So I talked the wife into a mid-week camping trip on the Eastside. She agreed to help me find some sheds! Lol. Headed out tomorrow.

[Buckhunter24]

That ought to do the trick,  got my wife to go with me we picked up a fresh set of whitetail within the first hour. That's the only time she's been out so she thinks it's pretty easy lol