why??

[Chris_D.]

why is it so fun to look for a shed??

[saylean]

It's like an easter egg hunt...I never really have done it until i started officially shed hunting last year...to find one is so cool, cause they are all unique in some way. My first find was a 7 pt elk shed. I mean, I have found sheds before, but only kept a few. In fact, I kick myself cause I used to have a place that had a ton of muley sheds and I would just let them lay most of the time. Seemed like under all the trees....Anyway, when you find one, it makes me wonder about the buck/bull...also tells you what was/is in the area.

Plus, you get to go outdoors and just enjoy it. I have been shed hunting several times this year and have only found one 3 pt muley and 2 spikes....wasted more gas and money than i should have for sure...but I will be going out again as soon as i can.

But thats just my take on it.

[ICEMAN]

You learn alot about bucks by looking for and finding an antler.

It also clears my mind, to hike all day, grid searching some crappy steep country, looking for an antler. When you see one, it is truly a rush.

[billythekidrock]

Yes, what the two posts above stated...My question to you is "Why not?"

[Skyvalhunter]

Could be his age.

[Chris_D.]

Yes, what the two posts above stated...My question to you is "Why not?"

well cuz i dont really like to walk!! 

[hogsniper]

Its just another reason to be out an about. I have only found a handful of sheds but my addiction started when I found one on accident. Which I previously posted a pic of. Now i am looking at all times! 

[jdb]

i was the same way until I found one now I am hooked. JB

[klickriverchromer]

yeh,  until you know the feeling, it can't be explained easy.

[ShirtGuy77]

 well cuz i dont really like to walk!! 
[/quote]

Looks like another road hunter in the making

I haven't done it in Washington, but to me it is alot like hunting itself to me.  Just being outdoors away from traffic, cell phones, work, email...the list goes on and on.

Truley able to just wash away all my troubles when in the woods.  Just love it.

[Coasthunterjay]

i was the same way until I found one now I am hooked. JB

Yah, i guess i was the same....I was younger and was really only ou to find the prize at the end of my bullet. Which to all of us was a deer, untill i literally stepped and stumbled over a dandy 5 point whitie shed. I was so amazed by the color, shape, size, and bumps, ridges, well really even the smell that the horn had....I figured i must have just missed the buck that dropped it, cuz it hadnt been there long....

After that i have kind of always just payed a bit closer attention to finding the horns....I still have the goal at the end of the road.....But like what a few other people have said.....to find those big horns, and to hunt so hard and miss those big deer. Makes me feel good that im out there with the potential to shoot a MONSTER DEER....a real wall hanger....so if i find horns thats cool. If i dont, thats fine also.......But i think of it kind of as the deers way as rewarding us with a easter egg hunt......the prize is in the egg, or horn.

[Bigshooter]

Chris_D I'm with you.  I get no thrill from picking up sheds.  When I find them sometimes I won't even pick them up if I am along ways from the truck. 

[alecvg]

why wouldnt you want sheds, its more antler!

[zackmioli]

the few times i have stumbled onto sheds its been an awesome feeling. ill probably start paying more attention this year while im walking around. especially cuz where i found them is on the private property i hunt on, so i start thinking about the buck that dropped it and where he must be. 

[Chris_D.]

Chris_D I'm with you.  I get no thrill from picking up sheds.  When I find them sometimes I won't even pick them up if I am along ways from the truck. 

thank you!! and if i happen to find one than i would probably pick it up tho..

[boneaddict]

Its the potential and the fact every antler is different.  You just don't know.  Thos ewith character really can get you hooked.  I currently have the #2 shed in the world for a Typical Muledeer and its from Washington.   What does that tell you about potential even here in Washington.  I will spend the rest of my life trying to find "its match".

[Intruder]

I currently have the #2 shed in the world for a Typical Muledeer and its from Washington.   

Have you already posted photos?  I'd love to see it.

[WDFW-SUX]

Got a pic?

[Gutpile]

well cuz i dont really like to walk!! 

I don't believe I've ever read that sentence on a hunting website.   At least your honest.

[Chris_D.]

i mean like i wouldn't want to do it for fun...i dont mind walking ......i would walk if i was carrying a gun looking for a deer.........or just scouting

[boneaddict]

I posted a not so good picture of one of my daughters with it, but not any others.  I was going to get one of it in the eyeguard thread as its a dandy.   I'll see if I have any others.  Really doesn't do the antler justice until you hold it up to like my 33 inch buck.  He would have a square rack and probably be about an inch wider. 

[boneaddict]

Basically Chris, its a way to legally find bone in a different season.  To Some people hunting means a whole different thing and that is just fine.

[billythekidrock]

i mean like i wouldn't want to do it for fun...i dont mind walking ......i would walk if i was carrying a gun looking for a deer.........or just scouting

Just consider shed hunting as scouting and you will learn alot. Why not do it and carry a camera instead of a gun. Besides, when you are deer hunting you shouldn't spend too much time looking at the ground.lol

[Jerome]

When he stumbles across 1 then he will be addicted. 

[Smokepole]

Geez, C.D., I'm surprised you don't get it.  The more you walk, the more the hills lay down for you.

I look for reasons to walk and climb.  Mushroooms, trout, deer, elk, sheds....you name it.  Been walking so long, if I quit it makes me physically ill.  So I keep doing it so I can feel good. 

Try hunting some sheds.  Pretty soon you're legs will be big as fire hydrants, like mine -- and you'll dig the hell out of stomping straight up the mountainside, looking for just about any old thing.

[robodad]

I may be partially to blame for Chris's lack of experience in shed hunting and the questions he has concerning it, We live on the west side and shed hunting is quite a bit more difficult when you cannot see the forest floor, sure there are places where you could get lucky and find a few if you were the only one that new about it.

It is just not a hobby we picked up over here and the cost of fuel and lack of knowledge of the shed hunting areas on the east side prevent us from making it a hobby, I would love to take Chris on a shed hunting adventure cause I know what it is like being from Wisconsin.

There is a ton of things that Chris will ask questions about since he is quite young and really just getting his feet wet so to speak in the outdoors. I know for a fact that he likes to walk and work and play games and mountain bike all over the place.

I keep telling him to quit asking why and quietly observe, and he has been doing pretty good until he found the poll section here on huntwa and I guess he just can't help himself !!  He is learning thanks to all of you being patient with his questions, don't worry I am sure there will be more to come !! Stay tuned   

[billythekidrock]

Shed hunting is hard on the Westside...and that is why I appreciate every one I find. I see these pics of guys finding 3,4, 5 sheds a trip and I wish it were that easy over here.

[boneaddict]

Most of you should be glad that not everyone is interested in finding sheds.  I know I rather enjoyed it back in the 80's when nobody even cared about them.   

[DOUBLELUNG]

I'm with Bone on this one - except I generally give them away to a friend's wife who uses them as handles for the willow baskets she crafts and sells. 

I knew I wasn't in Wyoming anymore, though, when some a.. trespassed into my Wenatchee yard to steal all the big chalky whites I had decorating my flower bed.  I do miss being able to go onto vehicle-accessible public land in the spring, after the deer leave, and pick up 6-10 big browns and 10-30 whites in a day, without ever seeing another soul.  I don't think that opportunity exists any more in Wyoming either.

[addicted]

i heard if we get caught out in the woods around here(germany) the forestmiester will throw a fit. that source is not very reliable on this subject though

[boneaddict]

I don't know if German is big enough for a couple Washington boys.

[DOUBLELUNG]

Call it evasion and escape training

[addicted]

the guys in the shop and i were talking about how the ability to hunt effects the type of men in the area. example was that in a place like washington where you can just go buy the license and tag guys like to grow beards and barbeque when they can, and that in a place like germany where the licensing process can take years a lot of men shave their armpits.

[boneaddict]

Men shave their pits but the girls don't....Now thats just weird.

[Head-shot]

Men shave their pits but the girls don't....Now thats just weird.

But some of the girls DO shave their mustaches

[addicted]

Men shave their pits but the girls don't....Now thats just weird.

But some of the girls DO shave their mustaches

 

[cohoho]

Had several exercises in Aushanburg, can't remember the spelling, but anyhow, we were defending an area so we put up trips with Ground Burst Simulators (GBS)attached to trees about ten feet up, to scare the living crap out of the guys attacking us...  Anyhow it worked, too good...  The Forest Miester was pissed, we blew the tops off about twenty pines.  They kicked us out of the training area and we had a two year restriction.  They are serious about the woods and the wildlife. Have to be a member of a hunting club and put in your time as a assistant before you'd ever be allowed to hunt, unless you pay the BIG dollars.  Spent six years there and never hunted anything at all....  Huge Russian Boars would be everywhere out in the woods.  Mean some of a guns also....