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Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: huntnnw on March 17, 2013, 08:16:51 AM

Title: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: huntnnw on March 17, 2013, 08:16:51 AM: Took the girlfriend out with the hopes of finding moose paddles yesterday , little to much snow in places. She did find her first ever shed..64" 5pt .. Heavy buck with 4" H4 measurement . Funny thing is we pick up shed and 10 ft away is a trail cam laying on the ground looked like a bear got ahold of it and a old makeshift blind :chuckle:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi200.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Faa139%2Fshanewa300%2F35BBAFB0-16F8-4B38-B383-EF20212E6F5A-11244-00000E02C063D2D7_zps3944a705.jpg&hash=7e710f7ae5cb1b2704fec13afa35a18f62c1c679)
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Post by: scottfrick on March 17, 2013, 09:21:35 AM: Nice :tup:
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Post by: boneaddict on March 17, 2013, 09:26:09 AM: Solid piece of bone there.
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Post by: huntnnw on March 17, 2013, 10:29:42 PM: today we went back up there..took laptop and dumped the SD card out of the trail camera there...got pics of this buck shedding in 2011..lost his antlers on Dec 18th and this one fell off Dec 19th at 0931 :chuckle: buck has some knarly scars on him..his back was peeled open from what looked like a bullet, but heeled up by late feb
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Post by: elkoholic1 on March 18, 2013, 08:42:48 AM: :tup:
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Post by: C-Money on March 18, 2013, 10:38:49 AM: Very cool story! So that shed is from 2011? Looks like its in good shape.
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Post by: Austrian Hunter on March 18, 2013, 11:16:00 AM: Nice, wow, that is a nice WT bone.....
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 10:10:40 PM: yeah..it has a drop of blood under side of it still and the top side where the brow is still brown..I thought it was this years..but as it set in the house and dried there is a few cracks in it and then saw pics of it shed there in 2011
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Post by: Smossy on March 18, 2013, 10:24:47 PM: Great find, what elevation was that one found do you know? I think Im not searching high enough yet.
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Post by: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 10:32:57 PM: 3,000 ft but there was hardly a winter there in 2011 as there is now
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: Smossy on March 18, 2013, 10:39:55 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 10:32:57 PM
3,000 ft but there was hardly a winter there in 2011 as there is now
Yeah I think Im still in the 1500 range, No signs of snow. Do I need to move up higher into the hills then for better chances?
Excuse my questions, I just lack knowledge when it comes to deer activity.
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 10:52:16 PM: it depends on what type of deer and the area really. I have places that are 15 min away that i can get up to 4,000 ft now and its bare and some at 3,000 are buried still
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: Smossy on March 18, 2013, 10:53:13 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 10:52:16 PM
it depends on what type of deer and the area really. I have places that are 15 min away that i can get up to 4,000 ft now and its bare and some at 3,000 are buried still
Ive been lookin around the Mt. Rainier area outside Eatonville.
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 11:30:17 PM: I'm not familiar with that area..or blackies ...Here you need to know where the deer are in late December and January and not necissarliy where u see them now,thats when their antlers fall off here on the whiteys. Sometimes its bone dry here or very little snow in the mts and the bucks will shed up there then winter sets in and buries them or we get dumped on in November and the deer migrate down, so the sheds will vary year to year in some areas.
Title: Re: Hit the hills yesterday
Post by: Smossy on March 18, 2013, 11:32:02 PM: Quote from: huntnnw on March 18, 2013, 11:30:17 PM
I'm not familiar with that area..or blackies ...Here you need to know where the deer are in late December and January and not necissarliy where u see them now,thats when their antlers fall off here on the whiteys. Sometimes its bone dry here or very little snow in the mts and the bucks will shed up there then winter sets in and buries them or we get dumped on in November and the deer migrate down, so the sheds will vary year to year in some areas.
I gotcha, thanks for that advice :)