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Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 01:04:50 PM

Title: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 01:04:50 PM: I spotted a buck on the hill and got set up to take his pic. I noticed another buck laying behind him. Then as I took pics, one of his antelrs disappeared. Then he had one. Then the other buck walked over to him and nudge him and he got up and the other fell off. I didn't go get them as I didn't want to disturb the deer. Its unlikely anyone else will walk there eventhough its a popular spot, just because of where it is at. I actually found the buck because I have found sheds here twice before and thought, I should see if there is a buck there. They were only small ones, but no matter I love bone. If they were off a deer like the one Slider has been posting I might have challenged my ethics a bit more. :chuckle: :chuckle:I'll see if any of my pics turned out
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: rougheye on December 24, 2008, 01:14:14 PM: That would have been soooo cool if you got them in the air .
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: NWTFhunter on December 24, 2008, 01:14:41 PM: I cant restrain myself.......... You said you love bone.. :chuckle:

Anyways, what I was going to ask was if I can tag along with you one of these days you decide to go out and go picture crazy ?
I soooo need to get a decent camera.
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: wilsongideon on December 24, 2008, 01:22:36 PM: Thats awesome Mule Deer I suppose?
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: bow4elk on December 24, 2008, 01:24:22 PM: Quote from: NWTFhunter on December 24, 2008, 01:14:41 PM
I cant restrain myself.......... You said you love bone.. :chuckle:

+1
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 01:33:11 PM: I'm pretty secretive NWTF. It cost the last two guys big money for charity. ;) I just looked at the pics and the settings were off or something. Hopefully I can salvage them in RAW. They are MASSIVELY overexposed. There was a couple times I had the setting changed on me. I hope it at least took a RAW image for me. Some settings they don't.
I do love bone, but really try not to harass the animals much this time of year. You'll not my pics get farther away than November. Most of the time the deer don't even booger, though I got into one section where they were kind of spooky from a long ways off. That usually means there is a cat working the area. Now I suppose it could mean cat or wolves. Incidentally, where the wolves are, I didn't hardly find a deer and I normally glass over at least a 1,000 head. I was hard pressed to find 30. I suppose it can be other things, but that isn't a good sign.
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: TheKid#10 on December 24, 2008, 01:35:22 PM: Quote from: bow4elk on December 24, 2008, 01:24:22 PM
Quote from: NWTFhunter on December 24, 2008, 01:14:41 PM
I cant restrain myself.......... You said you love bone.. :chuckle:

+1

+2
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: NWTFhunter on December 24, 2008, 01:47:53 PM: I couldnt resist ! But I think you probably hunt some of the same units I do being you live in Selah. We usually only hunt elk there and deer around Chewelah on the ranch or private land. We did hunt deer up by you one year, but it wasnt very good at all. We didnt see crap for deer while elk hunting this year. I dont know if it was cat, wolf, ticks, weather, or dust ! But they were not around like before.
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: huntnphool on December 24, 2008, 02:16:59 PM: Quote from: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 01:33:11 PM
I hope it at least took a RAW image for me. Some settings they don't.

Bone :bash: This is why you need to start shooting in Av (aperture priority) or Tv (shutter priority), you will be shooting RAW the whole time if you set your camera to RAW in the menu field. ;)
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 03:07:38 PM: I do Rob(almost 100%) but in haste of digging and snapping, sometimes I'll accidentally turn the knob and I'll be shooting in one of the other modes. I'll be like crap! I got my pics back this time and half are real dark and some are almost white. I'll dig intot he settings to see what happened. I dinked with my ISO one time and that might have been it, but I don't think it was these.
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 03:15:30 PM: here is the image I started with. :yike:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Foriginal.jpg&hash=e52bbb21d35b9ba032bb2d937e74c2b2c95e0967)
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 07:33:14 PM: Maybe I am a nutcase, but I know that deer had antlers when I started to get the camera out on him. I just know it. But when I though he lost one and then another, maybe he had lost both. I'm at least half sure I am not crazy. When they got up and moved the other deer kept scenting and licking the ground in spots. I was sure it was because of the blood. :dunno:
(https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv47%2Fboneaddict%2Forg.jpg&hash=3d8c1cdc0d65be51ef945fd541ffb5841de4ec29)
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 24, 2008, 07:35:51 PM: Are you feeling O.K. Bone?
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: boneaddict on December 24, 2008, 07:42:06 PM: for the most part. :rolleyes:
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 24, 2008, 07:46:31 PM: :chuckle:
Title: Re: First Sheds of the year
Post by: Elkslayer on December 24, 2008, 07:48:27 PM: There definately dropping. The kids went out to sprinkle a little corn this morning and came back in with a small 3point freshly dropped.