Post by: Tbob on April 08, 2020, 07:33:53 PM
I’m trying not to get discouraged if you can’t tell?! Haha. I went out the other day and logged 6 hours and 6 miles and nothing! Lol..
Post by: Buckhunter24 on April 08, 2020, 07:54:48 PM
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Post by: KP-Skagit on April 09, 2020, 07:26:50 AM
While deer hunting or chukar hunting, 100%! Or maybe it feels that way because I am not really looking for sheds.
I always seem to find a good elk shed while chukar hunting that I can't pass up but can't carry effectively. It almost always costs me a few birds by slowing getting the gun to the shoulder. Or at least that is what I tell everyone......
Post by: mburrows on April 09, 2020, 07:51:21 AM
While purposely looking for sheds TERRIBLE. Maybe 1 in 8.
While deer hunting or chukar hunting, 100%! Or maybe it feels that way because I am not really looking for sheds.
I always seem to find a good elk shed while chukar hunting that I can't pass up but can't carry effectively. It almost always costs me a few birds by slowing getting the gun to the shoulder. Or at least that is what I tell everyone......
Same here! Antelope hunting seems my most effective method for shed hunting.
Found a set of deer sheds a couple weeks ago and it always surprises me how quickly the chipmunks chew away at them.
Post by: Tbob on April 09, 2020, 09:20:38 AM
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on April 09, 2020, 04:55:39 PM
Deer for Eastside muley, bench bucks, and Blacktail in southern Oregon it's also a high percentage. Probably not quite as good as elk, but still average a find per trip or so. The "epic" days fewer tho. Low country Blacktail are like gold! With the dog I do better, but bucks themselves are so scattered and utilize such a small living space that time of year combined with vegetation and I think I'm at about a 25 percent success rate. Maybe 1 every 4 to 5 trips. BUT if I can find the buck before he drops or stumble on an area I know is a bucks core area, my odds of finding that deers sheds are very high. Moose, I have never gone to look but have stumbled on several incidentals. So feel lucky!
Post by: cbond3318 on April 10, 2020, 05:42:42 PM
Post by: ThurstonCokid on April 10, 2020, 05:48:26 PM
Tried twice, found this. About 9 miles total. (I’m not very good i guess)
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Post by: dilleytech on April 16, 2020, 06:44:38 AM
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.
Post by: TommyH on April 16, 2020, 08:35:45 AM
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.
9 is I believe the most I’ve pulled in a day also. Actually got that 9 in about 3 hours, all white tails.
Post by: dilleytech on April 16, 2020, 09:03:59 AM
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.
9 is I believe the most I’ve pulled in a day also. Actually got that 9 in about 3 hours, all white tails.
My 9 was like 10 hours and 13 miles. It’s hard work
Post by: crabcreekhunter on April 18, 2020, 02:55:01 PM
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Post by: dilleytech on April 20, 2020, 11:31:22 AM
I found 4-5 on a little flat about 1/2 acre in size in Montana, one has a bullet hole thru it.
I had a small meadow about 200 yards round. In one year at least 12 bucks shed around that meadow. Including one crazy big bench buck. That’s was about 5 years ago. I go back once a year to check and have not found one shed there since. Some times the stars align just right.
Post by: Tbob on April 21, 2020, 10:45:57 AM
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!
Post by: Tbob on April 21, 2020, 10:47:25 AM
I found 4-5 on a little flat about 1/2 acre in size in Montana, one has a bullet hole thru it.
I had a small meadow about 200 yards round. In one year at least 12 bucks shed around that meadow. Including one crazy big bench buck. That’s was about 5 years ago. I go back once a year to check and have not found one shed there since. Some times the stars align just right.
I’m so so waiting for one of those days when it’s pouring sheds!! Haha.
Post by: Onewhohikes on April 21, 2020, 11:49:31 AM
Post by: dilleytech on April 22, 2020, 10:11:11 AM
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.
Post by: Tbob on April 22, 2020, 12:58:00 PM
Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on April 25, 2020, 10:16:03 PM
Doug
Post by: dilleytech on April 26, 2020, 09:28:59 AM
Nothing like scoring a nice Shed as the snow melts in the spring........Now that's a Shed! :yike:
Doug
Not a shed..
Post by: AL WORRELLS KID on April 26, 2020, 03:20:43 PM
(Mom always taught me, to look before you leap!) :dunno:
Doug
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Post by: Tbob on May 06, 2020, 07:40:50 PM
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.
Post by: Buckhunter24 on May 06, 2020, 08:23:44 PM