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Title: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: WASHBCBOOK on March 01, 2010, 04:55:47 PM: LETS START A TOPIC ON THE BEST TIPS IN FINDING SHEDS..LOCATION,TREES,BRUSH,DESERT,GAME TRAILS,HILLS,AND SO ON
I WANT TO SEE WHAT WORKS FOR OTHER SHED HUNTERS SO WE ALL CAN BE BETER SHED HUNTER..
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bearpaw on March 01, 2010, 05:02:19 PM: The guys I know who find the most sheds, have bird dogs trained to help find them. :yike:

You look around and find a few, but the dog covers more country faster, and even retrieves. :twocents:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: boonerboy on March 01, 2010, 05:06:37 PM: knowing where the bucks are before they drop their headgear and "dumb luck"
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: Pathfinder101 on March 01, 2010, 06:17:54 PM: #1 Tip: Don't go anywhere with me. Sheds start digging holes when they hear my truck... :( :'(
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: Huntbear on March 01, 2010, 06:34:53 PM: Time spent in the woods. You can not find em, at Walmart or on the couch watching tv.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: head hunter on March 01, 2010, 06:42:30 PM: once you start finding them look in the same area every year especially elk they like to drop in the same area around the same time each year. I know a guy who picked up a set from the same buck in the same bed three years in a row.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: gasman on March 01, 2010, 06:56:50 PM: Look down :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: rasbo on March 01, 2010, 07:02:28 PM: Quote from: gasman on March 01, 2010, 06:56:50 PM
Look down :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
:chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: rasbo on March 01, 2010, 07:07:16 PM: sw sides of cover work for me..I just follow small trails in and out of good cover..This is wetside Im speaking of..miles in the boots and luck...
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bearhunter99 on March 01, 2010, 07:12:05 PM: Glass, glass, glass. I have probably found more sheds with my binos than I have up close.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: klickriverchromer on March 01, 2010, 07:13:20 PM: Quote from: WASHBCBOOK on March 01, 2010, 04:55:47 PM
..LOCATION,TREES,BRUSH,DESERT,GAME TRAILS,HILLS,AND SO ON
Looks like you already covered the good spots :twocents:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: Alan K on March 01, 2010, 07:31:19 PM: #1 WALK SLOWLY!!! It'd make me sick to know how many I've walked by because I was walking too fast to see them.

If you're in steep ground, first off elevation of the bucks when they drop. . . Over here anyways I swear the bucks stay higher than the does and fawns in the winter. . . Then, ridge tops or slightly over the edge of ridge tops.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 01, 2010, 07:38:24 PM: let the optics do the work, allot of time i spend more time looking glassing than walking for them.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: UBA on March 01, 2010, 07:54:12 PM: Like normal hunting situations scout before hand. find out where they are actually hanging out
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: NWBREW on March 01, 2010, 08:15:41 PM: If your walking flat land (as some areas I do when looking for whitetail sheds) Walk in a zig-zag pattern. Kinda like you would do bird hunting. Works for me........sometimes. ;)
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: PolarBear on March 01, 2010, 08:18:46 PM: Hunt benches or flats more than steep hill sides.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: WARHORSE on March 01, 2010, 09:08:55 PM: tip #1 walk #2 walk more #3 walk some more
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: HardCorpsHuntr on March 01, 2010, 09:16:45 PM: My #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING.

Once you find some sheds, shut your mouth and don't post pics. So to not motivate others to go or stumble into your favorite stomping grounds to get sheds you would ordinarily pick up.

;)
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: firecrotch on March 02, 2010, 12:45:42 AM: Quote from: HardCorpsHuntr on March 01, 2010, 09:16:45 PM
My #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING.

Once you find some sheds, shut you mouth and don't post pics. So to not motivate others to go or tumble into your favorite stomping grounds to get sheds you would ordinary pick up.

;)

:yeah:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on March 02, 2010, 07:19:06 AM: Go outside where deer winter. Haven't found a shed yet in the reflection of this monitor.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: rasbo on March 02, 2010, 08:59:47 AM: still seeing horns on them heads this morning...
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on March 02, 2010, 09:14:35 AM: ride a horse through the brushy feeding areas.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bearpaw on March 02, 2010, 09:15:49 AM: I was serious about the dog. You can teach the family lab to find horns just by practicing around your yard and going to the nearest timbered area with a few sheds that you already have. ;)
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: WAcoyotehunter on March 02, 2010, 09:38:19 AM: we started our border collie pup at a young age! she has managed to find every shed or skull around the farm and pile them into the front yard. The older dog will bring us a shed in the woods every so often. Hopefully this pup will turn out. I have been bad about getting her out! :(
The hound is too darn dumb to figure out what we're after...unless the shed can run, she doesn't want it. :P
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: boneaddict on March 02, 2010, 09:41:38 AM: Good boots and an understanding Family
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: wastickslinger on March 02, 2010, 12:44:02 PM: Just make sure you get a good price and that its well build, I prefer 2X6 contruction. Ziggies has pretty good deals. Stay away from Lowes and Home Depot, their sheds are crap. :twocents: You could just buy the lumber yourself and build one, save a few bucks.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bearpaw on March 02, 2010, 01:11:45 PM: Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on March 02, 2010, 09:38:19 AM
The hound is too darn dumb to figure out what we're after...unless the shed can run, she doesn't want it. :P

I think it's just the difference in their instincts. Generations of retrieving dead birds, makes a bird dog perfect for shed hunting. As soon as they figure out what you want them to look for you are in business.... my daughter threw horns and hid them for her lab, now she has a lab that drags them all in, just like your collie.

Most hounds were bred to trail scent, bay game, and bark up a tree.... they could care less about something as dead and lifeless as an antler. :twocents:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: gasman on March 02, 2010, 01:25:24 PM: both myu dogs have had a shed for a toy sence we got them. I have hidden the shed around the yard and they always find it.

I hope this helps when i head out to the field to shed hunt.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: PolarBear on March 02, 2010, 02:13:12 PM: I had a Rhodesian Ridgeback/Chocolate Lab mix that was just starting to get into the shed thing when we had to put him down. His favorite toy was an old chunk of wntler that I would hide in the brush and he would find.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: JAMMER55 on March 02, 2010, 08:45:41 PM: Walk slowly and go where nobody else will.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: heavy hauler on March 06, 2010, 05:58:16 PM: when the snow is deep , chase um through thick brush. i have seen it done using horses from a distance........
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: HHPro on March 06, 2010, 06:05:06 PM: Quote from: heavy hauler on March 06, 2010, 05:58:16 PM
when the snow is deep , chase um through thick brush. i have seen it done using horses from a distance........

:bdid: That would be bordering on harassing of wildlife and now is the worst time to put stress on them.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bearhunter99 on March 06, 2010, 06:25:46 PM: Quote from: HHPro on March 06, 2010, 06:05:06 PM
Quote from: heavy hauler on March 06, 2010, 05:58:16 PM
when the snow is deep , chase um through thick brush. i have seen it done using horses from a distance........

:bdid: That would be bordering on harassing of wildlife and now is the worst time to put stress on them.

I would say that is not even bordering, it is just plain harassment. I get tired of watching :mor: chasing the deer in the spring by using four wheelers or horses or on foot. Trying to spook the deer into losing their antlers when they go into that stiff legged trot. Frankly there isn't much that pisses me off more than seeing this when I am out in the field. This is the hardest time of the year for the deer, after they have spent all their reserves and are eating too much fresh green roughage. :bdid: :bdid: :bdid: :bdid:
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: HHPro on March 06, 2010, 06:30:35 PM: I agree bearhunter its bad enough people are down in the wintering ranges during this time of year but when the greed of wanting antlers makes them do such dumb things they need to be shot.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: heavy hauler on March 07, 2010, 06:31:07 PM: its called sarcasm fellas.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: saylean on March 07, 2010, 06:34:49 PM: There are lots of sheds that are not found, by lots of people. My advice is...first off, let the animals have their space during winter, then...

just go. You wont find the sheds in your house. Walk slow, walk game trails, have fun.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: heavy hauler on March 07, 2010, 06:42:55 PM: i have a few ideas: the elevation i search shouldnt of had 10 feet of snow when the animals were dropping antlers(obviously go down the hill) south facing slopes are always a good start or benches on north facing slopes that get alot of sun can be a bonus.any place that looks god awful thick or steep or involves a river crossing or 2 is also good. i find alot of old sheds which tells me no has been there in awhile.
Title: Re: OK WHAT IS YOUR #1 TIP FOR SHED HUNTING
Post by: bow-n-head on March 08, 2010, 06:59:51 PM: If you are married with children get them to like shed hunting too. More eyes = more sheds in your pile :chuckle: