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Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: stew pidasso on December 29, 2011, 09:12:34 AM

Title: Inspired
Post by: stew pidasso on December 29, 2011, 09:12:34 AM: Well, you guys inspired me to start looking for sheds lately. The problem is that I am the worst shed hunter on the face of this earth. I have never found a horn in my whole life. Most of my life has been spent putting miles on my boots in the mountains so whats the deal. Nevertheless, I will remain diligent on my quest to find a shed. I think it might be my new obsession. Any bets on how long it will take. Josh
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 09:26:25 AM: Good luck Stew. If you have never found a shed, then you may have the title of "worst shed hunter" (for now). I formerly held that title. I find one now and then, but I am a terrible shed hunter... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: NWBREW on December 29, 2011, 11:28:11 AM: Quote from: stew pidasso on December 29, 2011, 09:12:34 AM
Any bets on how long it will take. Josh

6 years. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Stickerbush on December 29, 2011, 11:41:10 AM: I was never looking for sheds when I found them. So maybe the trick is to just go "birdwatching" or something and every once and awhile sit down and look around at the ground maybe you will se one :dunno:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: PlateauNDN on December 29, 2011, 11:45:36 AM: in the last 2 years i've found one and that was by accident. I just happened to stop and spot what I thought was movement (turned out nothing) and I looked down for some reason and right there not a couple of inches from my boot was a little 2 point (3 counting the 1.5 in. eye guard) muley shed. :yike: My first shed :IBCOOL: that was last year, nothing this year but, i'm gonna hit it pretty good this coming spring and hopefully add to my one little pile. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on December 29, 2011, 11:49:34 AM: I have never found one as well, I just walk on them so my kids will pick them up behind me. That happen a couple years ago hunting with my daughter, she picked it up and said dad see what you walked on!
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 12:08:06 PM: Montana was the only place I ever did anygood shed hunting, and we weren't really shed hunting. We were deer hunting and we kept tripping over them. My buddy found something like 8 or 10. I still only found 2. For me, that's pretty awesome :chuckle:
For the record, my disability is apparently not heredetary. PathfinderJR has found several sheds (deer and elk), including a 6 point elk shed that I literally almost tripped over (he was 7 years old at the time). To get even with him, I made him pack the thing all the way back to camp..:tup:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: 400out on December 29, 2011, 12:16:03 PM: Quote from: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 12:08:06 PM
Montana was the only place I ever did anygood shed hunting, and we weren't really shed hunting. We were deer hunting and we kept tripping over them. My buddy found something like 8 or 10. I still only found 2. For me, that's pretty awesome :chuckle:
For the record, my disability is apparently not heredetary. PathfinderJR has found several sheds (deer and elk), including a 6 point elk shed that I literally almost tripped over (he was 7 years old at the time). To get even with him, I made him pack the thing all the way back to camp..:tup:
:chuckle: did you take the shortest route :dunno:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Kowsrule30 on December 29, 2011, 12:52:33 PM: Haven't really been shed hunting in a long time..... And I didn't find many..... Found more out hunting just by chance..... Dad hasn't ever found one..... I can see why when he steps over a big 5 point elk shed and I just pick it up.... :IBCOOL: Another time while out grouse hunting in late December he points out an elk bed... We check it out and he walks off and I grab the matching pair of spikes that he was almost standing on..... :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 12:53:49 PM: Quote from: 400out on December 29, 2011, 12:16:03 PM
Quote from: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 12:08:06 PM
Montana was the only place I ever did anygood shed hunting, and we weren't really shed hunting. We were deer hunting and we kept tripping over them. My buddy found something like 8 or 10. I still only found 2. For me, that's pretty awesome :chuckle:
For the record, my disability is apparently not heredetary. PathfinderJR has found several sheds (deer and elk), including a 6 point elk shed that I literally almost tripped over (he was 7 years old at the time). To get even with him, I made him pack the thing all the way back to camp..:tup:
:chuckle: did you take the shortest route :dunno:

Yeah, I did. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: JJB11B on December 29, 2011, 12:56:51 PM: Hey Pathfinder101, have you heard from Greg if shed camp is on this year? I think I might actually get the time off!
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: jrebel on December 29, 2011, 01:03:35 PM: Don't let this year count toward your bad luck.....unless of course we get snow. Bucks are still up very high compared to theier normal winter range. This is a good thing for the herds but horible for shed hunters. Good luck though and don't stop looknig. I also find very few....my hiking / hunting partner can be walking with me and he will see them as I walk right by them :dunno: . Maybe this is why he never kills anything, because he is looking at the ground all the time.
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Woodchuck on December 29, 2011, 01:09:35 PM: Heck just follow them around til they fall off :dunno:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: 400out on December 29, 2011, 01:28:18 PM: cheater >:(
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Woodchuck on December 29, 2011, 01:37:02 PM: There is a bit of a story with that, was not a typical "shed" :chuckle:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: JJB11B on December 29, 2011, 01:38:59 PM: post it up! we like stories
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: runamuk on December 29, 2011, 01:41:45 PM: Quote from: 400out on December 29, 2011, 01:28:18 PM
cheater >:(

careful there we dont need you blowing your top :chuckle:

does it make you feel better that in 42 years I have found one dinky ass spike deer shed.... my son walking on the beach found deer teeth :yike: I did happen upon an entire beaver skeleton completely bleached and only missing a few foot bones...I was with another gal and she took most of it...including the skull.....otherwise mostly i find gross carcasses and bird feathers :dunno:
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Woodchuck on December 29, 2011, 01:45:24 PM: Quote from: JJB11B on December 29, 2011, 01:38:59 PM
post it up! we like stories
Looks like the story went away with the meltdown.
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: dmartin on December 29, 2011, 03:33:47 PM: Just started hitting it hard last year... found 13 deer and one moose paddle my first year. i put serious miles in and felt like i wasnt getting much of a pay out. rough ratio was every 5-6 times out for one horn. others were posting totals of finding 15 in a weekend. it'll will happen for you too, just gotta put the miles in
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: Pathfinder101 on December 29, 2011, 05:42:04 PM: Quote from: JJB11B on December 29, 2011, 12:56:51 PM
Hey Pathfinder101, have you heard from Greg if shed camp is on this year? I think I might actually get the time off!
He'll have it, only question is when. I was over there the other night visiting and we tlked about it, but didn't set a date. The weather is so iffy that time of year... :dunno: A few years ago they actually got flooded off the mountain.. :(
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: jess on December 30, 2011, 08:52:26 PM: Remeber it only takes one good shed hunting trip to go from the "worst shed hunter" to the best... Once you get the "EYE" you will find more and more...
Title: Re: Inspired
Post by: huntnnw on December 31, 2011, 05:04:12 PM: I have never been a great shed hunter..the biggest change when in the hills is to keep my eyes to the ground...so use to that hunting mode..I barely look at the ground always looking for game and still find myself doing that when shed hunting. Also go to areas where game winter...I shed hunt places I dont even hunt