deer sheds?

brian3 · 03-01-2003, 06:31 AM

i hunt in ohio in belmont and monroe county ,woundering when deer should shed there antlers here ,i was told maybe up to two weeks ago,and right before that we
got on an average of 28 inches of snow,the most ive ever seen,so if this is true when the snow melts this should be good hunting ,,never looked foe sheds before
should be fun ...so do you think they have shed them already,and where to look?
thankyou .............brian3

Lady Forge · 03-02-2003, 07:07 AM

Ive found dozens by looking along field edges, food sources, bedding areas, travel trails, water sources and fence lines etc. I prefer to start at a food souce and then follow travel trails back to bedding ares in my search. Just about anywhere a buck will travel is where I look for sheds.In Illinois they are already shedding.

buckmaster68 · 03-02-2003, 07:18 AM

Also look on the southern hillsides. The deer like to lay on the south sides because of the sun and to get out of the northwest wind. Good Luck!!

Wickman (Buckmaster) · 03-02-2003, 11:05 AM

I mainly look in the beds and feeding areas and follow some of the trails out to field edges or hill sides.

Lady Forge · 03-02-2003, 09:26 PM

The southern slopes that buckmaster68 spoke of are also ideal locations for deer because of the ease of feeding, due to the suns placement in the sky during the winter causes the southern facing slopes to recieve more sunlight during the warmer hours of the day, recieveing more sunlight at a higher melting rate of snow cover than the other slopes, thus providing the deer an area with a thiner layer of ground snow cover that requires less pawing through snow for ease in feeding and browseing.