...sunday found me in the same place as I started Saturday morning. After a few more miles of walking with no results i decided to give that place a rest for a few weeks. Lots of sign, not a lot of bone.

The dog was pretty much tapped out so I decide to just glass a few fields and call it a day. The first was full of mulie bucks that were all still packing both sides so I took note and headed for the next place. I parked the truck next to a shredded bale and took a look with the glasses. After a minute or so, I spotted what looked to be a curved mainbeam about 500yds out in the field. I figured it was most likely another of the 3 million piles of deer crap that i've glassed in the last few weeks but curiousity got the best of me and i strapped on the snowshoes. I made it all of 6 feet from the truck when I tripped on thi nice 4pt wt shed that was laying in a tractor track track next to the bale i'd parked at.So much for being proud of my eyesight[&:]

as it lay:




After photos I kept on after the suspicious "crap pile" in the field. After a few hundred yards i was clear that it was another nice 5pt whitetail shed.

as it lay:




The dog was near collapse so I took a roudabout path back to the truck. as I approached the trail I stopped for one more look around and spotted tines sticking up from a hay pile to my left.

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While I was focused on the one I could see the pooch was sniffing at something in the hay pile. As I got closer, i spotted this nice 5 pt wt shed.

as it lay:


It turns out that the sheds from the hay pile are the matches to the other two I found. Not bad for a twenty minute walk.