RE: shed hunting
Usually what we do here is find a main food source where they are herded up feeding and walk a few of the thousand trails going back towards a bedding area. Fields are usually picked clean here by people on sleds so we tend to keep walking the trails in the bush where people would have to get off the sled and heaven forbid walk. Alfalfa is usually pretty good but if you can find a chunk of land where the crop has been left out over winter you are laughing. Also look for fields with hay bales still in the field, the deer will pick at them all winter and try to bustem up often hookin their antlers on the twines.