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Still pretty quiet here also. Boss's neighbor found 3 small ones when they werehauling grain out.I've yet to evensee a half rack buck. Tyler seen his first one last night on the way home from school.We saw a lot of bucks last weekend and this week.Tyler is chomping at the bit so I let himsnoop in onlya couple real goodfeedingareas so not to disturb anything. It will be a bit yet. We are in for some very cold weather the nextcouple weeks. That should loosen a few but it looks like mid Febuary before things startgetting good here.

dukemichaels, Troy, Dan and Bowhuntingfool

Any idea how many acres/ or milesyou cover in a year walking ?? How many sheds do you normally find?? Just curious. duke... spot on on the walking bit.

Just to give theoriginal poster an idea of how much walking we do... I get permission for at least 20,000 acres of private land in my area. Granted the deer herd up here and will winter inroughly1/4 of it. We will put on 10 -15 milesa day on weekends when we get serious... usually towards the end of Febuary. 3 - 4 milesafter work during the week startingby March when there is more day light. We try to make it out at least 2-3evenings during the week. Thereare two of us so times that by2.I usually put on180-200 miles a year. Tyler is well over that as he gets to usuallytromp4 daysmore when I have to work. Fair to say we put on about 400 miles a year between the two of us.

Last year was a great year and we found 246 sheds.We usually average 145 shedsbetween the two of us otherwise.Doing the math... we find 1 shed/2.75 miles of walking normally.Last year we found 1 shed/1.6 miles.

Our best day was 21 sheds. We usually average 5- 10 every outing.

Our terrain is ag land, CRP and catails/sloughs.

Tim