BK,

I agree, can't get em started too early. My oldest boy is almost 3 and he went on his first shed hunt last spring before he turned 2. He loves it. I take him to feeding areas and southern slopes where the suns knocked the snow down and we just hike around. Of course he's on my back alot too. Here in Northern Idaho, I shed hunt the southern facing slopes of mountains a ton, known feeding and bedding areas (from past scouting and shed hunting) and good pounded trails. I have found most of my bigger sheds in the thick stuff where the bucks bed. For elk I hit the high glades and big ridges that connect feeding to beds. If the snows been heavy, I often find concentrated areas of sheds....if its been a mild winter the sheds seem to get scattered all over. Also... sheds get scattered pretty bad when folks cant wait long enough for em to drop and run the animals all over he!! and back .....

As for my little boy..I often take a shed along..and plant it for him to find... this really gets him excited... it can be a turn off when ya first start shed hunting and ya dont find anything....my best advice is to cover a lot of ground. but at a pace were ya see everything well, look for pieces of antler and not the whole thing..... a backpack for him is nice too if he need to be carried some..... and keep at it..sooner or later your gonna find a "bone".


Good luck

shed

P.S. BK, i use the microsoft photo editor to resize my pictures to fit the 290x 290 pixels