shed hunting
01-17-2006, 01:28 PM
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Spike
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shed hunting
I realize that many of you here probably go out and do the typical search for that monsters sheds after the season closes for that glimmer of hope for next year. So i was wondering when you belive is the absolute best time to go shed hunting.
01-17-2006, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Massachusetts
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RE: shed hunting
Big boys often drop early.
My biggest, one side of a 160 class buck, I found in a scrape in late December.
Highest liklihood of finding a fresh one in Southern New England has been late January to early February. Most of the sheds I find right now this time of year I find by following tracks in the snow. Very often I find them not far after they get up from a bed. I like to get out there after each big snow we get. Maybe it's that they bed down, take a big nap and let the testosterone leave their system? I dunno.
My biggest, one side of a 160 class buck, I found in a scrape in late December.
Highest liklihood of finding a fresh one in Southern New England has been late January to early February. Most of the sheds I find right now this time of year I find by following tracks in the snow. Very often I find them not far after they get up from a bed. I like to get out there after each big snow we get. Maybe it's that they bed down, take a big nap and let the testosterone leave their system? I dunno.
