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i was just curious about when any of you actually go out and start looking for sheds. i normally go out around the end of January or middle of february. and hit it pretty much every weekend i can get out until about May.
what about you?

speed

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I start end of January and call for yotes and shed hunt and scout all at the same time. I do this until 3D season/turkey season opens.

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I didnt know you had that much brain capacity that you could multi task like that Matt... Wow, I am impressed.[8D]

Ps. Do you want an ice pack for that burn?

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I usually do a little bit in February and March. The big push for my brother, friends and myself is in April. During our 5 days of shed hunting we normally find around 300.

Last spring my wife, brother, friend and myself were out for 1 hr 45 minutes and found 54.

On a typical day in the spring we walk 10-12 miles.

Here are a few from that short trip.....

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WOW Dan, thats pretty cool!!!!!

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those are some pretty nice sheds if u found them last year those deer are gonna b pretty nice this year..

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Keep the ice pack, your gonna need it when 3D season rolls around......

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Thanks. Thats a picture of my wife and a friend of ours. Most of the sheds we find have been out there awhile. I would say about 50% of them are dropped within 2 years of us finding them.

Here's a pic of 3 fresh ones laying within 6 feet of each other. Hopefully you can see the 2 next to each other in the background.

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I start looking around late Feb. until turkey season in April, but in a sence i look all year long. Im allways keeping an eye out for them even when im hunting, and occasionaly i find one left from last season that survived the rodents. But it seems that May and April are the hottest times.

Dan thats an amazing outing for one time out. Im jelous, that would take me 4 seasons to find that many and i log alot of miles.

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nice pics Dan..... thanks for sharing them. that must be up in the Canada region huh? i haven't seen any land like that out here in Wisc., at least where i've been to.
two years earlier huh.. that would be nice, i've notice by me that if i don't find them with in the first 4-6 months there gone. rodents have a field day on them around by my area.

Speed

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Yep, its in Canada. I find that most here in WI get chewed on pretty quick as well. Up there, there isn't as many rodents to chew on them. I have found sheds where moss had grown 5" deep around them and only a couple tines sticking out.

I will admit, I am pretty fortunate to have the area I do for shed hunting.

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Pretty impressive stuff Dan. Looks like you have some fantastic hunting grounds there. Good luck this shed season - there's a booner out there laying somewhere with your name on it.

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In 2005 we found 3 sheds in northern WI during november scouting. One was badly chewed, one moderately, one was in pretty good shape. All were from different deer, small to medium in size.

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Here in Texas, about end of Feb. to early March.

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I know these pics are terrible, but here is a pic of a pair of sheds we found on the property I hunt in NY. We found the one shed 2x weeks ago and it was in nearly perfect shape. The other was found in May or so.The sheds are his 05' headgear and the rack shown is his 06 headgear.

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Very cool Rick! That is always neat to shoot a deer and then go through the sheds at home and match them up. I shot a 153" 9pt this fall and my buddy had found his sheds 3 weeks before. I would post them, butI don't have any pics on the computer.

Here is a picture of the biggest shed I have found. It officially scored at 106 3/8" It has a couple mass measurements over 7" and a 28 1/8" main beam.

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Nice find! I hit a spot with three different ones 1 time in my life! They were quite a bit smaller than those, too! They were 1 1/2 8 pt. sheds.:D

I enjoy shed hunting. I learn a lot doing that and mostly go by myself. Other people that I ask to go with me are too busy or just not interested. Oh well, their loss.[:-]