When is the optimal time frame for finding monster sheds.

From the time they fall off of their head until they start to grow new ones.


All kidding aside, I normally don't start looking until February.

I've NEVER found a shed. I've been deer hunting for 17 years, and I've still yet to find a single shed.

ive never found a shed while looking and the only full shed i found, every tine had been chewed up

February-March is a good time to start. It is a lot of fun. I find most of mine when I least expect it.

I've found them as early as late January, how ever i don't look for them until Late March here in Minnesota after the snow is gone.

Ive found a couple big ones while scouting, but they were chewed a bit. Im going out this year for sure though.

Mid Feb. until it is too think and hot to walk around... about May. I find around 20 or so a year average. Last year I got 3 matched sets... biggest went about 150.... (all were on public)

I have a buch of pics hosted SILO

I have found them any where from January through April and on occasion during hunting season when one has survived the rodents. If i had to pick just one month to be the most productive, it would be March.

I agree. Spring is the best time, but my brother-in-law found this one on my Dad's place November 3 this year. We had a guy hunting with us last year that missed him during bow season, and we never saw it again. We were thinking somebody probably shot him, but it looks like he made it through the year. It is pretty amazing it wasn't chewed up anymore than it was.