how to you hunt for sheds? just walk the deer trails and keep your eyes peeled? do they normally scrape them off on trees or bushed?

nice finds!

That is neat, nice finds for snow! I happened to find a matched set saturday from a decent 2.5 year old (about 120") while i was rabbit hunting....but I am not going shed hunting hard-core untill some of our 18" of snow melts off! I look for this year to be a great shed year for me, the deer are really yarded up locally.

The last few that I have found have been laying on trails, however, I have seen as recently as last week bucks at my dad's house butting heads. So I am sure that would translate into sparring knocking loose antlers off also.

As for looking for sheds:
go slow
take your time
walk the trails
take a pair of binoculars with (if you have some)
take frequent breaks and look around
investigate everything (I have found sheds frozen below the surface of puddles)
stop and look at where you just came from (it is possible to kick one up without seeing it)
dont forget to look at your feet besides looking in the distance

if you have access to a older shed, small, large, whatever, take it with you and throw it around, so you can see what you are looking for, helps train the eye, I will still take sheds that I have just found and toss them ahead of me.

It is actually pretty easy to find them, if they are there to be found......

If you know where the deer are, and it is easy to get to, check the area as often as you can, or as much as you feel comfortable with.

One area that I have been working over pretty hard, I noticed that the sign (tracks/beds) was getting less, so after staying out of the area for a couple weeks, came back and the sign is thick as ever and we found 3 sheds no more than 60 yards apart.

That is what I thought, but after this weekend, with the deep(er) snow, the deer do not wander as much, there are fewer trails in the woods thus it takes less time towalk them. Yes, depending on when the antler dropped, you may walk right over it and not see it but if it is on top they are harder to miss.......

bump for the 3-1 updates

excellent pics and nice sheds

Nice finds.

nice sheds!

Well, the wife was (actually still is) running a fever, so just didn't feel right leaving her alone with a 3 week old baby and a 2 year old, so my dad went out looking for some sheds today.

Right around 40 degrees today so the snow is starting to settle, he said both of the sheds he found just had the tips sticking out of the snow. So, maybe we will start finding some more that have been buried the last couple months.

A promising sign, he said he saw 7 bucks with horn still on their heads, 3 full racks and 4 half racks. Down side, he saw a large black dog running around with a deer leg in its mouth, might be why he saw that many deer, he said they were running all over the place.

In case anyone was wondering, this is not a normal year for us for finding sheds. Over the past 11 years, the best we have done is 17 sheds, and we are sitting at 22 and counting. Hunting this year it seemed like there were alot less squirrels running around, don't know if this has anything to do with it, but it is nice to find these things regardless.