Shed question
04-13-2008, 08:37 PM
#1
Typical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Horse Country, VA
Posts: 937
Shed question
I have been scouting about 60% of my different hunt spots. I have found bedding areas, trails, funnels, scrapes, rubs, etc.....without a single shed.
Is there a cretain place where they seem to fall of, like in bedding areas, or do they fall off random?
I know of a few 8's in the area, and even saw a 10 last season, but cant seem to find any fall off's! [:@]
Is there a cretain place where they seem to fall of, like in bedding areas, or do they fall off random?
I know of a few 8's in the area, and even saw a 10 last season, but cant seem to find any fall off's! [:@]
04-14-2008, 08:15 AM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: East Central Illinois
Posts: 660
RE: Shed question
ORIGINAL: Hoyt_Viper
I have been scouting about 60% of my different hunt spots. I have found bedding areas, trails, funnels, scrapes, rubs, etc.....without a single shed.
Is there a cretain place where they seem to fall of, like in bedding areas, or do they fall off random?
I know of a few 8's in the area, and even saw a 10 last season, but cant seem to find any fall off's! [:@]
I have been scouting about 60% of my different hunt spots. I have found bedding areas, trails, funnels, scrapes, rubs, etc.....without a single shed.
Is there a cretain place where they seem to fall of, like in bedding areas, or do they fall off random?
I know of a few 8's in the area, and even saw a 10 last season, but cant seem to find any fall off's! [:@]
04-14-2008, 11:46 AM
#5
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 295
RE: Shed question
Sheds can drop anywhere, but if you want to maximize your chances of finding that needle in a haystack, concentrate on where the buck will spend the majority of its time, the bedding areas,
yes, fields, paths to the fields (and other feeding areas) are good, but they deer don't (at least around me) spend the majority of the their days in these spots.
If you really want to make sure you are missing anything, you should really grid up an area and walk it out, and the walking should be a nice liesurely slow pace, with lots of stopping and looking back the way you came.
yes, fields, paths to the fields (and other feeding areas) are good, but they deer don't (at least around me) spend the majority of the their days in these spots.
If you really want to make sure you are missing anything, you should really grid up an area and walk it out, and the walking should be a nice liesurely slow pace, with lots of stopping and looking back the way you came.
04-14-2008, 01:33 PM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Shed question
In the winter he has one concern and thats feed. He wont move much either if he doesnt have too. In the spring, if he's still packing its still feed but he's made the winter and more likely to cover a little more ground ... still shed hunting is all about were the deer was feeding or moving to feed when he dropped.. What ever the predominate food source is at that time, thats where the bones will be. I found 7 this weekend all had been burried under Febuary's snow until now.. And all were congregated due to deep snow pushing the deer down into the thickest brush/browse patches on the mountain.
04-14-2008, 02:44 PM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Northwest suburbs, Illinois
Posts: 2,075
RE: Shed question
In the winter he has one concern and thats feed. He wont move much either if he doesnt have too. In the spring, if he's still packing its still feed but he's made the winter and more likely to cover a little more ground ... still shed hunting is all about were the deer was feeding or moving to feed when he dropped.. What ever the predominate food source is at that time, thats where the bones will be.
Troy's the man homes... Find the food. The sheds will follow.
04-14-2008, 02:49 PM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Indiana (southern)
Posts: 6,146
RE: Shed question
exactly..also for some reason i have luck in CRP fields, not that they are bedding in them but i have had real good luck finding sheds in them.
ORIGINAL: dukemichaels
Boom. Zing. POW!
Troy's the man homes... Find the food. The sheds will follow.
In the winter he has one concern and thats feed. He wont move much either if he doesnt have too. In the spring, if he's still packing its still feed but he's made the winter and more likely to cover a little more ground ... still shed hunting is all about were the deer was feeding or moving to feed when he dropped.. What ever the predominate food source is at that time, thats where the bones will be.
Troy's the man homes... Find the food. The sheds will follow.
