An ending to my Shed Hunting Season...
 

As it quickly becomes green here in northern Illinois.. I have officially ended my shed season in 08'. With 21 sheds.. 4 matched sets.. some well documented bucks.. some not.. 1 dead buck... over 140 hours on foot... some 120+ miles.. several thorn infections.. 2 ticks.. a rather excited skunk.. and my wife's first find..;) (sort of).











Hunted this buck throughout 2007.. found his match 100 yrds. from our only encounter. Justin recovered his 2006 left side this past weekend.

RE: An ending to my Shed Hunting Season...
 

wow, very succesful shed hunting season! how much land do you hunt?

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There's more.. I suck with this uploading stuff...[:@]

These are all the matched sets I found this shed season (minus a smaller set).

Top 2 found less than 3 ft. apart in bedding area.
Middle 2 found nearly 1 mile apart.. 1 on edge of hayfield.. other in corn field.
Bottom 2 found 150 yards apart.. older sheds.. 1 in bedding area.. one on edge of cornfield.

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These 2 antlers were found about 1 month apart.. nearly a mile in between. I embedded the left side antler into the pic. since I have it from last years shed season. Look at the jump from 2 to 3 yrs. old. Should be a good one this fall!

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This shed was found about a mile away from where Justin took this pic. of this buck in late summer near an apple tree. Shed was recovered in bedding area about 200 yrds. off a hayfield.

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Lastly.. one of my favorite sheds from this yr. found on one of Justins pieces of ground.

The genetic make-up of the herd Justin and I hunt to some degree is un-canny. They almost all have the same characteristics.. mostly 9 pointers.

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Not as much as you might think wahoo.. Justin and I just do our homework. In fact we rarely even hunt these areas.. we travel mostly to much further destinations.. but we have a pretty good area to shed hunt on.. kinda has a poor genetic make-up though.

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Very nice!

Do you have adifferent viewof the last one?

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For you Buckeye..

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Mike what do you usually do with most of these sheds?