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Im from South West PA, and im curious if anyone has been finding any deer sheds. I just checked a trail camera of mine and as of febuary 20th I ve got several bucks still carrying head gear.

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I was out a bit during the thaw a few eeks ago and couldn't scare up a shed just yet. I put out a couple of trailcams but must've gotten a bad batch of batteries because I had nothing on em when i swapped batteries and cards late last week. they should start dropping soon. Get out there at the next thaw before thetree rats chew em up;)

Just curious, are the bucks in your pics that are still packing horns young and small racked or do you have some older bucks still holding on to em?

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I ve got a mix of both. Several are young bucks and there is one really nice eight that i ve been watching now for the past two years.Haven't been able to catch a glimpse of him though during hunting season. I am glad to see that he made it through another season.I do however have several pictures of some older bucks that have dropped one side.


By chance how in gods creation to you attach photos on these posts. I ve tried several different techniques and have been unsucessful. I ve tried using the umpload here link on the bottom left part of the window and tried using the add image button on the far right on the tool bar. Any insight?

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I was fortunate enough to find 3 sheds yesterday, 2 happened to be a matching set. I was out for 2 hours tending to my stands and looking along the way. Both deer were mature.

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Hawkeye are you getting a message that says the file is too large or are you getting posts with a red x on it where the pic should be? If it's comingup as too large, either change the actual size, (I find about 4x5" usually works OK) or change the resolution

I've also had better luck converting them to Jpeg files before trying to upload them.

If it says it uploded sucesfully and you getthe little red x you need to click on the box that says embed picture in post.

If that doesnt work, you need someone smarter than me to help you;)

Good luck!!
Bob

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thanks i think i figured it out

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Hawkeye a buddy and I found 22 sheds not to far from you in SE. OH last weekend but 3 of them were from previous years.
As far as posting pics, try www.imageshack.com, upload pic., enter your e-mail address then click on resize (640x480 website) and hit host. Pike

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It is hard to imagine how many buck they must have if you could find that many sheds. must be some great hunting compared to PA.

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Wow Jeff! You certainly had a great weekend!

I even see two matched sets! Thats like hitting two holes in one on the same day!!! Congrats!!

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Thanks BT.!! we found 4 matched sets though, lol
Bluebird, When I heard Dr Alt speak during his 1st year of seminars and found out that our DD. goal was only 5 deer per square mile here in York Co. I knew that I would have to find a place outside his jurisdiction if I wanted to continue enjoying the type of hunting I was use to in the future. Pike

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Congrats on the sheds. Im keeping my fingers crossed hoping this snow melts this weekend so I can hit the woods again and hopefully find a few. By chance J Pike where did you predominantly find those sheds. I mean like Thickets, corndields, or fence crossings?

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Hawkeye, found them all in the thickets (bedding area's) which we have 100's of acre's of very nasty clear cuts / over grown fields full of Multa Flora Rose,Green Briar and Autumn Olive, didnt find any at the fence/creek crossings that I happend to come across and we do not have any corn fields in the area, but we do have 25 acres of BFO.'s, WW, and Rye planted but didnt find any in or around them either even though the deer are hitting them pretty good.
Because my shed hunting in OH. is limited to 4-6 days a year I pretty much hit the very thick bedding area's in Feb.-March and leave the more open hard woods, travel routes etc. for April when im out turkey hunting/scouting etc.
How much snow do you have on the ground? Pike

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We had a good 3-5 inches over here but most of it melted off throughout the day. The weather is looking pretty good for this weekend so hopefully i'll find a few. I ve got a couple real nice bucks on camera the past several weeks that i'd love to get a hold of their sheds but we'll see what happens. Where are you located at in ohio?

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Goin north next wkd, hoping the weather is as nice as now...looking for one set of sheds in particular and would be nice to hear a few early gobbles!:)

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I read a field note in the PGNs where a farmer found two sheds the hard way . They wee stuck in his tractor tires and it cost $600 /tire to have them repaired.

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I've never went out and specifically looked for sheds but I've never come accross one either.

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How could that be possible with all those buck being saved by ARs in 2g. With the great hunting you have in 2G the forest floor should be littered with sheds just like in Ohio.;) I don't look either ,but I found a few while hunting or working in the woods. Even with ARs not enough buck survive to make it worthwhile looking for sheds.

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I don't any trouble finding them when they're still attached to their heads but I've yet to find a shed.

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Hunt harder, scout more , move to a new area and walk more than 50 yds. from the parking lot and you'll find all those sheds left by all the bucks saved by ARs.;)

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Even in the best areas, and I have access to some very good areas, PA is still a tough place to find sheds. I do look for them and find maybe 1 a year on average. 1.5 sheds tend to hide pretty good and most of our 2.5 antlers already went home with someone;)

I find more in the midwest in much less time as long as I get out there before the locals do.

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If you think hunting sheds in your area is tough, try it in an area where six hunters only saw 2 AR legal buck and one non-AR legal buck during the two weeks of the concurrent season and the late ML season.

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bb i may be tough to find one but i would be enjoyable for me and my youngest boy just to get out and walk
look at thing show him stuff

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Maybe you need to change areas. Try a suburban shed hunt. Some guys I know look for sheds near houses and find one in nearly every back yard!

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BLAH...BAH...BLAHHHHHH
Does this never end?
Stop yankin' the wheel from the passenger seat!

I found a shed on my last days of flinter hunting but it was a year old at least. Buried in the leaves, bleached and chewed.

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i agree 100%. Teach him to identify various trees based solely on their bark and crown structure. show him what species deer prefer and which ones they avoid until they are needed as a last resort. show him the difference in growth at the edge of a woodlot versus the growth under a mature canopy. point out the heavily used rails now may not be the same trails they use in the fall.
There is a lot to learned every time we set foot in the woods with an open mind.

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Now that is something I can surely agree with.

I tell people al the time that I could spend my entire life on one small tract of ground and every day see something new that I had never seen before that was just absolutely fascinating.

A wise old Indian told me when I was but a child that everything I would ever need to know about life or of deathI couldlearn by watching the works of nature. The older I get the more I see not only the wisdom, but the truth of those words.

R.S. Bodenhorn

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The last two posts remind me of a videoi put togeather about six years ago. Here is a clip from it, listen to the narration http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIXsZGSAKeM While out shed antler hunting, itis a great time to teach kids the great beauty in all of nature, not just the hunting part of it.

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Went back out to OH. this weekend and ended up finding 5 sheds on saturday including a massive shed with 2 sticker pt.'s on the G-2 but unfortuntately the rodents found it before I did and found 2 more on sunday morning before I had to head home. As you can see the rodents got to one of them before I did aswell. Pike

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NICE!!!

I'm headed out to the Illinois Golden triangle this weekend. Hope I do half as well as you've done in Ohio!:D

did you happen to put a tape to the H1 and H2 areas on that big one?

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By chance J Pike where did you happen to find most of your sheds? I went out this past weekend and walked around through a few corn fields and some bedding areas and was unsuccessful in finding any. I did check my trail camera and i do have pictures of bucks still sporting head gear. Im just curious where your target area is when shed hunting.


Dave

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BT I didnt put a tape to it, if it wasnt all chewed up I would have scored the entire antler but I just put it with the rest of them in the box we keep them in, in the house out there. Next time I go out I will put a tape to it and let you know.
Good Luck in IL!! And take pics! Pike

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Hawkeye because my shed hunting time is limited in OH. because I live 5 hours away ( 4 days so far this year) I try to search every inch of their bedding area's and also the trails leading into and out of them, but Im still no where close to covering them all. Come April I will cover the open hard woods etc. when I m scouting and hunting for turkeys. Pike.

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BT. you find any sheds this past weekend in IL.? Pike

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Not a one! We burned up plenty of shoe leather working our way primarily through bedding areasand also checking trails and fence and creek crossings but not one shed. These are areas that have produced some nice sheds in the past and the deer and sign were there. We also didnt see any bucks still packing horns so I don't think it's a matter of em dropping late either. We did see some signs of tresspassers though[:@]. I'm baffled for any explanation other thanwe simply got scooped by the tresspassers[:'(].