Good luck Rocky, looking forward to seeing some pics.

One of the family pets died yesterday. The deer were in the yard eating and dad said they all of a sudden all lifted up their heads so he knew they could hear something coming. They took off out of the driveway and one of them didn't quite make it and got t-boned by the grader opening up the road. I love killin them in season but i am a bit of a softy for the ones i feed in my yard. I don't know if it was a buck or not, he was going to haul it out today for the yotes. Sad but what do ya do. Very Very little traffic on my road as there is only one other farm on that road but i guess the chance does still exist.

Hia, that grader must've been moving at a pretty good clip to take out a deer!?

had another great weekend of shedding. saturday morning was relatively uneventful with the only find being this medium 4pt wt.

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For the afternoon, I headed back up to the area where I picked up that droptine set last week. Right off the bat, I found this nice 5pt WT at the same grain pile as the one last week.

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Most of the afternoon was spent looking for the match with no luck. With little light left, I headed for one last balestack before the truck and found these. They are the first matched set that I'e ever found together. They usually make me work harder for it.

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to be continued...

...sunday found me in the same place as I started Saturday morning. After a few more miles of walking with no results i decided to give that place a rest for a few weeks. Lots of sign, not a lot of bone.

The dog was pretty much tapped out so I decide to just glass a few fields and call it a day. The first was full of mulie bucks that were all still packing both sides so I took note and headed for the next place. I parked the truck next to a shredded bale and took a look with the glasses. After a minute or so, I spotted what looked to be a curved mainbeam about 500yds out in the field. I figured it was most likely another of the 3 million piles of deer crap that i've glassed in the last few weeks but curiousity got the best of me and i strapped on the snowshoes. I made it all of 6 feet from the truck when I tripped on thi nice 4pt wt shed that was laying in a tractor track track next to the bale i'd parked at.So much for being proud of my eyesight[&:]

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After photos I kept on after the suspicious "crap pile" in the field. After a few hundred yards i was clear that it was another nice 5pt whitetail shed.

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The dog was near collapse so I took a roudabout path back to the truck. as I approached the trail I stopped for one more look around and spotted tines sticking up from a hay pile to my left.

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While I was focused on the one I could see the pooch was sniffing at something in the hay pile. As I got closer, i spotted this nice 5 pt wt shed.

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It turns out that the sheds from the hay pile are the matches to the other two I found. Not bad for a twenty minute walk.

Awsome pics and finds Sask! I am looking forward to heading back up to camp this spring and finding a bunch of bone myself!
As we say "Bone Me!"

Sask, those are some great pics and nice sheds as well. I can't get over the size of those "pellets".Are they big like that because the deer are gorging themselves? Deer crap is much smaller here in Pa.[&o]

Thanks guys,

most of those big pellets are actually moose turds. They will feed at the bales as well as the deer. I don't know about the other guys here but i've often found bales that only have moose crap at them even though there are plenty of deer in the area. I think they can be pretty ornery and will chase deer away from "their food" or at least the deer will avoid a bale stack that has a pile of moose around it

Thanks Sask, I just learned something, like I often do on this forum.I do have a facination with Alberta and the giant bucks that call it home.

Funny story about ornery moose from when we were flying that survey a few weeks ago. After spotting a moose you have to circle down on it with the helicopter in order to chase it out of it's bed and determine it's sex(the only surefire way to tell if it's a cow is to look for the white patch of hair on her "ladybits"). Anyway, most moose will get up and run but there was one that just stood up, pinned her ears back and looked at the chopper as if to say " I don't know what the h*ll you are but if you come any closer i'll kick the living sh*t out of you." Needless to say she won the standoff and we called her "unclassified"

Way to go Sask, nice finds and pics. Thanks for sharing.

Yeah moose and elkcan keep deer at bay on such a hot find.