shed hunting
01-09-2011, 12:45 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: illinois
Posts: 48
shed hunting
howdy, i am looking for some advice on shed hunting. i promised my little girl some antlers this year, unfortunately i was not able to give them to her through normal means of hunting. so i am basically looking for any advice on looking for sheds.
01-09-2011, 03:00 PM
#2
Super Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Trumbull County, Ohio
Posts: 9,520
Walk fence lines, brush rows, known trails. Walk through their bedding areas. Drive along fields with a good pair of Bino's and scan the fields looking for antlers sticking up. I have good luck at one property where the deer jump across a small creek.. It's in a spot where it narrows down, and a lot of deer cross there. So I find antlers laying in that area just about every year. If you know a spot where deer dip under a fence, or anything for that matter, rather than jumping over it... that'd be a good spot to check too. I've found with sheds it just takes alot of time in the woods and miles on the boots. Eventually you'll come across some somewhere.
-Jake
-Jake
01-10-2011, 05:13 PM
#3
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1
when you're walking around, be sure to check behind you. Sometimes they can't be seen at one angle but can be seen at a different angle...so every 10-20 steps take a gaze on your backtrail.
I'm hoping to get my hands on some ivory this winter/spring as well.
Ben
I'm hoping to get my hands on some ivory this winter/spring as well.
Ben
01-11-2011, 03:57 AM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: S.W.PA
Posts: 178
Its still a little early best times to look are late feb until green up.Check south faceing areas that warm up 1st food sources bedding areas trails leading to and from those areas.Remember deer are going to expend as little energy as possible at this time of yr.
If you want to find your child a rack other good places to look are spots where deer get hit by cars.Over the years I've found alot of racks by looking in those areas.When a deer is hit by a car they usually dont go to far they will go until they think whatever it was that hurt them isent after them anymore then they will lay down and die.Hope this helps you
If you want to find your child a rack other good places to look are spots where deer get hit by cars.Over the years I've found alot of racks by looking in those areas.When a deer is hit by a car they usually dont go to far they will go until they think whatever it was that hurt them isent after them anymore then they will lay down and die.Hope this helps you
01-11-2011, 07:41 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cazenovia, NY USA
Posts: 2,973
Walk, Walk, walk, walk. grid.
Go to where they feed and bed - go now especially if there is snow - If you don't find them now - you'll have a much much better understanding of where to look in a month. in most areas the are dropping now until 3/1.
Go to where they feed and bed - go now especially if there is snow - If you don't find them now - you'll have a much much better understanding of where to look in a month. in most areas the are dropping now until 3/1.
