I guess that's the secret Badshot. I suck at finding them too. This year I'm on a mission though. I talked to Kobear who seems very adept at finding them. He says to walk and walk and walk and walk etc....... Go slow and concentrate on bedding areas and thickets. Of course he's 17 years old.[:-]

Best advice I can give is to gain access to as much land as you can, also walk, walk and walk some more and spend time doing it. That is the key to finding sheds. Deer herd up and move around during the winter here. What was a great shed hunting area last year might be a poor one this year on account of it. The more land you have access to the better off your are.

We key in on the basics of searching "winter" feeding areas, trails, bedding areas and staging areas by bedding areas. Forget where the deer were last fall from hunting, you need to know where they are spending their time in the winter. That is important to us as the deer herd up and move to different food sources then what was available last fall as those areas get used up or are buried by deep snow here.

In areas with deep snow, we run ridge lines or hilltops. The deer are using the path/trail of least resistance when going inbetween bedding and feeding areas in our area since we have deep snow. Mild winters find us searching side hills and low ground. The deer seem to perfer browsing in these areas on the way to feeding areas then they do hill tops. Conditions play a good part on how we search an area. Pay attention to deer sign as that will show you how they use an area and what specific areas should produce a few sheds.

Carry binocs with you. Very handy for picking out sheds and saves on the walking in open areas or fields.

Tim

Had no luck so far ,but I'm still lookin .It's raining today when it stop's it should be about right to find them.

nubo

Went out again this weekend looking in some areas I haven't checked out yet that was near the spot I've found other sheds. I took a friend with and Lo and behold we found some more. I found a small three point and my buddy found a five point and a four point. It still amazes me at how much the deer hearded up in this one food source area during the cold and snow when they dropped their antlers. I'm sure to some of you guys that find dozens of sheds each year it's not a big deal, but for me who usually stumbles onto one or two a year by accident this is great. I've gotten six so far since feb., and the two my buddy found makes eight drops from this one area. Have only found one matching pair, the rest are all from different bucks.

BTW, the three we found on saturday were chewed all up already, kinda bummed us a little 'cause the two my buddy found were nice racks, but chewed on really good.

Man I can't wait to see the buck activity in there this fall, I'm positive they will disperse to different areas but a couple will stick around.......I'll be perched in my tree waiting!!

My haul:

Found 3 out here in PA

im out in pa and have been out several time and havent found any yet. . .but i diddnt see a whole3 lot of buck around my plave during fall . . .. or any since then

still none yet

i wish i had buck walking around my place like TJF does

Here in SE Kansas my deer cams have about 1/2 the bucks missing antlers as of March 1. I have pics of 1 deer wearing 1 side while the other side has dropped. Now it's March 11 they're probably mostly all dropped so I'll start looking.