2019 SOMD Shed Hunting

Baxter · Feb 12, 2019

Went out this past Saturday and found a few nice ones to kick off shed season.

K31 · Feb 12, 2019

It shed it's whole skull. I wonder how long that takes to grow back.

Baxter · Feb 12, 2019

I’d say a year to a year and a half tops ha

bigdv · Feb 12, 2019

Very nice sheds. Well done!

ClutchyMcClutcherson · Feb 12, 2019

Do you use a dog to shed hunt? I never knew that was a thing until we got our lab. Mine will probably only be a duck dog, unless you can do both. I haven’t looked that much into it.

outrider58 · Feb 12, 2019

ClutchyMcClutcherson said:
Do you use a dog to shed hunt? I never knew that was a thing until we got our lab. Mine will probably only be a duck dog, unless you can do both. I haven’t looked that much into it.

From what I've seen, they can.

outrider58 · Feb 12, 2019

K31 said:
It shed it's whole skull. I wonder how long that takes to grow back.

Baxter said:
I’d say a year to a year and a half tops ha

4 months for the antlers. Usually a full year for a skull to grow back.

RobSky · Feb 12, 2019

outrider58 said:
4 months for the antlers. Usually a full year for a skull to grow back.

Including the upper plate.

Baxter · Feb 12, 2019

No I don’t use a dog but yeah that is a thing. I enjoy the searching for them myself. I do it every year with my father, last year we got I believe 55/60. This year shooting for just 40 or so.

Inspector1489 · Feb 13, 2019

Once again, fooled by the thread title.

I thought this would be about trying to find the best deal on a 10'x12' over at Hertzler's or Stoltzfus' :innocent0

lx1x · Feb 13, 2019

Didn't her "she shed" burned?

LimaVictor · Feb 13, 2019

lx1x said:
Didn't her "she shed" burned?

Not the darn she shed! :lol:

billyclay · Feb 13, 2019

you did well

ClutchyMcClutcherson · Feb 13, 2019

Baxter said:
No I don’t use a dog but yeah that is a thing. I enjoy the searching for them myself. I do it every year with my father, last year we got I believe 55/60. This year shooting for just 40 or so.

What type of acreage are you walking to find that many threads. Maybe I just never really paid attention while walking through the woods. Lol

Baxter · Feb 13, 2019

There’s a few pieces of property that we walk, local parks and such. I think Saturday I covered about 6 miles.

The type of area that you walk is key, just wondering around the woods can lead to lots of walking with very little chance to find antlers. Try to find bedding areas, closely rooted pines also seem to be an area where I tend to find lots of antlers, the edge of fields as well.

Inigoes · Feb 14, 2019

lx1x said:
Didn't her "she shed" burned?

LimaVictor said:
Not the darn she shed!

But they covered it!

Sealion · Feb 14, 2019

Baxter said:
There’s a few pieces of property that we walk, local parks and such. I think Saturday I covered about 6 miles.

The type of area that you walk is key, just wondering around the woods can lead to lots of walking with very little chance to find antlers. Try to find bedding areas, closely rooted pines also seem to be an area where I tend to find lots of antlers, the edge of fields as well.

Thanks for the advice. I'm a city boy my whole life and I had no idea that this was a thing until this thread. I'm in the county now and we have a ton of deer in our woods. I'm going to take a wander.

Baxter · Feb 14, 2019

These are my finds from today

This is how I found the skull

Bboarder · Feb 15, 2019

Nice haul

billyclay · Feb 15, 2019

nice you can hardly see it

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