Shed Hunting

[Brute 23]

Found 2 more today driving around. Fences thread made me paranoid in the pasture today. We have a place where they are still dropping horns so I was watching.

 

[greybeard]

I ruined a 4 wheeler tire on one of those a couple of years ago, and another one on a full skull a year of 2 before.

 

[Dave]

A couple days ago I saw a little bunch of 11 deer. 5 of them were starting to grow new horns. Last year's horns are somewhere up there in the sage brush.

 

[Brute 23]

A couple days ago I saw a little bunch of 11 deer. 5 of them were starting to grow new horns. Last year's horns are somewhere up there in the sage brush.

If you go on the FB shed groups they are full of people finding mule deer, elk, and moose sheds. A lot of times they are in pairs. Rodents and cattle and stuff tend to drag whitetail sheds off pretty easy. I guess those big horns stay longer because its hard to pack off a moose horn.

I was actually looking of places you could go that time of year where I could walk and look for sheds.

I have a couple life goals. I want to hunt every animals in Texas and get a mount. Now I have added I want to find a nice shed, or pair would be better, for whitetail, mule deer, elk, and moose, in my lifetime.

 

[callmefence]

If you go on the FB shed groups they are full of people finding mule deer, elk, and moose sheds. A lot of times they are in pairs. Rodents and cattle and stuff tend to drag whitetail sheds off pretty easy. I guess those big horns stay longer because its hard to pack off a moose horn.

I was actually looking of places you could go that time of year where I could walk and look for sheds.

I have a couple life goals. I want to hunt every animals in Texas and get a mount. Now I have added I want to find a nice shed, or pair would be better, for whitetail, mule deer, elk, and moose, in my lifetime.

I'm sure you've seen a shed trap.
Works as well to sprinkle corn right in a fence line. They'll both knock horns off eating corn along the fence and jar them off jumping the fence. I hope this helps you with those life goals.

 

[Brute 23]

I'm sure you've seen a shed trap.
Works as well to sprinkle corn right in a fence line. They'll both knock horns off eating corn along the fence and jar them off jumping the fence. I hope this helps you with those life goals.

Thanks.

I find quite a few looking, some on equipment even though I'm not in the pasture with tractors and what not near as much. By far I find the most while burning or post burn. Take the cover away and fresh green growth and it makes for the perfect scenario.

 

[Dave]

Back a month or two ago there was a lot people searching for sheds on the BLM ground near here. Some of them have dogs trained to find the sheds.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Everything here already has new growth.
If there is anything good about a squirrel other than biscuits and gravy is they eat the sheds pretty fast.

 

[Brute 23]

There is a big difference in the time deer rut and drop horns from the furthest north property I hunt to the furthest south. North can rut in Oct. Down south its December.

 

[tex452]

Found both sets a couple years ago on my ranch in Leon county.
Nice buck for the area, picture doesn't do justice.
Picked up a euro mount at academy.

 

[sim.-ang.king]

Wish I could spot them better before I ran over them. Right in a new tire last spring spreading clover.

 

[Dave]

A couple years ago there was a buck west of the corral my youngest son wanted to shoot. The west end of that corral is an old 40x 14 loafing shed. Son worked his way out through the corral to the loafing shed. Slipped his gun through a crack in the shed wall and shot the deer. Is that shed hunting?

 

[Named'em Tamed'em]

A couple years ago there was a buck west of the corral my youngest son wanted to shoot. The west end of that corral is an old 40x 14 loafing shed. Son worked his way out through the corral to the loafing shed. Slipped his gun through a crack in the shed wall and shot the deer. Is that shed hunting?

Yep!