After Work Sheds..

[deershed]

I got off work at 8am today and on the way home decided to stop and check out an area I drive past everyday.It's also an area I hunt and we saw a monster 8pt. in there and knew he made it though the season.I was hoping I'd find one of his sheds.
It's a patch of woods bordered by a working orchard that the deer hit hard after dark.I walked down the orchard a few rows in from the edge of the woods about 150 yds.when I hit a deer trail packed down in the snow.I followed the trail into the woods about 20yds. when I spotted a nice shed laying on top of the snow.As I was walking over to it I noticed a second shed laying only feet from the first one.Both sheds were right sides off different deer.I then made a few passes though the orchard and around the edge of the orchard.
I was headed back to the truck and headed across the orchard when I spotted another shed.This was a left side,but no mate to the other two.All 3 sheds were found within a 100 yds. of where my boy killed his Pa.4pt. last hunting season.
Not bad for a spur of the moment shedhunt.

 

[coyotebandit]

Great finds, let see some pictures!

I need to start looking once all this snow melts!

 

[Shag]

Man, you're killing me. And speaking of killing, doesn't anyone hunt those areas you're shed hunting down there? I can't believe the numbers of bucks that are in your shed hunting areas. What's up with that? Up here abouts, I'd say they kill 90% of the bucks and the after hunt bucks are pretty scarce. I know you blister em pretty good but it's just so hard to believe the shedding you have.

 

[Bill M]

Deershed, what do you do with all the sheds you find. It sounds like you have found a pile of them.

 

[deershed]

Shag-My regular areas where I do the majority of shedding is around the suburbs where hunting is limited or no hunting at all.The area where I found the sheds today is the idea location for the shed hunter and a nightmare for the hunter.For the most part the deer are nocturnal avoiding the area during daylight and a magnet for late season feeding after the hunting seasons have all closed.
Pa. has a 3 to a side rule in this area to be AR legal with the exception of junior hunters which made the 4pt.legal for the boy.We never saw a legal buck there during the 2 week rifle season.All 3 sheds would have came off AR legal bucks for all hunters.
Our other hunting areas get pounded hard like yours too.
BTW-after I got home this morning and hung around the house awhile,I went back out to another area just down the road.This spot is a state park that is mainly woods and all mountains.I started walking the trails in the snow and ended up finding a small 3pt. side.I'm really starting to like this shed hunting in the snow.

Bill M-I haven't figured out what to do with them,I just have a fasination with antlers.When I get my own place one day I'll have a trophy room where my sheds will sit next to my trophys I've taken over the years while hunting.To me my sheds rank right up there with my harvested deer.

 

[Tsmola]

your killing me deershed, I can't find a shed to save my soul!

good job let's see some pics!

 

[deershed]

Here's a couple from yesterday.
http://img18.photobucket.com/albums/v55/de..._Sheds_2004.jpg
http://img18.photobucket.com/albums/v55/de...20Sheds/4pt.jpg
http://img18.photobucket.com/albums/v55/de...20Sheds/5pt.jpg
That last picture was of the 5pt. set I found on saturday.

 

[Shag]

hey Steve, you really got that picture stuff down....you da man. Thanks.....I love seeing those pictures of them on the ground while I'm waiting for a chance for some of the 205"+ of snow to melt down.