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By:
Zbone
Date:17-Feb-19
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Thought there was already a shed thread but couldn't locate it so thought I start a new one being that time of year...
This one was found on a job site by a coworker friend Friday the 15th as we were lacing fiber optic cable out in a open field next to a shopping mall readying to hand pull the cable... I was probably within 40 or 50 yards of it and in the short grass/weeds but didn't notice or see it but I wasn't looking or expecting to see a shed in the middle of a city in a busy commercial area... After, I looked around and there ain't much places for this buck to live or hid, there is very little cover... Will be a dandy this year, kinda would like to see him with his rack and wonder if the other side matches...
By:
MQQSE
Date:17-Feb-19
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By:
BullBuster
Date:17-Feb-19
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As of 3 weeks ago
By:
BullBuster
Date:17-Feb-19
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As of 3 weeks ago
By:
Catscratch
Date:17-Feb-19
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Nice. All that I've had on trailcam are still holding.
By:
Shedfreak
Date:17-Feb-19
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By:
MQQSE
Date:17-Feb-19
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Checked 6 cameras today. Lots of antlers still riding around he farm on their heads.
By:
CJE
Date:17-Feb-19
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By:
Lee
Date:17-Feb-19
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My boy and I hit it this weekend - the squirrels did a number on this set!
Hell of an 8 CJE!
Lee
By:
Inshart
Date:17-Feb-19
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Still snow up over the bellies of the deer strolling around here in MN. Gonna be a few weeks .... even with the best weather conditions.
By:
Brotsky
Date:18-Feb-19
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I'd love to get my pup out to look but no way am I putting any pressure on our herd right now. Snow is balls deep on the bucks and you all know about the cold. Might have to look in late March but not even considering it until then. Hopefully a lot of folks follow suit in areas where winter is getting long.
By:
ROUGHCOUNTRY
Date:18-Feb-19
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I was finding them in late January but we just keep getting snow and cold in Montana...….they're buried right now but it was starting off great.
By:
SD BuckBuster
Date:18-Feb-19
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Awesome! Keep the pics comin!
And yes, there should be a shed hunting thread for darn sure!
By:
tobywon
Date:18-Feb-19
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Man, I've never found a matching pair together like some of you do. Seems one falls off and the deer keeps walking with half rack for a day. Even in beds, usually just one if I'm lucky. Some great finds so far.
By:
t-roy
Date:18-Feb-19
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First one. Looking forward to seeing what he looks like....
In about 4 years:-(
By:
CJE
Date:18-Feb-19
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Found this guy this morning along with another small one.
By:
fastfoodplots
Date:18-Feb-19
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By:
Zbone
Date:18-Feb-19
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Went back this afternoon on my own time trying to locate the other side of the shed posted up top, no luck... Checked out the area a little and amazes me a buck that big can live in a metropolis around that many people with so little cover...
By:
MQQSE
Date:19-Feb-19
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By:
MQQSE
Date:19-Feb-19
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By:
MQQSE
Date:19-Feb-19
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By:
Chemop
Date:19-Feb-19
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By:
EmbryOklahoma
Date:19-Feb-19
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Nice finds MQQSE!
By:
SB
Date:19-Feb-19
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The only pair I found BEFORE all this snow were still attached to the deer! A shotgun season victim by the looks of the holes. And it wasn't a legal deer here either with our antler point restrictions!
By:
SaddleReaper
Date:20-Feb-19
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Last weekend. Up to 7 so far in NY
Date:20-Feb-19
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Nice find Adam, same with the rest of u guys.
By:
MQQSE
Date:20-Feb-19
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Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every now and then Alexis!
Good luck this year with those beautiful bears up there in Manitoba!
By:
SD BuckBuster
Date:21-Feb-19
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Bumping this thread up to the top....
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:21-Feb-19
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Zip zero nadda so far, but only been out once at night. Nice NY finds...
By:
The Kid
Date:21-Feb-19
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Decent set. Most are still holding in our area.
By:
SD BuckBuster
Date:25-Feb-19
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WOW that is a great looking set!! Any pictures with a beer can next to them for reference?
By:
Bou'bound
Date:25-Feb-19
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Sweet find.
By:
The Kid
Date:26-Feb-19
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Sorry SD I don't have a beer can pic to relate to mass. I am not a P&Y scorer by any means, but the right side scored 69 7/8ths and the left was right at 68. I am really excited to see what he will look like next year!
By:
SD BuckBuster
Date:26-Feb-19
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WOW he's going to be a STUD next year! Congrats on the great find.
By:
Bowfinatic
Date:26-Feb-19
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From idaho
By:
Boone
Date:26-Feb-19
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I am up to 23 as of last night. 4 sets
By:
Boone
Date:26-Feb-19
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By:
Boone
Date:26-Feb-19
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By:
EmbryOklahoma
Date:26-Feb-19
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Nice finds, Chris!
Boone at it as usual! You are now known as the "shed man". :)
By:
APauls
Date:26-Feb-19
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Tough finding em in this stuff. I spent a few hours dragging a few hundred pounds of sunflower screenings back into the bush to try and help out the 5-10 does I’ve been feeding through the winter. Temp this morning was -30 without wind and snow is knee to above knee deep out there in the bush.
By:
The Kid
Date:26-Feb-19
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Nice finds Boone!
Thanks Rick! Missed seeing you and Lana at the Convention.
Date:26-Feb-19
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This is the only one I have seen.
By:
Jasper
Date:27-Feb-19
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Found my first “hanger” yesterday
By:
MQQSE
Date:27-Feb-19
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Found one from last year about an hour ago.
By:
t-roy
Date:16-Mar-19
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Found a nice matching set today.
By:
t-roy
Date:16-Mar-19
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As I found them.
Date:16-Mar-19
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Thanks Adam, too much snow here to look for horns good find everyone.
By:
Hawkeye
Date:16-Mar-19
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Awesome Troy!
By:
SBH
Date:16-Mar-19
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Too much snow in MT still but we are finally getting some melt off. Elk should be going good in a couple weeks. Seen a few shed bulls but I aint going up after them yet.
By:
MQQSE
Date:16-Mar-19
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By:
Shug
Date:17-Mar-19
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Found 9 so far this year.... The last two...
By:
Shug
Date:17-Mar-19
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Another walk turned up this pile
By:
Jeff Holchin
Date:17-Mar-19
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Takes a good eye to find spike sheds, Shug!
By:
Shug
Date:17-Mar-19
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Yes Jeff... but I always wonder how many 60” antlers I missed
By:
Whocares
Date:17-Mar-19
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Top this. My daughter and I spent 3hrs in a secret spot a year ago and this was it! And it was on the way back to my truck.
By:
Whocares
Date:17-Mar-19
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And one I found last year. Amazing when u think about it.
By:
t-roy
Date:17-Mar-19
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How’s this Whocares. I found this one out in SW Nebraska while I was trying to belly crawl up on an antelope several years ago. I found it about 5 minutes after I just about put my hand on a tiny (6” long) prairie rattler on the same sneak. He only had one button on his rattle.
Charlie will probably be along soon and submit pics of the matching buttons he found and outdo all of us ;-)
By:
Whocares
Date:17-Mar-19
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t-roy, if i'd have put my hand on a baby rattler the stalk would've been over. The momma had to be around somewhere!
By:
Shug
Date:17-Mar-19
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Who cares and T Roy... 10 years ago in west Texas looping around in rocky terrain on some Javalina glance down to watch my footing and something catches my eye. I pick it up and it’s a small piece of busted tine.
It must have been there for a wile as it was chalky and cracked...
By:
Shug
Date:17-Mar-19
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Who cares and T Roy... 10 years ago in west Texas looping around in rocky terrain on some Javalina glance down to watch my footing and something catches my eye. I pick it up and it’s a small piece of busted tine.
It must have been there for a wile as it was chalky and cracked...
By:
t-roy
Date:17-Mar-19
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Shug....I think that tiny shed that I found had been there for several years as well. It was in similar condition as your tine.
By:
sagittarius
Date:18-Mar-19
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Happy St. Patricks Day!
By:
sagittarius
Date:18-Mar-19
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By:
HuntinHabit
Date:18-Mar-19
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Nebraska flooding just ruined any opportunity for shed hunting this year. Maybe the morel season will be good?
By:
Lee
Date:18-Mar-19
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My boy yesterday - he spotted it just before I did - man was he proud! Great bucks, fellas!
Lee
By:
Boone
Date:18-Mar-19
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Nice sheds everyone. I am at 41 and counting.
By:
ROUGHCOUNTRY
Date:20-Mar-19
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It's all relative...…...in the extreme south and areas back east, finding a handful is success. In the Midwest, 30-50 antlers with a few big ones is stellar. Here in the west, we measure in the hundreds between deer, elk and moose sheds. My buddy in eastern Montana found over 400 mule deer sheds last spring and is over 60 this spring and just starting now because of heavy snows.
In the Midwest, I like winter browse like locust groves with bean pods and sunny openings for deer to lounge. Winter grass varieties that are sprouting in woodlots and fence rows. Also, certain types of vines? that grow in the woods attract deer as well. Obvious crops like unplowed soybeans and winter wheat are near the best and think NIGHT. Where are the animals moving around at night when they're active. These can often be low spots (moisture is collecting) and waterways in large ag fields.
By:
ROUGHCOUNTRY
Date:20-Mar-19
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The right antler on this one was 102 inches...…..I spotted that side driving down a black top road going 55 mph laying out in corn stubble. The other side was 85 inches and was on a travel route going back to the timbered ridge behind the ag field.....picked the following day. circa 1995
The big ones are sore thumbs and easy to spot if they're around:)
By:
Hawkeye
Date:20-Mar-19
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My youngest son's first shed today. Priceless:)
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:21-Mar-19
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Finally found one, only been out a few times. I missed this buck last fall. They are as tough to find here as a tick on Cousin It. Found 4 dead deer, from coyote predation, though. One a button buck. I encountered an unafraid coyote a couple weeks ago, so I toted the Winny along in case I saw him again. Did not...
By:
t-roy
Date:21-Mar-19
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Awesome pic, Hawkeye!
By:
Leo17
Date:21-Mar-19
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Leo17
Date:21-Mar-19
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By:
TrapperKayak
Date:25-Mar-19
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Three more this weekend. Best I've ever done in NY. Not done yet either.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:25-Mar-19
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By:
TrapperKayak
Date:25-Mar-19
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A dink on a bright sunny day in the woods with leaves and scattered skiff of snow. You have to walk right up to these. Just luck.
By:
JusPassin
Date:25-Mar-19
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Went out for a couple of hours Saturday. Nothing very large but still fun to find a few.
By:
SB
Date:26-Mar-19
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Wife found one yesterday taking the garbage can to the road....snows finally melting! I looked around a few spots,but nada today. A lot of snow still out there in the woods .
By:
Boone
Date:26-Mar-19
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My wife and I went out over the weekend and found a few more. We hit 60 for the year.
By:
Boone
Date:26-Mar-19
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By:
Boone
Date:26-Mar-19
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By:
t-roy
Date:26-Mar-19
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Very nice, Boone! Lots of matching sets to boot!
I noticed that you put the biggest matched set in the front. Somebody will probably be along soon to accuse you of the equivalent of longarming it! ;-)
By:
Boone
Date:26-Mar-19
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Thanks T-roy. There will always be that one person. lol
By:
EmbryOklahoma
Date:01-Apr-19
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Takes a pro to find these... :)
By:
Brotsky
Date:01-Apr-19
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A little fun on April fool’s day :-)
By:
Boone
Date:01-Apr-19
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Them little ones are tricky Rick. I found 16 more over the weekend, up to 76!
By:
SB
Date:02-Apr-19
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3-4 mi. of hiking and 3 hrs....net results,...three! Nothing notable. Still 2-4 ft. of snow in a lot of the woods . Gonna need more thaw time!
By:
5575
Date:02-Apr-19
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Went out Saturday for about 5 hours. Always great to see that the up and comer bucks you passed up made it through the winter!
By:
t-roy
Date:02-Apr-19
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Nice drop tine, Rick!
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:02-Apr-19
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Not sheds, an up and comer that didnt make it. Found this afternoon near an orchard and suburban area, along with a xbow bolt a few hundred yards away from it. Not incident-related probably. Could be I guess.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:02-Apr-19
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Not sheds, an up and comer that didnt make it. Found this afternoon near an orchard and suburban area, along with a xbow bolt a few hundred yards away from it. Not incident-related probably. Could be I guess.
By:
EmbryOklahoma
Date:03-Apr-19
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Don't be jealous of my monster sheds, Troy.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:03-Apr-19
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Nice drop tine, CM! ;) I AM jealous of that one... I like the human population distribution in that country too.
By:
Boone
Date:03-Apr-19
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Nice haul 5575. Rick, I love the little dropper!
By:
Charlie Rehor
Date:03-Apr-19
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3.5 year old. Rhode Island
Hope I see him this fall:)
By:
Nick Muche
Date:03-Apr-19
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Nice work Boone, you guys are doing very good!
By:
Zbone
Date:03-Apr-19
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Man, some of you guys found some nice ones... Congrats...
Charlie - Am guessing that's from a button buck, a very lucky find... Curious if you found it? I know a deer farmer that's had captive button bucks for years and told me he has never been able to find one of their shed buttons...
By:
bowhunter24
Date:03-Apr-19
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Charlie that may be a Connecticut buck extremely hard to find!
By:
EmbryOklahoma
Date:04-Apr-19
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No wonder folks don't kill bucks in Connecticut, they think the 1-5 year old bucks are does.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:04-Apr-19
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zbone, I don't think it is a button buck, but a 1.5 year old actually. Button bucks don't grow antlers, they just have budding pedicles covered with skin where the antlers will grow from. :) Charlie, I thought I had the smallest one I ever saw, but this one beats it. If I can find a pic of it, I'll post it. Good eye, Man! How did you find that?
By:
MQQSE
Date:04-Apr-19
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It’s a button buck. I’ve seen several like that when I lived in NY. Future Booner if he moves to Iowa.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:04-Apr-19
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MQQSE, are these two button bucks then?
By:
t-roy
Date:04-Apr-19
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Those look like they’ve been cut off the skull to me. I don’t see any pedicles on them. I could be wrong, though.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:04-Apr-19
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They are cut off the skull, but I always figured they were yearlings, not button bucks. The deer were too big to be BBs. The little shed posted also looks like a yearling to me, but I could be wrong...its been known to happen. ;)
By:
Zbone
Date:05-Apr-19
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TrapperKayak - Button bucks shed their buttons, ask a deer farmer... Have seen button bucks 6 - 8 months old with protruding bone through their skin atop their pedicle...
By:
Irishman
Date:05-Apr-19
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Not mine, I don't shed hunt. This is from a friend of mine.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:05-Apr-19
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Irishman, I sure miss doing that! Is that your buddy's haul from this year? Seems a bit early for that many. Wow!
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:05-Apr-19
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Zbone, I believe ya, just never saw any of 'our' button bucks with real bone yet, just bumps under the skin.
Date:05-Apr-19
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Holy Man U guys done well on the finds, I have put in some miles looking just found a dead four pointer.
By:
Bowfinatic
Date:05-Apr-19
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Buck we were pretty sure was dead just hoping to find
By:
Inshart
Date:05-Apr-19
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Yup, looks dead to me. LOL
By:
1boonr
Date:05-Apr-19
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I looked all over but couldn’t find the match
By:
1boonr
Date:05-Apr-19
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I looked all over but couldn’t find the match
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:06-Apr-19
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You Illinois guys must be overrun with deer and not many squirrels either by the looks of the quality of those sheds. You 'boone' guys are cleaning house. Those all from this year? Sheesh...
By:
BullBuster
Date:06-Apr-19
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Found my 7th shed. All left. 1:128 chance statistically. Now why can’t I draw a sheep tag???
By:
lewis
Date:08-Apr-19
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Our place in Tennessee found while doing prescribed burn Lewis
By:
lewis
Date:08-Apr-19
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They match
By:
lewis
Date:08-Apr-19
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Well these do sorry about that
By:
12yards
Date:08-Apr-19
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Charlie Rehor that little shed is an awesome find!
By:
Boone
Date:12-Apr-19
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Well, I broke my personal best record last night after finding 5 more sheds, so I am at 83 sheds for the year, so far!
By:
SJJ
Date:12-Apr-19
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By:
TJF
Date:21-Apr-19
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Saturday was a darn good day.
By:
TJF
Date:21-Apr-19
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Found this Friday evening. Wished I would have found him when he was still a live and bow in hand. 164"
By:
t-roy
Date:22-Apr-19
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TJF.......Those dead heads are always kind of a bummer to find for sure!
By:
TJF
Date:22-Apr-19
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t-roy that is for sure. The next day I found another pretty good one that was really bleached out on some state land. Found a big ant hill and planted it on top. Should get a few hunters when they come over the knoll and look down !!
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:29-Apr-19
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Trapper found the match to my target buck yesterday in a 45 minute hike. That was my goal this year, to find both of those.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:29-Apr-19
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The first one 5 weeks ago.
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:29-Apr-19
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Its bigger than the pic makes it look. Pretty good one for my immediate area (out behind the house). The set. Meager as it is, this is my best shed season in NY locally.
By:
Carcajou
Date:29-Apr-19
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He is still on his feet, He will await your prowess this coming season. Good luck.
By:
cnelk
Date:29-Apr-19
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I found this. I really hope he gets bigger this year.
By:
ELK ELSEWHERE
Date:29-Apr-19
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I found one while bush hogging corn stalks, should have been looking closer
By:
t-roy
Date:29-Apr-19
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At least you didn’t find it with the tractor tire, EE!
By:
ROUGHCOUNTRY
Date:29-Apr-19
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My son found the match flyer side this weekend from a mule deer single I picked up last fall elk hunting. Amazingly, they were in good shape and excellent color even laying out six months and one year on the sides.
By:
Elite 1
Date:29-Apr-19
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My son had a good day of shed hunting.
By:
Lee
Date:29-Apr-19
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That’s a big mulie!
By:
TrapperKayak
Date:30-Apr-19
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Nice mulie set roughcountry. Its always a bonus finding the second side weeks or even months later. Know the feeling. Here is what I'll be focusing on all year, and after him this fall. He and I have a brief one-season 'history' now. Hoping to continue the relationship.
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Craig
Date:30-Apr-19
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Found this nice 4 while I was baiting bears.