Picked up my first fresh shed of the season December 15th. First fully shed buck on camera for me was December 13th with 2 more shedding out on the 14th.
Big Game Hunting
2020 Shed season
Shed hunted a 45ac bean field Friday with high hopes. Wife found her first shed ever, a nice 4pt side. Saturday we walked a 15ac field and came up empty. We decide to split up and drive around 2 smaller fields in the utv’s. Wife n I in one my kids in the other. I told the kids $5 if they find a shed to keep them interest. Sure enough here they come up to us cheering and all smiles. My Son found his first shed. It was a big broken tine. I look at and realize he had found a true needle in a hay field! It was the unicorn pt off the 16pt the neighbor shot during gun season. What r the odds!!! He broke it off the week before gun season. Just over 12in long. The neighbor is a very happy man! Had to share this crazy store
Shed hunted a 45ac bean field Friday with high hopes. Wife found her first shed ever, a nice 4pt side. Saturday we walked a 15ac field and came up empty. We decide to split up and drive around 2 smaller fields in the utv’s. Wife n I in one my kids in the other. I told the kids $5 if they find a shed to keep them interest. Sure enough here they come up to us cheering and all smiles. My Son found his first shed. It was a big broken tine. I look at and realize he had found a true needle in a hay field! It was the unicorn pt off the 16pt the neighbor shot during gun season. What r the odds!!! He broke it off the week before gun season. Just over 12in long. The neighbor is a very happy man! Had to share this crazy store.
Had a fun weekend with some buddies walking ~500 acres in West Central, IL the weekend of March 7th. Found 28 fresh antlers, including 8 matched sets. The sunny skies made things a bit challenging, but that's part of it!
Full video link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoIY8gcDFp8&t=0s
Saw 6 deer in a field near dark last night so stopped to look. All were bucks, one was shed, one had shed one side and the other 4 had both sides still, that was surprising! I haven’t seen an antlered buck in a few weeks til yesterday, figured most had shed by now. No wonder I can’t find any lol.
I walked up a huge ridge. Took a second to catch my breath looked to my left and there they were 10 feet away. Got both sides 2 years in a row. With an average cutical spacing of 2 5/8 gave him a 20 inch spread. 168 3/8 before deductions give or take alittle. Beyond stoked
Been 100% shed out on my cameras for about 4.5 weeks now in far NW WI. Too much snow to find any though. We had a couple feet of snow after the bulk of the drop too place and still have over 18" on the ground now. I have about 8.5 miles in but the 2 sheds I found were in front of cameras. Nothing found walking trails to checking beds.