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 finding sheds
#1253672
02/19/10 02:36 AM
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powerstroke
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Bird Dog
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Question? after 20 plus years hunting.I can honestly say I have never found any sheds in all the leases i had.I've planted,plowed,scouted,walked,cut,pushed timber,cussed,drank,fell,etc..Whats the secret?
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: powerstroke]
#1253677
02/19/10 02:38 AM
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Closed Traverse
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get lucky... i find em all the time on accident, had several ruin sum tractor tires.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Closed Traverse]
#1253678
02/19/10 02:39 AM
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craige
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I just stopped looking. I have yet to find one.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: craige]
#1253692
02/19/10 02:41 AM
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rifleman
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I follow water.... drain creek, etc, they jump them, they lose them on the edge, they might fall down in a creek and get washed up on a sandbar. I looked for a week straight last year and didn't find the first one while looking, first time I mowed the pasture, the bushhog found 3.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: rifleman]
#1253835
02/19/10 03:32 AM
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JCB
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Creek bottoms and fence lines are the two places I find the most. When they jump the fence it jars the antlers loose. Trails leading to and from feeders are good places to look also.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: JCB]
#1253866
02/19/10 03:46 AM
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Big Tony
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Put a couple inches of corn in the bottom of a bucket. With the bucket on the ground, wire the bucket handle to a tree near a trail. Bucks will sometimes knock their horns off trying to get to the corn.
"A hunt based only on trophies taken, falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be." -Fred Bear
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Big Tony]
#1253871
02/19/10 03:47 AM
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Joined: Jun 2008
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Big Tony
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If U can't find the horns, get the horns to find you.
"A hunt based only on trophies taken, falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be." -Fred Bear
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Big Tony]
#1254068
02/19/10 04:49 AM
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RMR
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really thick places, creek bottoms and other than that luck
The beauty of the Second Ammendment is it won't be needed until they try and take it.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: RMR]
#1254348
02/19/10 09:03 AM
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10pointers
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They just appear when your not expecting them in my case anyhow.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: JCB]
#1254465
02/19/10 01:55 PM
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Eland Slayer
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Creek bottoms and fence lines are the two places I find the most. When they jump the fence it jars the antlers loose. Trails leading to and from feeders are good places to look also. You nailed it......we've found tons of sheds by walking down the trails that lead away from feeders, and by just walking fence lines.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Eland Slayer]
#1254473
02/19/10 02:02 PM
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txtrophy85
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man i've found hundreds of sheds.......but until i started hunting really high density deer areas i think i've found only a handful.
fence lines and brushy games trails is where if find most of them.
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Eland Slayer]
#1254573
02/19/10 02:44 PM
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Kawabuggy
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I actually found a shed before deer season this year. It was on a well used game path. I had walked that path 2-3 times in the previous week and never saw it.
I was walking it again and just happened to look down and see it. Even though it was stark white-it was still pretty hard to see laying in the grass.
A hog is nothing more than a bullet receptacle.
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: Eland Slayer]
#1254613
02/19/10 03:03 PM
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Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 7,318
BenBob
THF Trophy Hunter
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Find a lot in fields while riding an ATV and a lot along fence lines and on both sides of fence surrounding feed pens.
Tired, Wired, and Uninspired
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Re: finding sheds
[Re: powerstroke]
#1255513
02/19/10 09:40 PM
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Joined: Jan 2009
Posts: 179
the rattler
Woodsman
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Woodsman
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You really have to look for them as they blend in well, get eaten up by rats & critters. My friend will always find 2-3 per yr wherever we hunt when I never see em. Now I look harder before he gets there.
"110 Rattlers to date, so many snakes,so little time"
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