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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
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01/28/15 03:55 PM
01/28/15 03:55 PM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 10,414 Scottsboro, Al
jbatey1
Lucky Bastage
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Lucky Bastage
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 10,414
Scottsboro, Al
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Myself and TravisBatey plan on giving it a shot. We've got an extremely well trained yellow lab. He's an excellent duck dog, we'll see how he does with sheds.
The fool tells me his reasons; the wise man persuades me with my own.
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
#1244589
01/28/15 04:33 PM
01/28/15 04:33 PM
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Joined: May 2014
Posts: 1,555 Jasper, Al
muddyfeet
8 point
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8 point
Joined: May 2014
Posts: 1,555
Jasper, Al
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I found a 3 sheds last year. Best time to look is turkey season. I've also heard that the harder the winter the earlier they drop their horns.
EPHESIANS 6:12
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
#1244592
01/28/15 04:35 PM
01/28/15 04:35 PM
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Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 11 Huntsville, Al
SDLindermanjr
spike
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spike
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 11
Huntsville, Al
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Yep my lab finds them for me. Any tips for training a dog? My lab has a excellent nose for one. Take your old sheds and let your dog get familiar with them. Do a few retrieves so that he gets use to having it in their mouth. Hide a few in your back yard in simple locations at first and reward whenever they find the sheds. Do this with repetition and reward. It worked well for me. My dog "Boss" has found a boat load over the years.
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
#1244596
01/28/15 04:36 PM
01/28/15 04:36 PM
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Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 2,330 North Alabama
robinhedd
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 2,330
North Alabama
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I need to post up a couple of matvhing sets I've found. 1 is a dandy matching 8 from Marion County AL , the other is a stud 10 point from Ohio. I'll try & get pics up.
"Guess I just got too much Mathews in me!"
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: SDLindermanjr]
#1244844
01/29/15 12:54 AM
01/29/15 12:54 AM
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Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,915 PNW
kodiak06
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 11,915
PNW
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Yep my lab finds them for me. Any tips for training a dog? My lab has a excellent nose for one. Take your old sheds and let your dog get familiar with them. Do a few retrieves so that he gets use to having it in their mouth. Hide a few in your back yard in simple locations at first and reward whenever they find the sheds. Do this with repetition and reward. It worked well for me. My dog "Boss" has found a boat load over the years. That's what I do... My dog has an elk shed for a chew toy in the yard, lol. I have about 4 or 5 spares and when I think he's chewed down to maybe cause a problem, I swap it out with a new one. He like finding them when I hide them.
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: kodiak06]
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01/29/15 01:14 AM
01/29/15 01:14 AM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 183 Sycamore Al
Austin_243
OP
3 point
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OP
3 point
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 183
Sycamore Al
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Yep my lab finds them for me. Any tips for training a dog? My lab has a excellent nose for one. Take your old sheds and let your dog get familiar with them. Do a few retrieves so that he gets use to having it in their mouth. Hide a few in your back yard in simple locations at first and reward whenever they find the sheds. Do this with repetition and reward. It worked well for me. My dog "Boss" has found a boat load over the years. That's what I do... My dog has an elk shed for a chew toy in the yard, lol. I have about 4 or 5 spares and when I think he's chewed down to maybe cause a problem, I swap it out with a new one. He like finding them when I hide them. I got a pit that LOVES deer horns and chews on them. But his problem is he loves squirrels and coons to!! Cant take him in the woods without treeing or id see how he hunted sheds!
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
#1245122
01/29/15 05:59 AM
01/29/15 05:59 AM
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Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,148 alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 36,148
alabama
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Fullthrottle, thank you on the room, I'm going to post a full pic of it after season goes out. I finally finished it up.
The sheds are proof of a well spent life, 90% of the time IN the woods, year round for decades and decades.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Shed Hunting!!!!!
[Re: Austin_243]
#1245457
01/29/15 10:32 AM
01/29/15 10:32 AM
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Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 308 NE, AL
ACP
4 point
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4 point
Joined: Apr 2013
Posts: 308
NE, AL
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I'm planning on it. I have a 40AC pine thicket in the middle of my place and its the bedroom for a lot of deer on the property. We don't step foot inside the entire 40AC during the season, but get in there some afterwards. Its amazing to me the trails they make in that stuff. Got a pick of a huge 10 last year going into the pines at dark and coming out mid morning with only one side left. Never found it, but I'm gonna start there this year. I have read that you can string fishing line around your feeders when they start dropping and it pulls a few loose. Anyone have any luck doing something like this?
Some do, some don't....what's it gonna be?
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