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Shed hunting
#561603
03/23/13 06:49 PM
03/23/13 06:49 PM
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TurkeyHammer
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Covered some serious ground today around two food plots today looking for sheds. Didn't find one. Any useful shed hunting techniques ya'll use?
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: TurkeyHammer]
#561608
03/23/13 07:10 PM
03/23/13 07:10 PM
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2Dogs
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I find them in plots/fields,edge of plots, trails leading from plots and around feeders. If you are mostly wooded that's about the best you can do. You can walk trails, if you have the time, good way to scout and learn the area. You need to look in areas they freguent this time of year. Can be tough in this part of the country, % of open land versus woods not like the mid-west. If you're near wheat fields walk them and use binos before the wheat gets too tall. Here's an example of why they can be so hard to find in hardwoods.
Last edited by 2Dogs; 03/24/13 07:28 AM.
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: TurkeyHammer]
#563534
03/27/13 09:48 AM
03/27/13 09:48 AM
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AlabamaSwamper
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I'm about done this year. FOund 9 including this matching set. I have three years of history with him. He was a 7pt then added the 8th last year and just got heavier this year. Probably isn't over 12" inside but will go 115". I'm just about positive he's a 4yr old this year. He dropped both between Jan 20 and 24. I've searched for the match to this one with no luck. Probably my favorite this year..
Last edited by AlabamaSwamper; 03/27/13 09:51 AM.
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Re: Shed hunting
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#563593
03/27/13 11:18 AM
03/27/13 11:18 AM
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Nice ALSwamper. on the spike, as hard as the big ones are to find, those little spikes are a prize. Big one dropped Jan 20 -24, sounds like you really need 2 more weeks in Feb........ NOT! I'd like to stick a big shed up Sen. Whatley's ass.
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Re: Shed hunting
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#563703
03/27/13 01:04 PM
03/27/13 01:04 PM
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AlabamaSwamper
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I actually had pics of that spike in mid January without that antler and I the way it was mashed down, I must have been parking my truck right on top of it. The day I found it, I parked on the road and had a bag of corn on my shoulder headed to the camera and had to call my dad over to pick the shed up. I was afraid I wouldn't find it again.
2dogs, although I know and understand certain areas rut different than others, those sheds, although found in TN are only 8.5 miles from the AL state line. Our deer are done by mid December, same as the deer in my area of AL in Lauderdale CO. Not rare at all to see bucks grouped back up around here in January. I honestly can't speak for SW Alabama.
I'll try to take a pic of my string of spike sheds. I find more of those than anything I think.
Last edited by AlabamaSwamper; 03/27/13 01:12 PM.
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: AlabamaSwamper]
#563722
03/27/13 01:33 PM
03/27/13 01:33 PM
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2Dogs
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Love finding sheds! Bout as much fun as killing them. I found a dandy pair last year, I'm thinking about mounting them to a skull and making a euro out of them.I had several pics just days before he dropped them. Didn't see hide nor hair of him in hunting season.
Don't mean to hi-jack or offend by my post ^^^, but it makes my blood boil to think some LA lawmaker wants to screw with extreme NAs season. I guess 49er thinks it's OK, because the constitution says he can.
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Always vote the slowest path to socialism.
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: TurkeyHammer]
#563727
03/27/13 01:43 PM
03/27/13 01:43 PM
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AlabamaSwamper
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That particular buck lives in a 200 acre area of our farm/lease. I've got his bedding area narrowed down to two core areas on each side of the road. He's been seen only once......as a 2.5yr old 7pt. Last year and this year he was a ghost except on camera. He uses a thick hardwood side hollow to travel and it seems he stays right in those areas. Never a picture outside those areas in three years. Not even during the rut. I've hunted the fringes, the core and everywhere in between this year to kill him. Didn't work.
BTR Scorer in NW Alabama
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: TurkeyHammer]
#563979
03/27/13 06:10 PM
03/27/13 06:10 PM
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foldemup
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I think I have found around 10 including 2 spikes (one side of 2 different spikes).
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Re: Shed hunting
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#564000
03/27/13 06:36 PM
03/27/13 06:36 PM
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2Dogs
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I think I have found around 10 including 2 spikes (one side of 2 different spikes). Your dog helping with those finds?
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Re: Shed hunting
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03/28/13 09:29 AM
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foldemup
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I think I have found around 10 including 2 spikes (one side of 2 different spikes). Your dog helping with those finds? She has actually only found one that I didn't see, but when I see one in a food plot, I take her to the plot and let her find it. She is getting better, but the frustrating part is she can pass by one 3 feet away if she is upwind of it, then her next swing will be 10-15 yards downwind and she doesn't smell it. Seems like she has to get about 5 yards from it before she smells it. The good part is she can cover a whole lot more ground in a hurry when I send her into the cutover/woods surrounding a food plot
Last edited by foldemup; 03/28/13 09:30 AM.
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Re: Shed hunting
[Re: TurkeyHammer]
#564915
03/28/13 09:41 PM
03/28/13 09:41 PM
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FurFlyin
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A friend of mine saw 2, 6 points and a spike in a field in south Dekalb county yesterday, all 3 still with fully intact headgear.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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