It pays to take a little time to break down your shed hunting ground and form a quick strategy.
It pays to take a little time to break down your shed hunting ground and form a quick strategy.
If you’re going to be doing some serious shed hunting, where you expect to find a bunch of sheds or plan to be walking for several days, here’s what to bring.
Where to look for sheds is a broad topic that varies across whitetail range, depending on what habitat is available. But two things are universal.
There’s no magic gizmo that will help you shoot big bucks. The same can be said for finding shed antlers.
There’s still plenty of time to search for deer antlers this spring before the heat, green and bugs of summer take over and you’d rather be sitting on a beach or in a boat than hiking through the woods. As you hunt the woods for sheds and scout along the way, remember to focus most of your efforts in key areas so you don’t waste precious time in less-productive spots. Bedding areas need to be one of the top spots to check out, since deer spend a large majority of their time bedded during the winter – especially in colder climates. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when hunting for those dropped deer antlers.
One of the first things a shed hunter realizes about searching for deer antler sheds is that you’re charged with covering an infinite amount of space with a finite amount of free time. No one has time to look by every tree, the trick becomes maximizing the time you have by focusing on the best spots.
It’s antler shed hunting season in many eastern states in the country, and the western states won’t be far behind in a month or two. Everyone loves getting out in their deer hunting areas to scout last season’s sign, look for new spots, and find those highly sought-after deer sheds. And what better way to utilize those deer sheds, than to create your own knife handles with them.
If you want to find more shed antlers you have to search where whitetails congregate and you need to put boots on the ground. In addition to these two simple elements you can up your antler game and gain by incorporating a common piece of hunting equipment. No, it’s not an ATV to ride around […]
In recent years, shed hunting has become the biggest pre-turkey season springtime fad for hunters. The “white gold” of a buck’s shed antlers has become something to keep our desire to hunt at bay while nothing is in season. But what if you’re not finding any bone? You see all your friends flooding Instagram with images […]
Hey everybody, check this out. It is one of the coolest videos I’ve seen come across my desk in a while. Jeff Enns posted this on YouTube a while ago, but we first saw it now. He writes: “Here is a mule deer buck that I have trail cam videos and videos of in hunting […]