I got in a quick shed hunt today after work. Dont know why but paid shed hunts poped up in my thoughts! I didnt find any today but got to thinking how many miles and time I put in every season on 800 acres of prime whitetail habitat. I average between 5-12 sheds a year. It just bugs me and cant help think that advertised paid shed hunts are likely the product of fresh bought sheds and placed on properties. Im sure some are legit but im sure alot are tainted. Whats your thoughts and opinions on this? Dan
Me neither, especially if I werent hunting them. For the record i would consider buting a set of Moose sheds but only because I want to engrave something on them LOL
They had something like that around here last year. Think it was put on by whitetail properties. Not sure if it was a pay kind of thing. I'm not sure I'd pay for it but goin out to something like that wouldn't be all that bad. It'd be more of the social aspect with other hunters that I'd enjoy. Kinda like being on here ha
Don't think I'd pay, but I'd sure like to be able to go onto some of these ranches and find those antlers! But then again, there's nothing like finding antlers to bucks you can actually hunt in the fall.
I don't shed hunt for free, I sure wouldn't pay to do it. Shed hold no value to me at all. In fact if any one wanted to shed hunt my land ...have at it.
So are you saying people pay to trespass in a high fence antler hunt.... and they supply the sheds as they chum the woods with bone For $$$ Is this for real?
I wanted to go to Bentley Cobens in Canada to get some brownies but rumor has it that no sheds can come across the boarders now. I have not seen anything official on that but that would suck.
Some people take shed hunting way too serious. Two guys died last year when their helicopter crashed in the mountains while looking for elk sheds.
Ultra your losing me here! Not talking anything at all about tresspassing anywhere! Point was, just say an outfitter, in the off season. Has clients come in pay a fee to look for sheds on his property! I cant help think that alot of places buy bone, plant them, to reel people in claiming they have such and such success rate on shed finds when in fact most never came from that property! Could be used as a tool to get clients to sign up for hunts in the fall. Again some may be legit but im betting most are not!
Unreal yeah thats to serious and ashame! Personally I like the challenge, its when I do my scouting, love the exercise and it gets me away from the wife :D
Ultramax is obsessed with trespassers, I think he thinks about trespassers as much as crack addicts think of crack. He probably read trespassing 15 times in my post.
With as expensive any decent shed is to buy these days they must be charging an awful lot for these shed hunts to make them profitable, or they are only planting small sheds. and the answer for me is obviously no.
I might possibly consider paying a small trespass fee to a rancher to shed hunt, but no way would I pay an outfitter to guide me to shed hunt. I'd love to get out west and shed hunt for some Mullie and Elk sheds.
Finding a shed is great, but when I'm "shed hunting", it's low on the lists of reasons I'm there. A guided shed hunt would nullify nearly all the other reasons I do it. No.
