All college students learn how to procrastinate! Thats one of the biggest things I've learned so far lol.
Oh, I'm the king at it! Get a week to do homework, do it the night before. Have a week to read half your textbook, skim through the night before
Nice work fellas. Keep pounding it. Obviously, we're not going to catch Team Lone Star, but the Lollipop Guild can still represent! I'm off work tomorrow, so I'm going balls-to-the-wall, and accepting nothing less than a 4-shed day. I've got a 12 mile walk sketched out, but hopefully I run into some sheds, get to start gridding, and don't have to go that far. This seems to be my biggest problem this shed season...
Good luck Fran! I plan on going out tomorrow to hang a cam and check a cam. May also do some stand prep to cut some of the major issues now. Do you find most of yours in fields or timber Quik? I've walked the fields and found 7, but can't find one in the timber to save my life.
I try to follow Tim & Troys' collective guides to shed hunting. They have always preached picking the edges, so that's what I do. If I see a field edge that borders a bedding area, I pick it. Likewise, if there's a hard break in the terrain, a well-defined thicket edge and/or a line where pine turns to hardwoods, I focus there. Ridges, benches, windbreaks... I rarely find sheds out laying more than 40 yds into a field, but I have to temper that by saying that we really don't have a lot of huge fields in my neck of the woods. Everything is so hilly that most fields are long and narrow, sometimes almost snaking through the geography, with a lot of edge features. Many of the fields that we shed hunt near are barely 100 yards wide, bounded on all sides by more woods, houses, roads, etc. As far as open timber goes, we find a VERY small percentage of our sheds in these areas. Here again, maybe we don't find many because we're not looking there. I don't have a lot of time to shed hunt, so when I go, I hammer the most high-percentage honeyholes that I can. I almost run from sheddy area to sheddy area, so as to not waste any time shredding through areas where I know I'll be lucky to stumble onto something. I hope that makes sense.
It makes sense. I've mainly just grid searched the fields (mostly winter wheat, the sheds show up in the green fields), so I think I'll go back to my main piece tomorrow and re-walk all the edges, and maybe the first 10 yards in?
Kansas is a little different than where you guys are, but I have only ever found 2 sheds in a field. The rest were in draws where they travel between the fields and bed, and in the nooks and crannies of the draws where they bed. I occasionally find a random shed in the middle of a pasture, but those are few and far between.
Found First 2 of the year yesterday.Matched set.a lot of bucks are still holding but im goin back out today.
Bad news, Gentlemen. I walked my *** off on Friday, and came out with one puny 5x side. One shed. #$%%^#!$!#^*#&%$#!$%$#
Walked some saturday in what we thought was a promising area one guys picked up two and it wasnt me. We were dissapointed. Hopefully next weekend I'll get on the board.
We are updated to this point, I count 44 sheds so far. I am planning on going out after class today, so hopefully I find something.
Maybe I'll take the bandsaw to one of my better sheds, and hack it into 150 pieces. Would that count?
Just the pedicle one of the 150 pieces. I would give you crap about sucking at shedding this year but me seems to be in the same boat. :p Oh wait... you have found more sheds then I have !! Life just isn't worth living anymore or hell froze over. With the warm temps, I don't think it is the latter. Tim
Well.... No luck for me lately, been out a couple times and haven't found a thing. Besides enough cow bones to make 5 anatomically correct bovine skeletons This heat just takes the drive out of me, climbing all these hills wearing jeans and boots. I did finally score that skull I found earlier in the season, it scored 135 5/8. Slightly bigger than I was thinking it would score, but I'm not complaining. Found 5 skulls that size or bigger in the past two years. 184", 173", 142", a 140 ish, and the 135". I did end up figuring out what deer the 70" shed came off of, came from my crooked brow buck I was getting tons of pictures of this season with the buck I shot. It is the deer on the right, his left side:
