post your shed hunting photos

[twitchstick]

Here is one I found last week. It's not a fresh one but It's a start to this seasons collection.

[helo]

Great pictures keep it up. Shed hunting is always great fun and a good workout. I wont be going out until march, way too much snow here to get to the areas that I look for sheds.

[slivrslingr]

Sheds tend to be found in 3 areas, bedding, feeding and travel corridors.  Deer use different bedding areas in the cold winter/spring months than in the summer, so look for south facing areas that have fairly thick cover.  The south facing slopes get more sun and the brush/trees cut the wind which reduces the energy expenditure of the deer.  It's best to wait until spring hits to look for sheds as the deer are quite stressed this time of year, mostly from the rut and cold weather, so hiking around pushing them out of their "living rooms" can put an undo demand on them.  Some unscrupulous people deliberately push the deer hoping their antlers will fall off in flight, so be considerate of the resource and wait 'til it warms up to start looking.

[paleFace]

picked this set of sheds up in Texas last year. He dropped them right where you see them.
   

[trubltrubl]

nice picks everyone!!! Yes I also look in bedding areas and feeding areas and travel routes...My dog is trained not to chase deer and he helps find sheds when they are fresh . If we see a deer in the area we plan to look....we leave him alone...and move on...I don't like stressing the deer. I use my binoculars to look in fields where the deer feed looking for anything that sticks up off the ground. In bedding areas I look  in narrow trail areas a buck might catch his antlers on a branch. Really got lucky on that find of the big guy...kinda had him figured on his bedding area and lucky to find them when they were fresh

[KellyG]

I have never done it but I have heard of antler traps. basically it is 3 poles driven into the ground  about 4' long in a triangle. Put chicken wire on the top 18" or so and put corn or apples. I think the poles or 18"-20" or so. Anyone ever use them. I still do it the hard way and never find them. I go out after morels or turkey and bam there they are.

[hightop_hunter]

I love shed hunting.
im trying to teach my mums new dog how to shed hunt. the lil fella loves chewing on antlers.

[KellyG]

I found this one last spring out hunting mushrooms, I just traded it off, for a hickory stave.
 

[Ian johnson]

Ive never actually gone shed hunting, when is the best time to look for them? I doubt I would find any in the swamps down here though.

[northern fisher]

When I lived back home in Nova Scotia I used to stumble into them all the time but since I,ve moved to Ontario I,ve yet to find my first one.
I,m really hoping to find some moose sheds.Maybe this year  

[ron w]

I have found a few, but it must be something to be where there a lager numbers of deer and be able to find many over the course of time.....really neat stuff!

[23feetupandhappy]

Boy these pics get me fired up for shed hunting    

One from a couple of years ago:

 

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This is the biggest 7 pointer we have ever seen!!!
found about 30 yards appart.
 

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[KentuckyTJ]

No way I'm posting any of my dink sheds after seeing yours.

[mooseman76]

 

Found these in the '10 spring turkey season.  Never knew this deer was around, and this is an area that I hunt and am very familar with.  No luck this year, but know of someone catching him on a trail cam after the firearms season...Mike