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Author Topic: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning  (Read 386 times)

Offline LONGHORN

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Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« on: January 02, 2009, 03:49:00 PM »
Went for some stumps shooting this morning,our deer season closed on Dec 31st,not much to do around here but to stump shoot and keeping an eye for sheds.While crossing a deer trail,I saw some blood into the trail,I back tracked for about 20 yards and found this set almost on top of each other    :) ,they probably were only a few minutes  old because it was snowing when I left home and there was barely any snow on them,
got lucky    :D
 

 
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Offline Frenchymanny

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2009, 03:55:00 PM »
Wow!!!! Amazing!

That will be an awesome buck next year   ;)  

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2009, 03:56:00 PM »
Thats awesome Longhorn! :thumbsup:  

Hey appox. How much does it cost for a Michigander to cross the bridge for moose or caribou? Any idea where I can find the info? Thanks
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Offline Izzy

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2009, 03:56:00 PM »
Theyre perty.That riser is too.Is it a Martini?
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Offline LONGHORN

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2009, 04:20:00 PM »
PM sent hardwaymike.

Yes Manny this will be a good one next fall!! Still a couple huge sets of tracks in there too!!

Izzy,this is my favorite bow,a Belcher longhorn,the riser is Nicaraguan cocobolo.

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2009, 04:23:00 PM »
Too cool.  In almost 30 years of hunting, I've found exactly 1 matched set.
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Offline Stick_N_String

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2009, 04:25:00 PM »
BONUS!!! Nice set of sheds!!!
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Offline LONGHORN

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2009, 04:29:00 PM »
Otto,this is my fourth matched set,the first three went to Frank and Shell,probably this one too    :D .I stump shoot near a deer yard,lots of trails and the odds of finding sheds are good.
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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2009, 04:30:00 PM »
Cool!
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Offline Frenchymanny

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2009, 04:33:00 PM »
On top of the location, you have a sharp eye for sheds  ;)
Too cool!  :wavey:
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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2009, 04:39:00 PM »
Nice sheds  :thumbsup:
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Offline LONGHORN

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #11 on: January 02, 2009, 04:49:00 PM »
quote:
Originally posted by Frenchymanny:
On top of the location, you have a sharp eye for sheds   ;)  
Too cool!   :knothead:    :bigsmyl:
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Offline Coonbait

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #12 on: January 02, 2009, 06:11:00 PM »
Way to go! The ones I find always have a skull attached to them. Find dead bucks whilie running my trap lines a lot. Always around the creeks.
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Offline Red Beastmaster

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #13 on: January 02, 2009, 07:13:00 PM »
Longhorn,

"While crossing a deer trail,I saw some blood into the trail......"

Are you saying the blood was from the antler bases? I did not know that.

Nice find by the way.
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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #14 on: January 02, 2009, 07:44:00 PM »
nice find!
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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #15 on: January 02, 2009, 09:09:00 PM »
David, It happened to me 2 or 3 times while looking for sheds, to back track when finding blood in deer trails,and you can get lucky at times.
I don't know for sure if they all bleed when they shed (maybe someone here knows better)but I know it occur often.I don't think they bleed for long though.
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Offline Dave Bulla

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2009, 01:48:00 AM »
As I understand it, it's about like loosing a baby tooth.  The antler gets detatched because the new one is trying to grow in underneath.  It get loose and just like a tooth, when it comes out there's usually a little blood.  I think when a deer nocks them off a tad early as opposed to them just falling off on their own there is more chance for blood.
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Offline vtmtnman

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #17 on: January 03, 2009, 06:00:00 AM »
Sweet find!I've only found one shed in 18 years of hunting and that was a Moose shed in Maine.I'm sure you find those all the time up in Canuckland.  :thumbsup:
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Offline shedhunter

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #18 on: January 03, 2009, 09:47:00 AM »
It has to do with photo period (amount of daylight) it triggers a drastic reduction in testosterone, when the testosterone gets to a certain  point a layer of cells begins to reabsorb calcium, when that layer of bone fully breaks down the wieght of the antler will cause it to fall off.  There can be blood and the pedical will take 6-10 hrs to scab over.  Stress can also make them shed early.  Friends in RI told me of many bucks killed in early Dec already dropped.  Stress due to a very bad year for  mast crops, most likely.  They are dropping here in southern MI.  I've seen them with both anlers as late a 3rd week of april.  Hope this helps.   ron
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Offline Chris Surtees

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Re: Found sheds while stump shooting this morning
« Reply #19 on: January 03, 2009, 10:53:00 AM »
pretty awesome find   :thumbsup:
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