Shednut’s 2010 season journal

Well I’m finally on the board with my first find of the year today (1/25). I’ve been covering quite a bit of ground without anything to show for it, but that’s the way it goes sometimes. Today I walked a co-workers farm as his neighbor has standing corn along one of his fencelines. The area looked like it was going to give up a full arm load but as I got into the cover I came across lots of boot tracks from this past weekend(unreal how the amount of trespassing for sheds has increased in the last couple years ). They can’t find them all though 55″ 4 point but the score doesn’t really do it justice.

Great start

“Those people” seem to be everywhere. Awesome find! Congrats!

Great find!

Congrats shednut! And with an avatar name like that – we expect a lot more!

Congrats!

Yesterday (2/3) BB and I took a walk on some ground that I had walked about three weeks ago. There really wasn’t any fresh sign but it was full of deer the last time I walked it, so I figured covering it well may produce something. I searched through two nice bedding points that were loaded with sign but I came up empty. From there I worked a few trails leading to a cut corn field and low and behold I spotted this from about 30 yards out. BB snagged it as I was taking a second ATL photo.

Nice job man and great pic’s of the pup
I need to get myself a shed dog

Nice find shednut! It looks like BB is starting to catch on!

Great work maybe you and BB can come down and hike a weekend with me

Thanks fellas. Yeah BB certainly know’s what we’re looking for and she loves antlers but still has a long ways to go. She has a little too much pup in her yet and tends to cover ground too fast to really pickup on the shed’s scent. I don’t really mind as she’s good company to have along on my hikes.

I just took a quick little hike and picked up this little dink in a bed. BB actually stood on top of it while taking my first ATL I pryed it from the ice for a pic.

Gut, just say the word and I’ll come help you search for that missing 4 point. I have faith that you’ll be able to find it on your own though. Sometimes they just don’t show up till snowmelt.

A shed is a shed , Congrats again

The last two days were pretty good for a buddy and I. Yesterday we went to a spot of mine that always produces a few decent sheds. It’s pasture ground that has two really good bedding points on it. Unfortunately I picked the wrong point to walk and my friend Eric picked up three freshies in short order. Today we went to one of Eric’s spots and we managed to find another three sheds. I spotted the first from about 40 yards out but BB picked it up before I could get any photo’s of it. As I was walking up to the first one I found another small 4 point laying about 15 yards from the first. A short while later Eric picked up another smallish 4 point along the field edge. No real great photo’s of any of the sheds as the dogs were a little to quick for any ATL’s.

Nice work and great pics

Great pics and congrats on the sheds

When your dogs are picking up the sheds before you is a good thing right? I’m betting many of us would love to have that problem. Congrats on your finds and thanks for sharing your pictures with us.

Brad, yeah it’s definitely a good thing when the dogs are beating me to the shed for ATL’s although I really like to get ATL’s too.

I took a 3 hour walk on monday on a picked cornfield and struck out. Lots of sign from the last few weeks but no sheds that I was able to spot. Tuesday I hit some big country with my buddy Eric again. Just a 100 yards into the walk I come across a nice little 4 point laying tines down along a field edge. Then we followed a ridgeline that had some sign but certainly wasn’t loaded with deer. Our intention was to cover bedding areas on our way to a food source that Eric had already found nearly a dozen sheds in….well we walked our tails off and never found a shed until we got to the food source that he had struck gold in. A short while after getting to where all the deer were feeding Eric picked up a spike, 15 minutes later I came across a three point laying along a trail and managed to get one ATL before BB snagged it . That makes two more for the season total for me, not too shaby for the amount of snow that most places are still holding.

Keep it up shednut

Very cool shednut! Awesome pictures too! Keep the shed reports coming!

Well the magical month of March is finally upon us! Yesterday I hiked the farm that I found my first shed of the season on. My timing was once again off as I found fresh boot tracks from a day or two prior I covered alot of ground with out turning anything up, and with my legs getting weak I headed back for the truck. The last bedding point that I decided to check on my way to the truck held this nice little matched set! Funny how a fruitless walk can turn around in no time flat.

Way to go shed I’m running into more boot tracks that horns but not giving up and still finding some Congrats and great pic’s

Congrats shednut! I bet it was a rewarding feeling making that last find at the end of the day.

Awesome Set!!
Just askin’ How many hours do you think you have into shedhunting this year?

Nice work shednut

Funny how you can be dragging Then find 1 and get all fired up again

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Awesome Set!!
Just askin’ How many hours do you think you have into shedhunting this year?

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Walleye,
I haven’t kept track but If I had to guess I would say that I’ve walked close to 50 hours(9 sheds). This has been the poorest start to my shed season that I’ve had in the last 5 years. Lots more competition and lack of access is really making it hard for me to put up numbers like I used to. Hopefully things will pick up for me on the 15th, I have 7 days off and I’ll be hitting my best farm that week.

Very impressive. I don’t know many that can average a shed every 5 hours. And if it picks up from there that’s some serious action. Good luck on your 7 day hunt!

Yesterday was a great day, beautiful weather once again and had a really good time walking a spot that my buddy has permission to bowhunt. There weren’t many deer there as there isn’t any feed close by. We walked for two hours with nothing to show for it, when I come into an area that just felt “sheddy”. I looked up the hillside to see two long tines sticking up underneath a red cedar. A short while later my buddy Caleb shouted “whooo hooo!” with his first find of the year. It turned out to be the match to the one I had just found. The area was tore up with rubs and we were talking about how he could set up on this buck in the upcoming bowseason…..when all of a sudden I turn around and BB is standing there with her first solo find! I am one proud papa She pulled a real cool one too with some pretty nice character.

Awesome! Hopefully that will be one of many to come for BB!

Wow , Nice job shed Them are some great sheds and pic’s