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Alright, I've never had the shed hunting skills or luck to post anything like this but this shed season started off with such a bang that I'm going to take the plunge and hope for the best.
Last Sunday was the first serious shed hunt of the season. I packed up the wife and the dog and we headed to an area I had been tipped off about. Started off the day by sending wife up one ridge and myself and the dog climbing another. as I approached the bottom of the hill I found a fairly fresh dead buck that had shed both sides. It was pretty shredded by yotes. I climbed to the top of the ridge and spotted several deer below me including two pretty decent bucks. Not what I was wanting to see but that's life. We kept working humps, ridges, and basically any trail we could find.
We were pretty high on a hill checking some flats and I hear 'OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!!!' My wife had found her first shed and I had walked right by that sap sucker.
So we get over the excitement from that find and continue on. We were working a beautiful low lying bottom area and I caught a glimpse of a shed to my left. I took the pup over to check it out and he didn't care (I was hoping he would grab it as we have been working on his shed skills in the back yard). I snagged it up and did a little celebration dance and Sarah came running over to check it out. At about that time, I looked to my right and spotted another antler off of a different buck and snagged that guy too.
In the midst of all the excitement I hear Sarah start laughing and snag the match to the first one I had picked up...only a couple feet away. Can't believe I hadn't seen that one too!
We ended up with 4 freshy's and one old one. This has already been the best shed season of my life if we don't find any more. Keeping my fingers crossed we do though! We'll be back at it this weekend if not sooner!
Last Sunday was the first serious shed hunt of the season. I packed up the wife and the dog and we headed to an area I had been tipped off about. Started off the day by sending wife up one ridge and myself and the dog climbing another. as I approached the bottom of the hill I found a fairly fresh dead buck that had shed both sides. It was pretty shredded by yotes. I climbed to the top of the ridge and spotted several deer below me including two pretty decent bucks. Not what I was wanting to see but that's life. We kept working humps, ridges, and basically any trail we could find.
We were pretty high on a hill checking some flats and I hear 'OH MY GOSH, OH MY GOSH!!!' My wife had found her first shed and I had walked right by that sap sucker.
So we get over the excitement from that find and continue on. We were working a beautiful low lying bottom area and I caught a glimpse of a shed to my left. I took the pup over to check it out and he didn't care (I was hoping he would grab it as we have been working on his shed skills in the back yard). I snagged it up and did a little celebration dance and Sarah came running over to check it out. At about that time, I looked to my right and spotted another antler off of a different buck and snagged that guy too.
In the midst of all the excitement I hear Sarah start laughing and snag the match to the first one I had picked up...only a couple feet away. Can't believe I hadn't seen that one too!
We ended up with 4 freshy's and one old one. This has already been the best shed season of my life if we don't find any more. Keeping my fingers crossed we do though! We'll be back at it this weekend if not sooner!
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