Just a little something I was thinking about yesterday.
I became aware of shed hunting in 1998 I believe….I was 17 years old. It started with my beagle dog Spike dragging a small 2 point shed up to me when we cut firewood. I started looking for them that year but never found one. The very next year I found my first shed. It was a very good antler that I matched up later that day with my good friend Jeremy. That set scored 145 as a basic 8 with small kicker. I kept those antlers for a decade and finally gave them to Jeremy as a Christmas gift. They are not pictured below but what is……..is a picture of all the good sets and couple big singles I have found (actually 2 of those sets were found by a friend of mine but were at my farms and while we looking for that particular deer.) I have faith I would have found them If I would have been alone but shed hunting with a buddy is so much more fun. It's not much for 17 years of shed hunting IMO! It just proves how hard they are to find.
So anyway, Every shed season I walk a lot of miles and just ask the man upstairs for "just one good set". Of course I would also like to break my personal best of 72". At any rate... I went for a quick walk yesterday and found myself again saying this very thing "just one good set". I didn't find any sheds but I wonder what the next two months will hold for me? Will i find that one big set….I hope so. Also, good luck to all the other shed hunters!
I became aware of shed hunting in 1998 I believe….I was 17 years old. It started with my beagle dog Spike dragging a small 2 point shed up to me when we cut firewood. I started looking for them that year but never found one. The very next year I found my first shed. It was a very good antler that I matched up later that day with my good friend Jeremy. That set scored 145 as a basic 8 with small kicker. I kept those antlers for a decade and finally gave them to Jeremy as a Christmas gift. They are not pictured below but what is……..is a picture of all the good sets and couple big singles I have found (actually 2 of those sets were found by a friend of mine but were at my farms and while we looking for that particular deer.) I have faith I would have found them If I would have been alone but shed hunting with a buddy is so much more fun. It's not much for 17 years of shed hunting IMO! It just proves how hard they are to find.
So anyway, Every shed season I walk a lot of miles and just ask the man upstairs for "just one good set". Of course I would also like to break my personal best of 72". At any rate... I went for a quick walk yesterday and found myself again saying this very thing "just one good set". I didn't find any sheds but I wonder what the next two months will hold for me? Will i find that one big set….I hope so. Also, good luck to all the other shed hunters!
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