Lighting Strikes Twice
What a crazy week! Every year during shed season I find myself asking the man upstairs for “just one big set”. It’s what I hope for every shed season! One good set to add to my bone pile and give me a legit target buck for the next season. One I have built an in-depth relationship with. I got my one good set last week when I unexpectedly picked up the Short Tined Ten. That was good! I was happy!
Then last night I went for a quick 4 wheeler ride. It honestly started with just wanting to get my dog, Booner, some exercise. The 4-wheeler ride led to a little arrowhead hunting then before heading home a quick shed hunt. I thought I should ride the corn stubble field off real fast (in a grid style) and just make sure The Big Eights antlers weren’t just lying out in the open. I knew if they were; they would be sun bleached and should stick out like a swore thumb. The cornfield is about 60 acres and by making a pass every 40 yards (running perpendicular or looking down the corn rows) I was ¾ of the way done after only 10 minutes when BAMMM!
I jumped off the 4wheeler in excitement, as I knew I had just found a buck I was targeting the final weeks of the Ohio late season. I snapped a couple pictures and snagged this video. Antler number 2 wasn’t any where in sight but I hoped I could locate it. From my experience, mature bucks typically drop both antler close. I don’t know if it’s because they know the shed hunting process and purposely knock the second antler off or if it bothers them Either way, I have had great success matching up larger antlers.
I jumped back on the 4 wheeler, marked the location where antler #1 was found, and continued my grid. 50-70 yards towards the closet field edge, I rode up on antler #2 the match! I again excitedly jumped off the quad, snagged a couple pictures and captured another video!
I just can’t believe it! A month ago I was dejected! I called it quits and said my shed season was over. I then proceeded to stumble onto two great sets and end the shed season with hands down my best shed season EVER!
Looking back it’s amazing because I walked several miles this year looking for these sheds! I knew they were there but just couldn’t come up with them. And in both cases (SST and The Big Eight), I walked with in 10-20 yards of where I ended up finding both sheds. I don’t know if in either case the antlers were there (on those respective days) but I was there, and seemingly just missed the sheds. It just goes to show how close you can be but not get lucky. In this case though, Lightening strikes twice and I’m so thankful!
-BigDumbF***#2
What a crazy week! Every year during shed season I find myself asking the man upstairs for “just one big set”. It’s what I hope for every shed season! One good set to add to my bone pile and give me a legit target buck for the next season. One I have built an in-depth relationship with. I got my one good set last week when I unexpectedly picked up the Short Tined Ten. That was good! I was happy!
Then last night I went for a quick 4 wheeler ride. It honestly started with just wanting to get my dog, Booner, some exercise. The 4-wheeler ride led to a little arrowhead hunting then before heading home a quick shed hunt. I thought I should ride the corn stubble field off real fast (in a grid style) and just make sure The Big Eights antlers weren’t just lying out in the open. I knew if they were; they would be sun bleached and should stick out like a swore thumb. The cornfield is about 60 acres and by making a pass every 40 yards (running perpendicular or looking down the corn rows) I was ¾ of the way done after only 10 minutes when BAMMM!
I jumped off the 4wheeler in excitement, as I knew I had just found a buck I was targeting the final weeks of the Ohio late season. I snapped a couple pictures and snagged this video. Antler number 2 wasn’t any where in sight but I hoped I could locate it. From my experience, mature bucks typically drop both antler close. I don’t know if it’s because they know the shed hunting process and purposely knock the second antler off or if it bothers them Either way, I have had great success matching up larger antlers.
I jumped back on the 4 wheeler, marked the location where antler #1 was found, and continued my grid. 50-70 yards towards the closet field edge, I rode up on antler #2 the match! I again excitedly jumped off the quad, snagged a couple pictures and captured another video!
I just can’t believe it! A month ago I was dejected! I called it quits and said my shed season was over. I then proceeded to stumble onto two great sets and end the shed season with hands down my best shed season EVER!
Looking back it’s amazing because I walked several miles this year looking for these sheds! I knew they were there but just couldn’t come up with them. And in both cases (SST and The Big Eight), I walked with in 10-20 yards of where I ended up finding both sheds. I don’t know if in either case the antlers were there (on those respective days) but I was there, and seemingly just missed the sheds. It just goes to show how close you can be but not get lucky. In this case though, Lightening strikes twice and I’m so thankful!
-BigDumbF***#2
