Shed Hunting....w/PICS

norcalblacktail

norcalblacktail

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Been going out alot these past few months looking for sheds. Went out last week and took a walk in a spot I hadnt been to in a while and was out for only 3 hours and found 11 sheds including the skull. I know you guys like pics as much as I do so here you go...

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Some rubs...
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Can you see the deer?
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I know who has been sleeping here...
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Awesome pics! I like the one with the deer in it. Beautiful area you are in, just across the bay from me!:)
Are there hunting areas in that area, or are the deer just in a non hunting area? Is this private property, or a wilderness area or park?
 
stingray4540 said:
Awesome pics! I like the one with the deer in it. Beautiful area you are in, just across the bay from me!:)
Are there hunting areas in that area, or are the deer just in a non hunting area? Is this private property, or a wilderness area or park?
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There are areas to hunt but only on private property. These pics are in a non hunting area.
 
Those are spike buck sheds back East, least they are around my place. Some city slickers were nosing around a few months back and I found out the other day why. One of them had wounded a deer and then could'nt track it worth a dammmm. I'm sitting in my office looking out the window and there limps a nice healthy deer 20 ft from my window. I say healthy, because without his shoulder being winged he would be studding this year. So i grab my 30-30 and head out to put it out of it's misery. No tag!! Ok, I call NJ F&G/DEP they yank my chain for half an hour about having one of 'their people' come out to do the deed. I wait another half hour and a local cop shows, nice guy, hunter. We locate the deer resting, but before he can shoot it this deer takes off like the wind. He asks me, "Was THAt the deer?", to which I reply, "THAT was the fastest 3 legged deer I've ever seen in my life!" It was in the next county and I'm still looking for it daily. Shoulder wound looked healed, but that poor deer was limpin' like a Patriots linebacker after the SB!
 
great pics man... that is a lot of sheds for one day...:thumbup: feel free to send some north....:D
 
Great post, I have never heard of shed hunting before - In fact I never realized deer shed their antlers like that every year! Maybe I'll go out this weekend and look for some here in Maryland. Do they shed them around this time of the year or something?
 
1Tracker said:
Those are spike buck sheds back East, least they are around my place.
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Aw come on I know how you east coast boys count your points. These would all be either 6 point or 8 point deer to whitetail hunters. Here in the West these are all called forks and 3x3s.

This is a spike buck....
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norcalblacktail said:
Aw come on I know how you east coast boys count your points. These would all be either 6 point or 8 point deer to whitetail hunters. Here in the West these are all called forks and 3x3s.

This is a spike buck....
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his ears are almost bigger than his antlers..:o
 
Interesting that all but one was a right side antler. Are there any public hunting areas in CA?
 
Nice. I'd love to go out and find some free handles!!!
 
11 sheds! You rock:thumbup:

My wife is the shed finder at our house. There is this field in the woods where apparently the bucks go to lose their horns because there are rubs there after the rut is over. Last year she found 4 in about a 25 yard area including a matched set!

But we've never found 11! Good hunting or great area!

I think here they haven't lost them yet here cause I saw a buck with horns about a week ago. But they are usually losing them here around this time!:thumbup:
 
hlee said:
Interesting that all but one was a right side antler. Are there any public hunting areas in CA?
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Yes, there are lots of public hunting areas in California. Not all of California looks like L.A. or S.F. There is probably more public hunting land in California, than there is land in Connecticut.

P.S. MntFolk Mike: If woodside is were I think it is, he would have to send them south to get to you, but maybe there is another woodside down south?

ETA: I just realized that my last sentence before the P.S. sounded a little like I was being an a$$hole, I wasn't trying to, just trying to point out that California is a very large state, and that there are only a couple of large cities here. There are a lot of farms(more citris than Florida), and a lot of mountains here. A short drive, even from the city, will leave you in the middle of nowhere.
 
hlee said:
Interesting that all but one was a right side antler. Are there any public hunting areas in CA?
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There are 19 National Forests that are accessible to the public to hunt. Tons of Game Refuges and all kinds of BLM land that is accesible to hunt.

CA in my opinion is one of the top 10 places to hunt in the world. We have everything.
 
stingray4540 said:
Yes, there are lots of public hunting areas in California. Not all of California looks like L.A. or S.F. There is probably more public hunting land in California, than there is land in Connecticut.

ETA: I just realized that my last sentence before the P.S. sounded a little like I was being an a$$hole, I wasn't trying to, just trying to point out that California is a very large state, and that there are only a couple of large cities here. There are a lot of farms(more citris than Florida), and a lot of mountains here. A short drive, even from the city, will leave you in the middle of nowhere.
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Yeah I think there is a big misconception about CA. We arent all gun hating liberals. There is more wilderness in CA than I could explore in a lifetime. There are towns in CA that I regularly go to that are so remote they have their own accents.


Heres some stats I stumbled on a while back...

"What states have the most hunters and anglers? Texas is No. 1 (2.6 million), Florida No. 2 (two million), California No. 3 (1.7 million), Ohio No. 4 (1.48 million) and Pennsylvania No. 5 (1.41 million).

What states are the big spenders? Texas is No. 1 ($6.6 billion), Florida No.2 ($4.8 billion), California No. 3 ($3.6 billion), Pennsylvania No. 4 ($3.5 billion) and Minnesota No. 5 ($3.4 billion)."

California's 43 million acres of public land enfold some of the most remarkable diversity in America: Mt. Whitney, highest point in the lower 48 states, Death Valley National Park, the lowest. Bristlecone Pines are the oldest living trees, redwoods the tallest. Amid all this are 14 million acres of protected wilderness and more to come."
 
mtnfolk mike said:
his ears are almost bigger than his antlers..:o
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That is what I would call an 11 pointer. Lol. Here in MD we get all knids of crazy racks. Where I hunted in the western part of the state last fall, people will shoot anything with balls. On the other hand, a year and a half ago, some guy named Crutchfield shot a monster in Charles County which had 26 scorable points and is the highest scoring deer ever taken on the eastern seaboard. Trouble is they are way overpopulated in many suburban areas but hard to find in the areas where you can harvest em'. I drove three hours to spend a day in the deer woods during early muzzleloader season and I didn't see a thing only to have to slam on my brakes about a hundred feet from my driveway to avoid slamming into three of them on my way home. Too bad populations are mismanaged like that. Average age of a buck harvested in this state is only 1&1/2 years but I routinely see 6 and 8 and even bigger bucks running around my neighborhood. BTW, nice sheds. -DT
 
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