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December 27th, 2019, 07:57 PM #1
Deer Sheds
I intend to search for sheds this year, I'd like some material for walking stick handles. I've never hunted them before, any hints appreciated.
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December 27th, 2019, 08:21 PM #2
Re: Deer Sheds
Valley forge park... good place to start
Some use a dogs to find them. Following trails bucks use doesnt always pan out. Its more luck then skill, and some drop them now and others might hold a month or two.
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December 27th, 2019, 09:23 PM #3Grand Member
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Re: Deer Sheds
I have made a collector corner some years. Drive three lengths of angle iron into the ground so it sticks up 3’ above ground. These should be in a triangle. Connect the three with heavy chicken wire, or chain link fence. That will form the corner. Bait the inside of the corner with anything deer like to eat. Deer will eat and get an antler stuck. If the antler is ready, it will fall off. If not, the buck will shake free and come back to eat again in a day or two. Rinse, wash, repeat. Be sure to check it every couple of days or the forest creatures will collect the sheds and eat them before you get back.
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December 27th, 2019, 10:48 PM #4
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December 28th, 2019, 12:10 AM #5Senior Member
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Re: Deer Sheds
Walk fence lines, if an antler is ready to fall it may be where the buck landed on the other side.
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December 28th, 2019, 07:53 PM #6Super Member
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I never found a shed, but almost every year I find bone piles with antlered skulls. If in an area with no squirrels, they are sometimes complete. This year I found a 6 point that had been gnawed on. Last year a spike that was not touched, but appeared quite old. One year I found about half of a very large antler that was snapped off. I was walking across a cut wheat field and saw a turfed up circle about 15 feet across where two bucks had gone at it. Amazing what you find if you keep your eyes open.
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January 12th, 2020, 12:10 AM #10
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I have a natural area with fallen trees and branches 50 or 60 yds behind the house, today there were 2 bucks and 7 does milling around. I put a salt lick back there, we'll see what happens. Too early for supplemental food, and reading about CWD makes me not want to put any out.
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