Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
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Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Getting a thread going here to take you guys on the post season scouting trips and shed antler hunts I'll be going on. Feel free to join in with yours too! Ill also be preparing tree stand placements and trimming, blind building and the such like, that I did NOT get accomplished last year. I will be fine tuning most of the areas but a few new ones are bound to surface.... let it begin!
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season
Went into the spot and hunted around for sheds for a while but dissapointingly we did not score any. Maybe next week.
I did indeed like the tree I picked for adjusting position. The area has great potential and from what I've learned over the last couple years I should be smack on. I've had good deer experiences here 2 and 3 years ago but I could tell I was on the fringe. Time to get more aggressive and punch into the edge of the core area. Fortunately I can take advantage of a ridge top that the sides angle together to make a point, which all the deer flood with use getting on and off the ridge.
I did indeed like the tree I picked for adjusting position. The area has great potential and from what I've learned over the last couple years I should be smack on. I've had good deer experiences here 2 and 3 years ago but I could tell I was on the fringe. Time to get more aggressive and punch into the edge of the core area. Fortunately I can take advantage of a ridge top that the sides angle together to make a point, which all the deer flood with use getting on and off the ridge.
The element of surprise can never be replaced by persistence.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Looking east on the travel area you can see the ridge top drop off about mid pic...
Standing on the same travel area without moving looking west to see the ridge dropping off on that side about mid pic where the leaf litter ends, so you can imagine the narrow feature of the funnel...
Looking behind back at the ever widening ridge top it's extremely thick for almost 100 yards then turns to a more clean looking mature deciduous tree forest with increasing oaks and other browes feed rather then cedar/hedge/brush mix pictured...
Looking toward the ridge point end, where just below the trails downward descent, is a protected and proven bedding, beginning some 60 yards from my tree position...
Standing on the same travel area without moving looking west to see the ridge dropping off on that side about mid pic where the leaf litter ends, so you can imagine the narrow feature of the funnel...
Looking behind back at the ever widening ridge top it's extremely thick for almost 100 yards then turns to a more clean looking mature deciduous tree forest with increasing oaks and other browes feed rather then cedar/hedge/brush mix pictured...
Looking toward the ridge point end, where just below the trails downward descent, is a protected and proven bedding, beginning some 60 yards from my tree position...
The element of surprise can never be replaced by persistence.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
For me....on really good spots, the best advantage positionally always ends up in a challenge to find a tree that will work....often leaving me settling for a tree much less perfect for a myriad of reasons, then I'd like. This time is no different...but I'd rather have a sub par tree in a great spot then the best tree ever in a mediocre spot. I had no choice bit to use what I got to work with and just "make lemonade". So I chose this cedar some 12 yards from the travel, which is bigger then it seems if you notice my pole saw and hand saw sheath in orange in lower left. I begun the task of trimming and got decent headway which will show next time....
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
At least it looks like a nice day there.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Yeah we lost all our snow a couple days ago. Got some forecasted tonight. It was a balmy 15f when I was out.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Went back out this afternoon and hiked through some good deer country hoping to find sheds, but no such luck. I seen several interesting things to apply to hunting the area but outside of nice scenery nothing really stuck out for any photographs.....until I was leaving at Sun set.... I found the pink arch interesting.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Nice picture.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
Good stuff, I never have had success finding sheds, never tried a lot though. Good to have a reason to get out.
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Re: Antler sheds and scouting preps for 2018 deer season.
A lot of sheds can be found in back yards, Tony.Carpdaddy wrote:Good stuff, I never have had success finding sheds, never tried a lot though. Good to have a reason to get out.
Just sayin'...
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