Well we have been long overdue for a new post. We've all been out pounding the hills and now we have a slight pause between the early deer hunts and the late elk and late deer season so now is a good time to catch up.
Soooooo........, if we're not hunting or scouting, we're probably looking for sheds. This is always a favorite time of the season for us. I remember when I used to be off work for the winter season and my brother and I would literally walk from sun up to sun down for days on end picking up sheds. Now, I'm a weekend warrior but I managed to do alright this year anyways. My boys like hiking the woods with us and always bring good luck, along with a lot of snacks, and they are now hooked and like to pick up any bones they find in the woods, be it hip bones, rib cages, or sheds. I've always said I like counting by two when looking for horns and this year was no exception as we picked up 14 sets along with some dynamite singles. We were able to relocate some bulls that we found sheds off of during the early season scouting this year. Its quite interesting to see what bulls made it through the hunts and how they compare to years past, very educational and really helps to understand the bull's year round habits. Although we continued to pick sheds up through the past several hunts, I have not consolidated all of those pics yet but here are a few favorite photos from this shed season.
We hoped the bull that dropped this shed last year would put some length on his beam but that was not to be. Still an awesome bull. His third was 23" last year but looked to be about 20" this year.
Here another bull that we watched this year and his sheds we found.
Does anyone want to take a guess at what we'll be doing next Spring???
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