Saw this on my Twitter @mikehanback: Fresh set of sheds from Kansas, insane mass! Yes, incredible mass, especially if these are from a wild deer! How many of you are shed-hunting...how many have you found? Send me your shed pictures and stories to post.
Shed hunters across America are starting to roam the woods. In addition to finding antlers, a few of you will find deer that died within the last several months from natural causes or were shot and lost by hunters last season. Ken found this first one in VA the other day. Kelly found this one in South Dakota last month. This last carcass, found by one of the Drury team members, somewhere in the Midwest, is mysterious. They had spotted this buck alive and well on January 9, 2015, but found his remains just weeks later. How had the deer died—natural causes, coyotes, or maybe poached? Deer skulls/racks are sad finds, but they make good shed-hunting trophies if you know [...]
Hey Mike: I love checking out your site and reading about big bucks. You featured my brother, Daniel, and I couple of years back when we teamed up on a 176-inch 13-point buck during the Illinois shotgun season. I've got another story for you from the first Illinois gun season 2014 in Adams County. We had been watching this buck for 4 years. The first picture we ever got of him, we guessed him to be a 3.5-year-old 10-pointer. The next year he put on some inches and had long G-2s and G-3s but short G-4s. We had never actually seen this buck in the woods, and we hadn’t gotten any hard-horn pictures of him. In 2013 the buck [...]
Mike: I watch your show all the time, and just wanted to thank you for the information on deer hunting. Last year I watched the episode “10 things to Know about the Whitetail Rut.” Well, I took your advice about hunting on November 8th, and had the most activity I've ever experienced in the deer woods! I hunted every day from November 8th to the 11th 2014. I grunted, rattled and used the bleat can....and I shot the BIGGEST deer of my life! I shot him from a ground blind at 28 yards with my Hoyt Faktor 30.—Thanks and God bless, Kenny Kyte from southern Indiana PS: I've already scheduled my vacation for this time of year next deer season. [...]
Mike: A friend and I are obsessed w/shed hunting in Wisconsin and Minnesota. One year we found 2 sets that score 150+ and another half that came from a buck that would have been in the 170 to 180 range. These 5 sheds were found in a straight line from one another heading north to south from a cedar swamp to a ridge/valley habitat. We looked for days, but there was no sign of smaller bucks in the area. The large sheds we found were all distinctively similar--they look like grandfather, father, son and so on, with high brow tines and G2s and impressive main beams. This is probably due to genes in the area, but the odd thing [...]