Excerpt from Giant Whitetails, which I co-authored with Mark and Terry some years ago. Many people consider this to be one of the most informative books ever published on hunting mature whitetail books. I agree, but then I'm biased. Terry’s words on sheds: Mark and I have become almost as fanatical about hunting sheds as we are about observing and scouting deer. We’ve learned that when you put the two tactics together, you can really pin down the core areas and specific movements of mature bucks. We start looking for sheds as soon as the snow melts in late winter. Here in the Midwest, most bucks cast their antlers from the first week of February to the second week of [...]

We’ve been tracking our friend Kelly’s shed hunting for weeks, here’s his latest field report: Mike: Missed one weekend because of a bought with vertigo, but made up for it this past weekend. Only walked on Saturday as to not overdo it and had my personal best day--picked 41 antlers! Three matched sets, and one goofy antler, my favorite. I did match 5 other sets when I got home against antlers I had found earlier this year. The one antler on the hood of the truck scores in the mid 70s, very heavy, we searched the area for 2 hours trying to match it, with no luck. Loved your last post of the massive Canadian antler. My dream is to [...]

This time of year it is always fun to open my social media on Monday morning and see what bone was found over the weekend: Big Game Illustrated posted these monster sheds that Quinten found in northern Saskatchewan. Like many racks there, the bulk of last summer's growth went into that  incredible mass on a 7x7 frame. The number of deer overall, and the number of giant bucks roaming the bush, are down the last 5 years, but see why I love hunting up there so? The potential of a world-class buck like this showing up is why I keep going back during the tough years. Thanks to Shedheads for tagging me with this one: This photo is fuzzy but [...]