3 03, 2015

Shed Hunting w/Dogs: Know Your State Rules

2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00March 3rd, 2015|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

From Dan C. via Facebook: Just a heads up to my antler dog friends. Check your state’s regulations about running unleashed dogs on public lands during certain times of the year. In Minnesota (for example) it's illegal to have a dog off leash while on public land, as well as some state forest land, from January through April. This is a protection for winter-stressed deer. Just a heads up, hate to see anyone get in trouble doing something they enjoy. Good advice, thanks Dan.

23 02, 2015

Shed Antler Hunting: Check Bedding Areas

2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 23rd, 2015|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

When you’re out in the woods on a shed hunt, pick up a deer trail and follow it for a few hundred yards to a half-mile or more, until you come to a thick and obvious deer bedding area. In late winter that might be a brushy southern exposure that gets midday sunlight, or the east side of a grassy ridge or knoll where deer hunker out of a bitter northwest wind. Back in hunting season you would have stopped, tested the wind and worked the outer fringes of such a sanctuary so as not to spook any deer. But now, plow right in. Montana shed-hunting fanatic Dick Idol told me one time that he finds 60 percent of his [...]

17 02, 2015

Kansas: Massive Shed Antler!

2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 17th, 2015|BigDeer, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

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.

16 02, 2015

Shed Hunting: If You Find A Dead Buck

2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 16th, 2015|BigDeer, Predator Hunting, Shed Hunting|2 Comments

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 [...]

12 02, 2015

Illinois: Giant Shotgun Buck, 185 Inches!

2020-06-10T09:19:51-04:00February 12th, 2015|Big Deer Stories, BigDeer, Deer Management, Shed Hunting|3 Comments

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 [...]

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