Thoughts on looking for sheds in the North.:

Living in the north does have some advantages. When the snow is FINALLY gone, all of the vegetation and leaves from the past fall are flattened tight to the ground.At this time, you can clearly see the trails the deer used all winter. The amount of deer droppings in the trails gives a good indication of the amount of use of each trail. If you get out before the new vegetation starts to pop up, any dropped antlers are just kinda laying on top of the flattened vegetation, most times in the trails. There is still aa lot of ground between antlers in most of our country, just due to the fact few bucks survive to drop the antlers.



Went out for the first time today. No new drops, but did find some unique things-



One old dropped /chewed on antler



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And a bone pile from past years



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And one slightly dead doe, unrecovered from the late archery season. Ths is a small area of 12-13 acres of very heavy cover with a lot of year round deer use.



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Good info Captiveone. Nice finds, always a shame to see an unrecovered kill.

Time to start looking ?

we have ticks already. I hate those things.

Cant wait to get up there and start looking and starting plots!

finds Pete. I am headed up to my land for the day on Sunday to do a little shed hunting and checking the cams.

Yep, just when you think it's time to pull the plug on 'Ol Man winter in Minnesota, he laughs at ya. It didn't snow all winter til March.

Got cold and windy today and this is outside my door right now

Only supposed to get a couple inches this time.

Just think trophy, all that white stuff may help get Lake Superior back close to normal.

Yep, she's down a bit but I think we're going to need a LOT more. lol Just so it doesn't mess up my steelhead fish'n!