More Cool Info on my 2017 Archery Buck
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More Cool Info on my 2017 Archery Buck
After I kill a buck, I always go back and take a look at the entire situation to get an understanding of how that deer was living in that area. I had some time over the past few days so I spent many hours pounding the bedding area and trying to make sense of it. Learned a lot of cool stuff. During the first 20 minutes, I quickly stumbled upon my 2017 bucks 2016 shed. I was pretty excited to have it. After bringing it home I kept thinking about how cool it would be to have the other half. So a few days later I went back out and stuck my foot through some ice right away. I ended up walking from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. with a wet foot pretty much the entire time. I've learned that if your walking with a wet foot, you just need to keep walking. The wet water in the boot warms up and becomes an extension of your body Anyhow, right around noon when I realized I wast going to find it, I poked through one last area and BAM! There it was right in a bed. The first one was on a travel route. This is probably the most boring story ever posted up on the beast, but I'm pretty excited. My fiance joked and asked me if I was gonna sleep with them... My response was, "if having them on my nightstand means sleeping with them, then yes."
These sheds are from when he was what I believed to be 4.5. Killed him at 5.5
Told you she was excited... that's sarcasm btw
This year when I killed him
2016 showing off the sheds I picked up.
These sheds are from when he was what I believed to be 4.5. Killed him at 5.5
Told you she was excited... that's sarcasm btw
This year when I killed him
2016 showing off the sheds I picked up.
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That is pretty darn cool TC!
The odds of finding them both (in a marsh) from last year's shed have to be astronomical. Well done.
I'd sleep with them too
The odds of finding them both (in a marsh) from last year's shed have to be astronomical. Well done.
I'd sleep with them too
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Man i was getting sick of you sending me pics of you finding sheds every 10 minutes last weekend you were on a roll and the best thing you can do is keep walking! Awesome finds!
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very cool indeed I love stuff like this thank you for sharing! so how close where the sheds to where you killed him the following year? was he using the same beds? what kind of view did he have from his bedroom? was he following any consistent travel patterns? how far apart were his sheds?
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I’ve so far spent about 15 hours looking for the other half of one of my target bucks. I practically tripped over the one side . The other one who knows. I’d be just as stoked as you are. Your fiancé doesn’t understand now and definitely won’t understand when she’s your wife.
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Very cool. You killed a great buck, found his previous yrs sheds and got a great scout in. Well done.
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I get it man! I would be pretty jacked up as well. I found my target buck left side and I know I was thrilled!
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Awesome find TC
Nice that the shed didn't get chewed up laying around so long!
Nice that the shed didn't get chewed up laying around so long!
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Very cool!
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Peeps22 wrote:Man i was getting sick of you sending me pics of you finding sheds every 10 minutes last weekend you were on a roll and the best thing you can do is keep walking! Awesome finds!
shhhhhh.... never happened To be continued...
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ghoasthunter wrote:very cool indeed I love stuff like this thank you for sharing! so how close where the sheds to where you killed him the following year? was he using the same beds? what kind of view did he have from his bedroom? was he following any consistent travel patterns? how far apart were his sheds?
Appreciate it! I have to be somewhat deceptive and put up a little bit of a smoke screen regarding my descriptions around this stuff to mislead the local super sniffers, but Ill try to explain the best I can.
The spot that this buck lived received different types of pressure at different times of the year. Being an older buck and calling this area home, I think he knew exactly how to navigate based on pressure. When the pressure was high, and there was a lot of commotion from vehicles, loggers, hikers, duck hunters, things of that nature, he would dip down into some bedding that was very thick and nasty. It was your typical cattail bedding, but from the bed, he was in a very good spot to listen and hear all of the commotion in his secondary bedding. I will call the area that I found the sheds "secondary bedding." I should have taken pics of his sign from the other day in the primary bedding, but it was very obvious that it was his old sign in the cattails. When the pressure would become lighter he would move to the edge of the hardwoods and swamp. There were multiple spots on the edge of the hardwood island (secondary bedding) that I can tell make for very good beds when the pressure is light. The deer can sit right in these beds on the edge of the hardwoods and see any human pressure happening before any human pressure can see them. If there is intrusion, the deer can easily slip into swamp and disappear unseen. During the time of the year when this buck shed these antlers, I think its safe to say that pressure was very low which is why they were dropped on non swamp ground. I don't think he went in the swamp much when pressure was low unless he needed to escape. So I'm glad that I went the second day to find the second shed, because it gave away the concept of the secondary bedding and put a few more pieces of the puzzle together. I would have to say that the sheds were about 150 yards apart. The first shed I picked up was either dropped on his way to crop fields or dropped browsing. Hard to say. I ended up killing him within 100ish yards of where the shed in the bed was laying. Its defiantly a possibility that he came out of this bed the night I shot him because it was out of my view.
If you go back and read my kill thread and story, you may remember me saying that I did some scouting on my way in to try to figure out what he was doing. There is a major trail that all the hunters use to access this area, but I did not take this trail that day as I and any normal hunter would. I took the long way so that I could read sign and scout. I think this saved my tail big time, because I believe he was using one of the beds on the edge of the hardwoods. Had I taken the normal human path that day, he defiantly would have seen me if he was in the one bed where I found the second antler. I rewatched my kill video, and I don't see any muck or mud on his legs as if he had just come out of his cattail bedding area which is a big part of the reason that I come to this conclusion. I basically came through the swamp and went 15 yards onto dry ground and setup. This deer and no clue I was there because humans never enter the way I did. He was completely relaxed when he came in. I'm probably making it all sound way more complicated than it was, but there were a lot of small pieces that had to fall into place perfectly to make this all happen and it sure did. This buck just didn't make it to 5 years old by not having his ducks in a row.
There is another takeaway from finding his sheds that is really cool and provided to be a great learning experience. I got a photo of him last January of 2017 about 3 miles away in a corn field. I remember that it was one of the bigger snow storms and that it was the closest corn to where I killed him and picked up the sheds. At the time, when I got the photo, I was so confused. The photo just gave me one more reason to not want to waste my time hunting this deer because it didn't make sense that he was now three miles from where I normally had eyes on him. With hindsight now being 20/20, I can say that I now overcomplicated it in my head. I suppose that the buck just really needed food because of the snow, so he traveled for a little bit to get to the closest food that wasn't under snow. The snow must have melted and he retreated back to his bedding 3 miles away and dropped his sheds where I found him and killed him.
Pretty cool to be solving all these mystery's now and getting answers to the questions that once consumed me. I could type and talk about this stuff all night.
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Kokes wrote:Awesome find TC
Nice that the shed didn't get chewed up laying around so long!
Its weird where I live. Sheds last a long time without getting chewed on. I'm always surprised to see guys with them chewed in half. Must be less rodents around here.
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Bigburner wrote:I’ve so far spent about 15 hours looking for the other half of one of my target bucks. I practically tripped over the one side . The other one who knows. I’d be just as stoked as you are. Your fiancé doesn’t understand now and definitely won’t understand when she’s your wife.
Shes a great gal and likes to see me happy, so I make sure to smile real big when I hold them. She gets the hint
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