Sheds or Beds?
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- elk yinzer
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Re: Sheds or Beds?
Beds all the way. Personally I never understood the shed hunting deal. Too slow, staring at the ground for hours, no thanks. I stumble into one or two a year but never look for them.
Related, let me take this opportunity to vent about instagram/social media for a moment. Of which I waste very little time on anymore, but once upon a time the annual shed season really annoyed me. Whom the heck cares if you find sheds and why are there so many hunters that feel the need to post them? One or two shed posts, congrats, you have annoyed me. Three strikes and you're out I am unfollowing you. Rant over.
Related, let me take this opportunity to vent about instagram/social media for a moment. Of which I waste very little time on anymore, but once upon a time the annual shed season really annoyed me. Whom the heck cares if you find sheds and why are there so many hunters that feel the need to post them? One or two shed posts, congrats, you have annoyed me. Three strikes and you're out I am unfollowing you. Rant over.
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elk yinzer wrote:Beds all the way. Personally I never understood the shed hunting deal. Too slow, staring at the ground for hours, no thanks. I stumble into one or two a year but never look for them.
Related, let me take this opportunity to vent about instagram/social media for a moment. Of which I waste very little time on anymore, but once upon a time the annual shed season really annoyed me. Whom the heck cares if you find sheds and why are there so many hunters that feel the need to post them? One or two shed posts, congrats, you have annoyed me. Three strikes and you're out I am unfollowing you. Rant over.
Hahahah God bless you. I couldn't agree more.
BEDS....even if all I can find right now are moose beds haha
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Beds for me. I find more deadheads than sheds....might be the area's I tend to scout. Some years after miles and miles of scouting I'm convinced bucks don't actually shed.
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I love to shed hunt and look for beds. This spring I'll be devoting half my time to each. Can't explain it but there's nothing like laying eyes on a 60 + inch antler for the first time on heavily hunted public.
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I look for both. If I find one - good chances the other will be close by.
So far this season I've found 2 old and chewed sheds.
I've yet to find my first clean fresh shed.
Here in the east the get chewed up really quick - by squirrels and mice I assume.
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So far this season I've found 2 old and chewed sheds.
I've yet to find my first clean fresh shed.
Here in the east the get chewed up really quick - by squirrels and mice I assume.
[ BTW, first post on Hunting Beast! ]
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Found my first decent 8pt shed. It was awesome! Not as good as a hunt and kill, but definitely special. I have spent dozens of hours this off season scouting for beds on new properties and no sheds until yesterday. It is definitely difficult to both stare at the ground for sheds and look for subtle deer sign. So based on that I would rank beds over sheds.
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Stanley wrote:Sheds tell me exactly what a buck was wearing and is probably alive. Beds tell me where a buck was bedding. May not be alive and often aren't. Beds in the areas of sheds is a good thing.
More wise words by Stanley.
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I've split my scouting and shed looking about 50/50 this spring, and from the sheds I've found I know what caliber of bucks I might be dealing with this fall in those general areas.
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Both for me
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I’m more about finding beds and sign from the fall now. Seeing a big velvet pre season in my hunting area or seeing one in season is better than a shed. You don’t know where the shed buck will end up late summer early fall unless you have history with him.Could be miles away
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I take my shed dog with me when I scout he hunts for sheds I hunt for beds
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Re: Sheds or Beds?
sheds in the spring, Beds right now.
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