Sheds and dead’s 2023

[Gator]

Found my first shed of 2023 just minutes ago

Now where is his daddy???

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[Holt]

One of the bucks I was chasing found dead. Thought he was a great 3 1/2 year old that I was really hoping he make it one more year. Last day I saw him was October 30. My guess he got shot around early November.

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[Arrowsquirrel]

Had a good day shed hunting today. The big 9 is a buck I passed 3 times this last year and a couple times the year before. Can't wait to see what he turns into next year

 

[Pic1]

Some nice finds. A suggestion to post the state with your finds to give others better idea of what areas are dropping. Just a nice to know.

Spent ~6hrs between last Saturday and Sunday came up empty handed. Starting to think the 3 i picked up in Dec was first time out luck and prob still early yet where I am. Finding concentrations of bedding, tracks sign but no bone.

 

[Arrowsquirrel]

I'm from Kansas. I knew he had dropped from trail cameras. Saw 4 small bucks today that still had antlers.

 

[AttackMode]

I killed this buck Nov 3 and just recently found his shed from last year about 1/4 mile away. Also found a nice matched set of a buck I hope to hunt next year.

 

[OspreyZB]

I've got 30+ miles logged scouting since February 1st and have only found 1 old one so far. Most are still holding here now, but that won't be the case for much longer. I'll really start looking for them in about a week.

On January 31st I was in a tree, watching a bachelor group of 3 bucks. The biggest one, a 3.5+ year old 6 point, wanted his antlers off, bad. He kept violently shaking his head, pushing his antlers into his own body, and trying to coax the other bucks into sparring with him. I thought for sure I was going to watch his antlers fall off his head, but he walked out of sight with both of them still attached.

 

[BTaylor]

I killed this buck Nov 3 and just recently found his shed from last year about 1/4 mile away. Also found a nice matched set of a buck I hope to hunt next year.

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Had a similar thing happen last year. When we were trailing the buck I shot last year, we picked up a shed in the blood trail from the previous year. When we found my buck, we realized it was from the same deer.

 

[Holt]

Picked up my first fresh one of the year. Also turned up a good deadhead. 11 pt.

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[MattMan81]

Walked a piece of public the other day in S. Mi. Kicked up 3 small bucks. All holding antlers.

 

[GreginPA]

This count?

 

[Mitchellfarmer1982]

Shed it's whole head......

 

[ketch22]

For whatever reason the site won’t let me upload pics right now, but I’m in PA, I took the kids pit shed hunting yesterday and we pulled a camera card, all the bucks are still holding antlers. I saw the one I didn’t get this year and a bruiser I hadn’t seen before

 

[Jammintree]

For whatever reason the site won’t let me upload pics right now, but I’m in PA, I took the kids pit shed hunting yesterday and we pulled a camera card, all the bucks are still holding antlers. I saw the one I didn’t get this year and a bruiser I hadn’t seen before

Did your hunting area have acorns this year?

 

[ketch22]

Did your hunting area have acorns this year?

Not that I’ve seen but I did hunt the oaks, I hunted a pinch point they use a lot.

 

[Pic1]

Put in ~7 hrs last couple days with nothing to show but this coyote skull today. About 250yds from where I winged one with an arrow last year but never found. Saw another coyote 75yds from the skull. Going to give it a couple more weeks before I set out again.

 

[MattMan81]

Found this guy in the field. Couldn't really find a cause.

 

[woodsdog2]

Found the t-bone yesterday and this dead head today.

 

[NimbleTimbo]

Found a few...lol. Where deer go to die...

 

[thedutchtouch]

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Found a few...lol. Where deer go to die...

This some kinda roadkill DOT dump site? What's going on here?