not always true!!! I've found matching sheds 1 and 1/2 miles apart. and sometimes they are side by side. So far this year I've collected 19 sheds and only 3 matching sets!

 

no, not always true... your right, but that is one reason why... not all deer do that thought.

 

I was speaking to a friend a few days ago and he saw a buck that STILL has his antlers. April!!!

 

Around here in Mn they start shedding aroun the en of January and some I have seen still had one antler in March. Generally deer will winter in the same location and that is why once you find a nice rack keep looking in the same general area year after year unless he gets shot. This is how some people follow the growth of bucks.

 

Not all deer shed they horns in jan. in south dakota this year we seen one of the bigger bucks we have on our farm still had his horns in middle to end of march( we have him on film with our game camera in march). But most of them shed in late jan. early Feb. I tend to find more sheds on our ranch in western south dakota where there is more grass then crp and switch grass like aournd eastern south dakota on our farm.

 

I found 27 sheds this year and sdf7rider is right. Some of the deer kept their antlers untill the end of March! I found all mine in the South East corner of the state. Only 5 matching sets though, a couple of the sheds would have scored 145" to 165" depending on the spread. I found a lot of smaller ones this year. I have a neighbor that could fill a one stall garage to the roof with them, he has a few of them that score over 200" B&C. In my profile I have a couple of pics of deer that I shot in the past.

 

Those are a couple of nice Bucks!!! We have a couple like that walking around were I hunt and last year one of them dodged a bullet from my brothers 30-06. Well actually he just flat out missed.

 

camoman,

Very Nice Photos[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] AlaskaBoy.

 

We were out looking but haven't found anything yet. Probably too late.

 

my dad found a pair 4x4 this weekend and one side of a 4 and a side of a 5 and then last years shed that was a 4 and then a 5 point elk shed. so they are still out there. SDF7