Post by bigskyscott on Mar 9, 2007 22:09:49 GMT -5
I finally got to go for a walk this afternoon along the Jefferson River where I deer hunt. I was "bustin" Whitetails like rabbits back in the pine thicket . Couldn't walk a hundred yards all afternoon without deer flying out in front of me, beside me and behind me. More deer today than I've ever seen back there.
I must have spent two hours looking for shed antlers in the thicket and didn't find any. On my way back out, I walked over to the tree where I was sitting last deer season when I shot that fat little buck.
No further than 12 feet away from the tree I found this old shed! I didn't see it last fall when I was hunting there. It's really old and looked like a piece of tree branch.
I decided to walk along a fence line which ends up along the river bank. Where the fence makes a 90 degree angle at the edge of the river there is an opening where the deer jump the fence and then have to jump over a log right along the river bank. About 10 feet from the log and only about a foot from the bank's edge, I found this nice half of an Eight point. The brow tine is about 6 inches long . I'm going back tomorrow and do some backtracking on the trail to see if I can find the other side. BTW, this shed dosen't belong to the bigger buck that I've been seeing back there... not large enough.
I must have spent two hours looking for shed antlers in the thicket and didn't find any. On my way back out, I walked over to the tree where I was sitting last deer season when I shot that fat little buck.
No further than 12 feet away from the tree I found this old shed! I didn't see it last fall when I was hunting there. It's really old and looked like a piece of tree branch.
I decided to walk along a fence line which ends up along the river bank. Where the fence makes a 90 degree angle at the edge of the river there is an opening where the deer jump the fence and then have to jump over a log right along the river bank. About 10 feet from the log and only about a foot from the bank's edge, I found this nice half of an Eight point. The brow tine is about 6 inches long . I'm going back tomorrow and do some backtracking on the trail to see if I can find the other side. BTW, this shed dosen't belong to the bigger buck that I've been seeing back there... not large enough.
