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LAST EDITED ON May-12-15 AT 11:04PM (MST) by Founder (admin)[p]Does everyone remember when they started shed hunting? Here is a short clip my buddy Micah put together from a while ago when he first got into shed hunting. Check it out and subscribe to our youtube channel Hidden Instinct for weekly videos. Thanks for watching.

https://youtu.be/GmYFBcqZ_uc


Garrett Carr
 
I never actually went "shed hunting" as a kid. But the area my family hunted on in the fall held deer all year, so we would occasionally find sheds while rifle hunting. Nothing ever really big. I have a few two points, and a couple little four points, and two antlers that probably score 60" on their own. Those were just by pure luck, laying in a trail or knoll we happened to be on. I'd like to do more shed hunting, but there's so many yahoos that do it as income, it's barely worth it.

Especially in Utah where there is no season. Guys are out watching the deer/elk starting Feb 1st, just drooling over them until an antler comes off. Then they race over to it and take a photo with the blood still on it. There is no weekend warrior trips these days. By the time I know I can head to an area where deer hang in the winter, hoping that many of them have dropped to make the trip worth it, the "professionals" have been camped there for a month and have been picking up "fresh sheds" the whole time.

I might head to a state like WY where they have an "opening day". :) Seems like opportunity would increase for me that way.

"Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion!" 2 Ne. 28: 24
 
Years and years of out hunting with my Dad, and later trips alone for various reasons, I can't ever remember finding ANY antlers. But I became addicted in February of 2005. I still vividly remember my first find. I was walking a fenceline in an old burn and I found where a bull elk had jumped the fence. His front hooves had sunk deep in the mud, and the impact of the landing jarred both antlers loose! It ranks as one of my best moments EVER!:)
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Oh yeah...I'm happily addicted! Since that first adventure, I've had some amazing adventures finding deadheads, old bottles, binoculars, automotive tools (a bolt cutter, 4-way wrench, hi-lift jack),several knives, an axe and a splitting maul, a railroad crossing sign from a 1900's railroad, chinese pottery shards, a 1923 NV license plate,1917 mining claim paperwork, a 1920's Signal Oil Co. NV road map, a miner's knapsack, and a few arrowheads, animal skulls(several of these items turned to local museum), along with a myriad of shed antlers (I've averaged 90-120 per year)!
 
When I was about 10, while trailing behind dad on a deer hunt, I found a small shed. I examined it, then tossed it. At age 12, again while following my dad, we found a 326 inch bull elk head. My 9 year old brother an I carried it out of the canyon to the truck. It hangs in my garage.

At 17, I was elk hunting and walked into a small bowl that was loaded with elk sheds. I'm guessing 20-25 sheds, but I didn't count them, or pick any up.

But in 2002, after filming the same 195 inch muley twice in the same patch of trees, I went shed hunting for the first time. It was April 4th, and I sat in the truck and glassed as my friend Rex walked where I told him. After 2-3 hours, we had turned up 4-5 sheds, including the right side of the buck I had filmed. 5 weeks later, we returned with another friend Ryan, and after an hour, he matched up the big one.

Been hooked ever since.

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