Anyone shed hunting?

YollaBolly · Mar 17, 2004

Anyone shed hunting blackies out here in MM land? Lets here some details. Rick

Blacktail_boy · Mar 18, 2004

I have been out once this year....no luck though. I think I will go out and look hard during spring break

treekiller · Mar 19, 2004

I've gone out three times and picked up about 20 antlers, the largest being from a 140" class buck. I haven't found the other side, yet!

treekiller · Mar 20, 2004

Here's a set I found last week.

treekiller · Mar 20, 2004

LAST EDITED ON Mar-20-04 AT 08:57AM (MST)[p]A friend was out with me two weeks ago and found this matched set.

treekiller · Mar 20, 2004

Here's a pic of him with his find.

YollaBolly · Mar 20, 2004

Great pictures! Are those CA, OR or WA sheds? Again, awesome and thanks for sharing. Rick

treekiller · Mar 20, 2004

These are all northern Oregon Cascades. Here's a matched set another buddy of mine found in the last month.

treekiller

treekiller · Mar 20, 2004

Check out all the knarly trash below the eyeguard on this massive shed!

RACKMASTER · Mar 26, 2004

Open Turkey! We alway find few this weekend!
Heading west of Stonyford! Big Toms are every where!
Deer look fat and nice thick button bucks every place we scouted! RACKMASTER

kilowatt · Mar 26, 2004

Rackmaster,
Where are you from? The wife and I use to go out west of Stonyford and fish Letts lake each spring until too many people found out about the little lake and great fishing there. Haven't been back since 1988 as too crowded there.

Brian

Ridge_Runner · Mar 26, 2004

Brian.... Everytime I hear or think about Letts Lake I get a good chuckle. We were hunting up there one year and like you said it does get a bit crowded but we were camped in the campground there and they used to have this caretaker that stayed in the camp in a trailer. Well somebody had shot a deer and had it hanging in there camp so we decided to stop in and have a look. Well this old guy "the caretaker" Had been hittin the sauce pretty heavy and was in the camp and looking at the deer also. One of the kids in the camp was looking at the face of the deer and noticed the glands under the eyes how they look like holes and asked what are those? Well before anybody could say anything the old caretaker staggers up and takes hold of the horns and is eye to eye with this deer and says " I'll tell you what those are" This deer has been shot before with a 22! We all just about pissed ourselves laughing. Well later that day in the evening he comes rolling out of his trailer in an Owl costume staggering all over the place and scaring all the kids in the camps. Later that eveing we found him passed out by the lakes edge still in this owl costume! Man that was some funny chit!

Happy trails
Ridge Runner
"Now Pilgrim,you sure you can skin griz"

YollaBolly · Mar 27, 2004

As a kid, about 35 years ago, I would hunt the area around Goat Mt. I collected a couple of bucks but never any monster. Does anyone around here hunt that area? Letts Lake use to be a fairly remote spot to fish. Now, every whacko enviro and their dogs camp along the lakes edge. How I crave for the old days.

Ridge_Runner · Mar 27, 2004

I know what you mean YollaBolly. We used to have it all to ourselves pretty much back then. Would also hunt up around Monkey rock by Pillsbury too. Man the times have changed.

Happy trails
Ridge Runner
"Now Pilgrim,you sure you can skin griz"

kilowatt · Mar 28, 2004

When I was still working I use to go up to Pillsbury once a month with the company boat, a 14' Klamath w/Honda 10HP.
Had to put in at the boat ramp and go back down and check out the "logboom" in the lake in front of the gates on the dam.
Tough job, but someone had to do it and no one else wnated to do it.
Would then go and check out up the inlets and look for "what ever" and then have lunch up at Sunset Campgrounds. Most of the time would see and Elk or two at the "airway landing".

Been about 6 years now since I have been there at Pillsbury, one thing for sure the "pot growers" are still up there in that neck of the woods.

Brian

Blueoak · Mar 29, 2004

I hunted Hull mountian as a kid with my dad. In the sixties there were a lot of bucks up there. I don't go anymore, to many people. I have a picture of me standing on monkey rock.

jamwayden · Apr 2, 2004

What time of the year do deer shed their antlers?

Blueoak · Apr 2, 2004

March?

treekiller · Apr 2, 2004

They started shedding them in January this year. We had a heavy snow pack and very cold temps which kicked the Blacktails into survival mode. Most years they don't really start dropping good until Feb.20-25

We lost alot of the yearlings this winter in certain areas. Haven't found any big bucks that were winterkilled, yet!

treekiller