They dropping yet?

WYO_ATL · Jan 28, 2015

Just curious who has been seeing any muley drops yet. I have been after the herd pretty good with my sled, and have only seen a couple bucks with one side. I just hope they stick around long enough to drop on my area.

bonepicker · Jan 29, 2015

Relax WYO. There's still alot of time left. Sounds like you're fevering to me. Doctor says to take 4 weeks and call him in March.

jode · Jan 31, 2015

I've seen a couple of small bucks with only one side, but in the same area, I've seen big mature bucks really going after it with each other (fighting) and the antlers are holding on tight. I'm not sure how fast things change, but it seems like when they are fighting that hard and they aren't coming off, they probably still have some time left...

Hunthigh · Feb 1, 2015

>Just curious who has been seeing
>any muley drops yet. I
>have been after the herd
>pretty good with my sled,
>and have only seen a
>couple bucks with one side.
>I just hope they stick
>around long enough to drop
>on my area.

Wyo,

"After the herd. . . with my sled"

Lets not forget that deer and elk are under extreme physical stress this time of year eeking out an existence with limited food sources, concentrated predation, and deep snow. I really hope your not out there chasing bucks around on your snowmobile. Every calorie burned this time of year comes at a cost. Bucks are particularly vulnerable because they burnt so many calories during the rut immediately prior to winter. Keep that in mind and try to make your scouting and shed hunting low impact. You may just be killing that big buck you hope to tag next season. . .

bonepicker · Feb 2, 2015

+1 Hunthigh!

WYO_ATL · Feb 4, 2015

Here I am catching some air, trying to cut off the herd on my sled. (I was kidding about chasing the deer around, I don't even own a snowmobile) I just have been glassing from the truck, have seen some real nice bucks, but everything has had two horns as of last weekend. I will be out checking them again this weekend, and will probably put boots to the ground the last weekend in February.

Ticks N Tines · Feb 6, 2015

This is weird year. I'm pretty sure they won't be dropping until May 5th or later. Check back around that time.

Hunthigh · Feb 8, 2015

HAHA. Nice.

Verticalslope · Feb 9, 2015

I was out hunting coyotes this past weekend and saw multiple people out shed hunting. Problem is every buck I saw was still packing both antlers. Didn't see any with recently lost antler wounds.

bonepicker · Feb 9, 2015

Yeah, in my area at least, I've done a little glassing and have not seen a single dropped buck. Another 2 weeks and I'll really go out. Alot of people out looking already though, mostly just running the deer around an finding the occasional old shed. I'm going to try to hold out a bit longer.

Pines_N_Tines · Feb 9, 2015

My boys have been wanting to go glass the herds. My head gasket went out on the truck (parts are on order)so we went as far up the dirt roads as we dared in the car which was pretty far with this strange warm weather. We rounded a small hill and watched a herd of about fifty deer move down from the small hill and nervously wander across a grassy meadow. We could see a couple bucks in the group with bloody circles. We hadn't planned on doing any walking but the deer had already moved off of this small hill and across the valley so we walked 100 yards up from the car and found these laying six inches apart. When we glassed across the valley we saw six bucks with headgear so in a few weeks will definitely hit the area.

Here's the ATL

Cooper · Feb 10, 2015

That's a cool pic

bonepicker · Feb 11, 2015

Cool set, can't hope for too much bigger in a 3 point!

bonepicker · Feb 12, 2015

Went out glassing today. 25 bucks, 1 had shed out, 2 had dropped one side. The rest still have both. It was an encouraging trip but the downside was that most of the bucks were 3 points or smaller.

fortheloveofit · Feb 12, 2015

I have been out the last two weekends and 3/4 of the bucks have shed here. Started finding awesome Browns already

Cooper · Feb 12, 2015

Is here utah?

fortheloveofit · Feb 12, 2015

Yes in Utah

Pines_N_Tines · Feb 13, 2015

LAST EDITED ON Feb-13-15 AT 09:54AM (MST)[p]Saw eight bucks yesterday. 7 of them had both sides and one had one side. Nothing big, all three poins and smaller.

elks96 · Feb 15, 2015

Spent last couple days spotting and looking deer with the kids from the truck. We saw 47 deer. Only one had lost both and no others had even lost a side yet.

No snow has them scattered and in much higher and harder to reach places. Might be a good year for those of use who get out and really hike for shed!