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    • SDMFer
        March 9, 2012 at 6:39 pm
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        #7510

        Heading out for a little bit of hiking in the spring like weather this weekend. I’ll be keeping an eye out for shed antlers, but I was wondering if any of you all have seen bucks/bulls that had either dropped or were still packing around last years growth.

      • David Petersen
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          March 10, 2012 at 1:07 am
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          #62942

          The earliest I’ve seen elk shed here is mid-March; not quite there yet. And I’ve seen big bulls with antlers as late as late April. Don’t know about mule deer as they don’t winter here — they’re all in town. 😆

          In any event, turkey season for me is a triple treat: hunting turkey, sheds, and morels. I’m also curious to investigate the remains of winterkilled elk, which always (when enough evidence remains) are unrecovered fatalaties of rifle seasons, headed downhill until they drop.

        • SDMFer
            March 10, 2012 at 1:53 pm
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            #63457

            I didn’t draw a turkey tag this year so won’t be spending too much time chasing them. Sun is up and the cabin fever is about too kill me so I’m headin to the hills, hopefully I’ll find a least one knife handle laying out in the grass.

          • SDMFer
              March 13, 2012 at 3:14 pm
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              #10509

              Didn’t find any sheds. Instead, being the first really nice day of the year found lots of !@#$’s on ATVs and jacked up trucks tearing up our public lands. Mud season is upon us!! So I took lots of pictures and sent a scathing email (its becoming a spring time tradition for me) with attached photos and license plate numbers to the forest service office. While the wheels of bureaucracy turn slow, at least it got the ball moving. I heard this morning that the FS is locking a bunch of gates in the area at least until it dries out and bumping up patrols by both LEO’s and other personel through the rest of “mud season” and on into the summer.

              I’ll take that over a few shed antlers anyday.

            • Bruce Smithhammer
                March 13, 2012 at 3:18 pm
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                #10514

                SDMFer wrote: Instead, being the first really nice day of the year found lots of !@#$’s on ATVs and jacked up trucks tearing up our public lands.

                :evil::evil::evil:

              • wahoo
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                  March 14, 2012 at 12:44 am
                  Post count: 420
                  #10943

                  yup it is like a highway behind my house. I have found some sheds all from 2011. Deer and elk still packing

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