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Shedding time...
#7086477
02/20/18 10:14 PM
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Joined: Jul 2017
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rangertaylor
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Green Horn
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Has anyone found any sheds yet? Heading out to the ranch this weekend to fill protein and check cameras, just trying to see if anyone has seen pictures or knows if they are dropping their sheds yet. Thanks
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086478
02/20/18 10:17 PM
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Joined: Mar 2009
Posts: 809
okietex
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They have started for sure
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086486
02/20/18 10:25 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 29,637
SapperTitan
Taking Requests
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Taking Requests
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Most the bucks around here don’t loose them until after Easter
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086494
02/20/18 10:29 PM
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Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,410
Tye
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Not on my place in Eastland county
If you shoot a young deer because a neighbor will shoot it, you are that neighbor.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086498
02/20/18 10:33 PM
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Joined: Dec 2012
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TexasKC
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Haven't seen any in Lee county yet. Seems a little early for our neck of the woods.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086506
02/20/18 10:42 PM
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Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 19,875
Pitchfork Predator
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We are finding them on the smaller bucks now in southern Dickens county.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086511
02/20/18 10:50 PM
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Joined: Nov 2016
Posts: 664
Sparta
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Found a few singles and one set in Brady this weekend. However, most of the bucks I saw on foot still had their antlers. I'd say about 1 in 4 have dropped.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086521
02/20/18 10:56 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 18,884
Jimbo1
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Found a small single in one of my feeder pens a couple of weeks ago. Shackleford County.
Awake - Not Woke!
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086525
02/20/18 11:00 PM
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redchevy
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Buddy flew his place in west texas last week and said about 1/2 the bucks had dropped.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086538
02/20/18 11:12 PM
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Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 15,217
don k
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I have found a couple from smaller Bucks
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086894
02/21/18 02:59 AM
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Joined: Nov 2011
Posts: 11,552
Texas buckeye
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Just tonight got a pic that told me something:  He is missing something! Wanted to find at least one side of him this year to see how thick his mass was. He will likely be a hit lister next year
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086895
02/21/18 03:01 AM
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Texas buckeye
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I believe this guy has completely shed:  Have no clue which buck it is though, but this guy was seen on camera before the one above so I know it isn’t the same buck
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7086980
02/21/18 04:17 AM
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BowsnRods
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I have found a few from younger bucks
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: Sparta]
#7086983
02/21/18 04:24 AM
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Joined: Dec 2012
Posts: 12,600
Simple Searcher
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Found a few singles and one set in Brady this weekend. However, most of the bucks I saw on foot still had their antlers. I'd say about 1 in 4 have dropped. Near Menard we are seeing sheds already, a month earlier than the last several years.
![[Linked Image]](https://live.staticflickr.com/848/43929693942_36eb4b30cb_m.jpg) "Man is still a hunter, still a simple searcher after meat..." Robert C. Ruark
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7087375
02/21/18 04:05 PM
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rangertaylor
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Last year we were finding them around this time in Coleman County, but with this goofy Texas weather I wasn't sure if they had started yet
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7087391
02/21/18 04:24 PM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 7,759
snake oil
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They started dropping around here the first of December.....Weird year.
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7087393
02/21/18 04:27 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 8,169
westtexaswatkins
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I sat in my stand a few times last weekend in Stonewall county and every buck I saw still had their headgear.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7087421
02/21/18 04:44 PM
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Joined: Jan 2018
Posts: 17
Gillium
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Light Foot
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Made a trip to Utopia, Tx (Uvalde County) last weekend. Saw two bucks with antlers still.....
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7087819
02/21/18 09:26 PM
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Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 13,398
PMK
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still have them around Georgetown ... just drove thru the old country club subdivision last weekend, saw lots of head gear, even saw a pretty decent 8 point chasing a yearling or fawn doe like a mad man.
"everyone that lives dies but not everyone who dies lived..."
~PMK~
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7089050
02/22/18 08:50 PM
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Joined: Jan 2016
Posts: 7,759
snake oil
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If I was younger I would train a Lab to hunt sheds.......
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7089079
02/22/18 09:08 PM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 4,794
krmitchell
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Nothing dropping in the hill country yet.
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7089682
02/23/18 03:58 AM
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Joined: Feb 2016
Posts: 398
Charlieb68
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It getting close, but still alot with antlers being seen on the bucks on game camera
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: snake oil]
#7089751
02/23/18 05:13 AM
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 7,200
therancher
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If I was younger I would train a Lab to hunt sheds....... And I could keep it rented out. It amazes me that someone hasn't figured out you could make a decent living with a good shed dog down here. I know SEVERAL people who would pay $500 bucks for a few individual deer sheds. There's a bunch of people I don't know...
Last edited by therancher; 02/23/18 05:15 AM.
Crotchety old bastidge
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: therancher]
#7089754
02/23/18 05:18 AM
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 7,200
therancher
THF Trophy Hunter
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I was out feeding today and saw a group of 10 or 12 bucks all chasing one doe. I HATE that. But it happens when the stragglers start coming into estrus. Crossing my fingers they don't kill each other.
My mature bucks won't lose theirs till mid April. Because there will still be some young does to breed.
Crotchety old bastidge
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Re: Shedding time...
[Re: rangertaylor]
#7102148
03/06/18 12:42 AM
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Joined: Feb 2013
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krmitchell
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Surprised to see a bunch running around with headgear still. This was from today. 
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