windymtnman
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Yesterday, I went out in the rain, parked the ATV a couple miles from the ranch, and commenced to walk a North slope that's a Wintering area. I found a nice, heavy Mulie shed 50 yards from where I parked. I walked a 1/4 mile from where I found it, and found the 2nd half of that rack, so I was pretty stoked to find the mate.
I then kept with my plan to walk back & forth on the ridge, serpentining my way to the top, keeping a reasonable distance from my last pass, sort of keeping within the ability to view the edge of my last pass. In other words, sort of a grid search.
When you hunt sheds this way, you often walk up on game trails with fresh sign. I often wonder if I should abandon my heading, and just follow the game trail, which may deviate from the heading I was on? I've done that, and frankly never found it all that productive, but still think it ought to be. I see low tree branches, and think if a Bull or Buck walked under that, he'd probably pop an antler off if the timing was right.
So, it's been my experience that a grid search might be more productive than just walking the trails. Wondering how others fare in this? Are game trails better than walking a grid?
When I'm in more open country, I just ride my horse around and scan everywhere, but I also put on a lot of miles walking rough country. What can I say.....I like to shed hunt.
I then kept with my plan to walk back & forth on the ridge, serpentining my way to the top, keeping a reasonable distance from my last pass, sort of keeping within the ability to view the edge of my last pass. In other words, sort of a grid search.
When you hunt sheds this way, you often walk up on game trails with fresh sign. I often wonder if I should abandon my heading, and just follow the game trail, which may deviate from the heading I was on? I've done that, and frankly never found it all that productive, but still think it ought to be. I see low tree branches, and think if a Bull or Buck walked under that, he'd probably pop an antler off if the timing was right.
So, it's been my experience that a grid search might be more productive than just walking the trails. Wondering how others fare in this? Are game trails better than walking a grid?
When I'm in more open country, I just ride my horse around and scan everywhere, but I also put on a lot of miles walking rough country. What can I say.....I like to shed hunt.