Finding mountain sheds

[tuffcrk14]

I fell into whitetail hunting last fall in the mountains of NW MT only because of a buck I had gotten on camera for a short period of time last October. Ever since, I’ve been trying to dive into the world of mountain whitetail. There’s a lot to them and I’m slowly putting the pieces of the puzzle together on how to hunt them. Recently, I found a matching set of sheds (Not the monster I got on camera) midway up a mountain on an overgrown logging road where I had found a car hood size scrape last fall that I was going to check for any spring activity. I’m pretty sure I discovered this buck’s late season safety zone. I put tape to his antlers and tried to be as accurate possible with how the rack would sit on his head. He measured 129” gross and 126” net. I’m pretty stoked to get back there and set cameras over a mock scrape later this spring to see what bucks have made the winter. Where is everyone finding the majority of their shed antlers?

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[Prairiekid]

I’m in the mountains of Alberta. I tend to find them 2/3’s of the way up. Usually on a south facing or south west facing slope. But it’s not easy, that’s nice set! It seems by the time I find them often the squirrels have too.

 

[tuffcrk14]

This was on a south face that was thinned out sometime in the 80s. I’m just basing that on the old Vitamin R beer cans I’ve found while I’ve walked this hillside. I spoke to a mountain whitetail guy about my find and he said after the rut they just rest and recover like a bull elk does in post rut. They won’t travel any further than necessary and they’ll hang where they feel safest until the snow pushes them out. Finding areas like that are where he finds the big sheds.


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