Shed Hunting Sub?

We’ve seen 350 bulls packing till 4/13 and rag horns dropping 3/29. Like the rut no exact science, only the elk know.
Agreed to a degree
What I’ve noticed, after picking up sheds from the same bulls (some bucks) over many years is that individual critters drop early and some just hold late.
That said, I’ve never seen a mature bull hold late in decades of observation.
Likely location and other factors, but most definitely a constant theme in my area.
 
Despite being too early, I couldn't pass up the great weather to get out for an early season shed hunt in SE Iowa. Found a handful of old, will-be-nice-in-a-few-years sheds but never found a recent shed. Very depressing to find some deadheads because this is land I hunt on. One with velvet likely EHD, one likely wounded by neighbors this season, the biggest one unknown.
 

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EHD got too many of our deer this past season.

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It’s crazy how nothing will touch them other than the ravens picking their eyes out. We have a bunch of mummies my way.

I used to hit the horn hunting really hard when I logged. We would typically get laid off around the end of February till mid April so it worked out great.
 
Road shed from last year.
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