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Subject: When do bucks start to shed?

Author:
Tom Huggins

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Date Posted: 22:45:08 12/21/02 Sat

I have been hunting sheds for twenty some years now and don't know too many other shed hunters. I think it would be interesting to get a dialogue exchange going on factors that influence when bucks shed. In Kansas I pick up mainly Whitetail but have found a couple of Muley sheds. Cold hard facts aren't easily learned while being possesed by this addiction. The first few years I searched, I'd usually wait until the first or second week of March on the premesis that there would be more sheds on the ground by mid-March, I didn't think that there was a lot of competition back then. Nowadays I usually start looking in mid-January. I have known bird hunters who have found a fresh drop on the last week-end of quail season for about the last three years. The latest I have observed an antlered buck was in mid-May one year, he was a Muley. I've never seen an antlered Whitetail near that late. I do feel that the buck-doe ratio in a given area influences when the first antlers hit the ground. My theory is that if all the does aren't bred in there first or second cycle then the bucks testosterone level is somewhat elevated, causing the buck to hold his rack longer. Once again that is theory only.

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