It wasn’t a baseball game, though; it was a “shed hunt,” a search for antlers that whitetail bucks shed every winter on a ...

Adams is as enthusiastic a shed hunter as anyone, but he also advises caution when it comes to venturing into the post-shed deer woods. Basically, use your head and don’t over-pressure deer when ...

Sure, some can still be carrying in March, but if a shed hunter waits too long so that every buck is antler free, one risks having the best fields and woods picked over by other shed hunters first.

Scott Wait is a senior biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife. He’s also a long-time mule deer chaser and shed hunter. “Mule deer winter in bush-and-shrub habitats,” says Wait. “This means piñon, ...

A lover of wildlands and seeker of sheds, Mangold had just finished approximately his 30th opening-day antler hunt on the public land adjacent to the off-limits National Elk Refuge. By 4:30 p.m ...

Whitetail deer throughout the state typically cast off or “shed” their antlers beginning ... Finding that can inspire wildlife watchers and fire a hunter’s dreams with plans for the coming ...

Shed hunters are often big game hunters themselves, and responsible ones recognize that not pressuring deer and elk in winter is not only the respectful thing to do, it also increases that herd’s ...