After the season of hunting whitetails, a great way to combat the winter blues is to hunt for the fallen, prized deer antlers. After the rut and into late January to late March, male deer lose their antlers, hoping next years antlers will be even bigger through digesting proper nutrients and abundant amounts of food. If you were to look for dropped antlers, where would you go? Today, my cousin and I went hunting for sheds.
First, as I told you in a previous post, their survival skills kick in and the deer hunt for food, water, and security. Hence, that is the place to look. An area where they feel secure but yet have food close by, and water. I can go to such the place. Now we just need to go down the right trail coming and going from their hiding place or bedding area. We didn't find any antler sheds, but we did find some items:
We found a lot of scat...
It might be too early yet; however we did see some sign that maybe they are wanting to get their headware off for this spring. The deer have once again started to rub on trees, and here are a few examples...
Even though we didn't find anything that we were searching for, we did enjoy the woods and seeing the different wildlife around. Here was a deer heading in our direction:
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