1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your home for 2 00:00:06,519 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: deer hunting news, stories and strategies, and now your host, 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:15,960 Speaker 1: Mark Kenyon. Hey there, folks, and welcome to the Wired 4 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:18,920 Speaker 1: to Hunt Podcast. I'm your host, Mark Kenyon, and this 5 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:22,720 Speaker 1: is episode number two. Today we're gonna be talking shed hunting, 6 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: shed hunting stories, shed hunting tips, and the funny story 7 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:29,520 Speaker 1: of how I actually fell through a frozen river while 8 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,520 Speaker 1: out looking for anners. It's not like a plan. Let's 9 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: do it ALRIGHTY joining me this Bommy Afternoon as always 10 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: is my co host Dan Johnson. Hi, doing man. You 11 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,479 Speaker 1: know I'm doing pretty good. Uh It's only Wednesday, but 12 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:57,880 Speaker 1: I feel like my week has been dragging on. Uh. 13 00:00:57,920 --> 00:01:00,800 Speaker 1: My daughter. My daughter does not like to leap. She 14 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: didn't like to sleep last night. She's typically a good sleeper, 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,800 Speaker 1: so Daddy didn't get much sleep last night. That is 16 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:11,600 Speaker 1: no fun. I I'm lucky at this point I don't 17 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:15,760 Speaker 1: need to deal with reduced sleep due to children. But 18 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: I do have dog issues sometimes, if that counts for anything. 19 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 1: My dogs occasionally wake up in the middle of the 20 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,360 Speaker 1: night barking at random boogey men and stuff. So yeah, 21 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: not too bad though, how much sleep to Jennifer getting Um, 22 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: you know, four hours, I think, which is you know, 23 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: I'm not complaining because four is better than zero, true, true, 24 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: but it's definitely less than six to eight. Yeah, exactly exactly. 25 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: You know you mentioned dogs. I kind of wish my 26 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,920 Speaker 1: daughter was trained like my dog. You know, she would 27 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:51,000 Speaker 1: be going to the bathroom outside in the front yard. 28 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: But but at least it wouldn't be you know, on 29 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: the floor or in uh you know, having a change 30 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: of diaper every once in a while. Then you gotta 31 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: do is give her a treat when she comes back 32 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:04,960 Speaker 1: into the house. That's not a bad idea, you know. 33 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:06,880 Speaker 1: I think there's some people around where I live that 34 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 1: do train their kids to do that based on what 35 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: I've seen. What part of Michigan. Well, I don't I 36 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,920 Speaker 1: don't want to say now, but uh, well that's funny. 37 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: How about how about the work day? I know that 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 1: maybe the or the listeners don't know, but you rush 39 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 1: home from work every day just to film this show 40 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:28,239 Speaker 1: for us. How'd that go? You know? Um, I got 41 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: a little Honda Civic. It's uh two doors, and it 42 00:02:32,919 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 1: has great handling and pretty decent acceleration. So I did 43 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,200 Speaker 1: some swerving in and out of traffic to get here. 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,040 Speaker 1: But I'm here safe and as soon as I'm done 45 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:47,480 Speaker 1: recording this, then I go and pick up my daughter 46 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:51,120 Speaker 1: from daycare. So my life is, uh, my life is 47 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,519 Speaker 1: pretty busy right now, I guess. So. I I don't 48 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,799 Speaker 1: know if this will make you angry and out, but 49 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: I woke up this morning, rolled out of bed, and 50 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: I went to my office and him at pajamas pretty 51 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: much the whole day still, um, so rough day, rough 52 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: day here too. I guess you all the life of 53 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: the self employed person, right, Well, you're technically a writer, 54 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 1: so you're you're you live. Uh. I guess what you'd 55 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: say in alternate lifestyle anyway, right, something like that. Yeah, 56 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:21,760 Speaker 1: but I always joke it sounds all great, but I 57 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: never know if I'm gonna have that mortgage payment or not. 58 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: So there's pros and cons right right, exactly exactly. Yeah. 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:33,799 Speaker 1: Well we're both here and we're talking today about shed hunting. Um. 60 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 1: We had a fun shuduting trip not too long ago, Dan, 61 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: I definitely want to talk about that, but overall, today 62 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: I wanted to share some stories, UM talk to listeners 63 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: about some different shed hunting tips and tricks that can 64 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,600 Speaker 1: hopefully help them find more antlers and then kind of 65 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: cover everything in between. Um. That said, though, for those 66 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: that maybe I don't know what shed hunting is or 67 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,040 Speaker 1: aren'test familiar dandy, you want to give us maybe a 68 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 1: quick intro to what shed hunting is all about and 69 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: why it's worthwhile, Well, I'll I'll put it into simple terms. Okay, 70 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: every year deer their box, their antlers fall off their 71 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:16,039 Speaker 1: heads and then they begin to grow new ones. Now, uh, 72 00:04:16,760 --> 00:04:20,440 Speaker 1: crazy people like us we go into the timber or 73 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: to where these deer living and we walk back and 74 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:25,640 Speaker 1: forth and back and forth and back and forth until 75 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:29,839 Speaker 1: we find these sheds. And you know, if you're passionate 76 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: about shed hunting like I know me and Mark are, 77 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:35,800 Speaker 1: it's always cool to find a shed from a deer 78 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:39,360 Speaker 1: that you may have passed or that you you've seen 79 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,279 Speaker 1: from the tree stand, or you have some kind of 80 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:46,160 Speaker 1: history with and uh, it's just a story that you 81 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:48,920 Speaker 1: that you basically get a take home with you at 82 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: the end of the day and say, hey look what 83 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 1: I found, you know, or Hey I passed this deer, 84 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,160 Speaker 1: or hey I've never seen this buck before, you know, 85 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: or you know you flop through trail camera pictures and 86 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: stuff like that in its simplest terms, And like my 87 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: football coach in high school used to say, you gotta 88 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:07,320 Speaker 1: keep your head on a squibble. So you just walked 89 00:05:07,320 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 1: back and forth and you keep your head on a 90 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: swibble and try to hit all the places that you 91 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: think the deer at. If you're lucky, you'll run into 92 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: a shed or two. Yeah. Yeah, that's the truth. That's 93 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,440 Speaker 1: as core of that shed hunting. Um, it's funny. You know, 94 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: shed hunting seems, you know, like a given for us, 95 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,360 Speaker 1: but you know, like I mentioned earlier, there's a lot 96 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:30,839 Speaker 1: of people that don't know what it is. And a 97 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 1: couple of funny stories on that on that topic. One, 98 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 1: A buddy and I were out shed hunting earlier this 99 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:39,680 Speaker 1: year in Ohio and ran across the guy that was 100 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:43,440 Speaker 1: out cutting some wood and we introduced ourselves and we're 101 00:05:43,480 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: chatting with him, and he asked us what we're doing, 102 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 1: and we said we were, you know, shed hunting, looking 103 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:50,320 Speaker 1: for deer antlers and whatnot. It's like, oh, wow, that's 104 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: that's cool, and no people did that. He's like, so 105 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,599 Speaker 1: how many you know, how many do you find out there? 106 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: And we mentioned we found five today and he was 107 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 1: just like, oh, he smokes, there's five dead deer out there, 108 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,280 Speaker 1: and what do you do? Do Do you saw the antlers off? 109 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: Or how do you get him off? The guy had 110 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: no idea that deer lose their antlers every year, and 111 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:09,720 Speaker 1: you know, I think a lot of people don't realize that. 112 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,440 Speaker 1: It's kind of incredible to think about, you know, especially 113 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 1: this big deer, that they grow these new antlers every 114 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 1: single year. It's, uh, it's pretty remarkable. Yeah. But another 115 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,479 Speaker 1: quick one that is a favorite. This was two years ago, 116 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:25,520 Speaker 1: I think that same friend of mine and I were 117 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,640 Speaker 1: in Iowa shed hunting and we were staying at another 118 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: friend's house who wasn't so big into shed hunting, and uh, 119 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,160 Speaker 1: me and my buddy Corey, we decided to head out. 120 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,480 Speaker 1: We're looking for antlers all day while our other friend 121 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: he stayed at home, he was gonna go fishing or something. Well, 122 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,480 Speaker 1: about halfway through the day, we get a text message 123 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:42,920 Speaker 1: from this guy and he says, hey, I decided to 124 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:44,960 Speaker 1: go out shed hunting. We'll see how it goes. So 125 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,000 Speaker 1: we were we thought that was pretty cool, and about 126 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,839 Speaker 1: half hour maybe an hour later, he sends his text 127 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,359 Speaker 1: message back and he's like, I found six, and me 128 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: and Corey hadn't found a single one all day, so 129 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:57,360 Speaker 1: we couldn't believe it. We were just this is how 130 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 1: it usually goes, right, We shed hunt all day, I 131 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:01,520 Speaker 1: couldn't find anything, and the guy that doesn't care about 132 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: sheds goes out and find six in like a half hour. 133 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 1: So we tell him to send us a picture, and 134 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: a few minutes later he sends us a picture, and 135 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 1: it's a picture of a kind of grassy, overgrown field 136 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: and you know, a little branches here and there, and 137 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: those red building in the background, and some random conifer 138 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 1: trees and whatnot. And so me and Corey are sitting 139 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 1: here looking at this picture looking for the antler. And 140 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:25,119 Speaker 1: we spent a couple of minutes, maybe five minutes, looking 141 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 1: for this antler. We zooming in, trying to find, you know, 142 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: where this possible antler could be hidden in this picture. 143 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 1: We thought he was sending us, you know, this shot 144 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: that he wanted us to kind of look all over 145 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: to find the antler. Finally we TechEd him back, like 146 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:39,480 Speaker 1: we can't see the shed. He sends back, it's the 147 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,840 Speaker 1: big red one in the back, he said, he's he 148 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,960 Speaker 1: sent us a picture of a workshed and that was 149 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 1: his sixth workshed he'd found that day, or storage shed. 150 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,600 Speaker 1: I guess it might say. So was he actually playing 151 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:58,880 Speaker 1: like being a smarty pants or was he just that ignorant? No, 152 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,360 Speaker 1: he knew what he was talking about. He was just 153 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:04,120 Speaker 1: being a smarty pants giving us a hard time. Well, 154 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: I'll tell you where I work. Uh I mentioned, you know, 155 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: people don't have any idea that people hunt deer, and 156 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: this is Iowa, you know. And uh so I've said, well, 157 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out shed hunting this weekend. So where 158 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:22,360 Speaker 1: do you do that at? And I said, well, um, 159 00:08:22,360 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: out in some of my hunting properties. They're just like, well, 160 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: don't you think you're gonna have better luck at like 161 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 1: home depot or Manard's. Okay, well I'm not gonna waste 162 00:08:33,679 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: my time talking to you. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's how 163 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,560 Speaker 1: it is. But I guess now everyone listening at this 164 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: point knows what shed hunting is, um. And like you said, Dan, 165 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: there's a lot of good reasons to do it. Like 166 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: you said, it's a lot of fun. Um. It's great 167 00:08:51,040 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 1: to have that physical you know, I don't know physical 168 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,319 Speaker 1: item that you have a memory attached to that you 169 00:08:57,320 --> 00:08:59,559 Speaker 1: can look back on. And as you mentioned, sometimes that's 170 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 1: related to a deer you've seen before or no before. Um. 171 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:05,840 Speaker 1: And then from a hunting perspective, you know that's helpful too, 172 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: because you're gonna know whether that deer made it through 173 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: the year or not. Um. In some in some cases 174 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 1: finding an angler can help you identify maybe we're that 175 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:17,640 Speaker 1: deer's betting, maybe where he's feeding during the late season. UM. 176 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 1: So there's some valuable information there. UM. But I think, 177 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: you know, let's dive into some details about about that 178 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: a little bit later. But I thought first maybe we 179 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,200 Speaker 1: could kick off this larger discussion on sheds by talking 180 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,560 Speaker 1: a little bit about our trip that we had earlier 181 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: in March. I headed down to your neck of the woods, 182 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: Dan and which I appreciate the invite and got to 183 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,640 Speaker 1: do some shed hunting with you. So what do you think? 184 00:09:42,640 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 1: Do you want to share a few highlights of our 185 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: southern Iowa adventure? Well, um, please don't take this the 186 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,000 Speaker 1: wrong way, but before we go any further, I just 187 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:57,200 Speaker 1: want to say you are never invited to Iowa again 188 00:09:57,200 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 1: to shed hunt because not only are you a safety hazard, 189 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:05,840 Speaker 1: you also find you also find the biggest shed on 190 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: the whole trip, and uh, you know, I found a 191 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,520 Speaker 1: good one too, but there was a bigger and because 192 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,640 Speaker 1: you know, we're Bacho men, you know it's always a competition. 193 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,160 Speaker 1: But now it was a blast. Man, I had fun. 194 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,280 Speaker 1: I'm glad you came got I'm glad you got to 195 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: walk some of the properties that I hunt. And honestly, 196 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,360 Speaker 1: I'm glad you found the bone that you found because 197 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,600 Speaker 1: you know, I'd like to start a tradition. You should 198 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 1: come back next year. Yeah, it was it was a blast. 199 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: I appreciate you leaving that shut out there for me 200 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: to find and leading me right to it. It did 201 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 1: make me feel better about myself. So your plan worked. 202 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:43,080 Speaker 1: Thank you. I don't know, did I forget to erase 203 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: the date that I found it before I placed it 204 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:47,199 Speaker 1: back out there? Yeah? I saw that permanent marker on 205 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: the bottom exactly exact. No, that was That was an 206 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,199 Speaker 1: awesome antler um. You know that the antler dance talking about. 207 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:58,480 Speaker 1: I We've been walking a ridge system and I came 208 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 1: down this point um that kind of came out of 209 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: this larger um kind of pine stand and down at 210 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 1: the bottom this point. I just saw this great big 211 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,280 Speaker 1: time arching up with a with an oak tree behind it, 212 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 1: and from fifty yards away or maybe maybe further, I 213 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: could instantly just knew it was a giant shed. I 214 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: literally think I started shaking. I was so excited. So 215 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: would that would it end up scoring again? I think 216 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 1: it was sixty four inches and four eights, so almost 217 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: almost sixty insurers. Definitely my best shed I've ever found 218 00:11:30,760 --> 00:11:34,120 Speaker 1: um by long Shop, so gosh, it was cool. It 219 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 1: had the split brow time, it had those two kickers 220 00:11:36,880 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: off the g two, and just all sorts of mass. 221 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: It was just a cool antler. I still sit in 222 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: my man cave room on occasion just kind of spinning 223 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 1: that antler around in my hands, looking at it, holding it. 224 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: It's it's pretty cool. Yeah, And uh, the best thing 225 00:11:53,920 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: about it is at the end of the day, when 226 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 1: we've walked all those miles and our legs are exhausted, 227 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,240 Speaker 1: and that you know, that bone you find just makes 228 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: it all worthwhile. I mean, even days where you don't 229 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:09,360 Speaker 1: find anything, it's still all worthwhile. But that just makes 230 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:14,679 Speaker 1: it a little bit sweeter. Heaven, that one little bit 231 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:17,640 Speaker 1: of success can make all those miles, make all those 232 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: miles worth it. But it can be tough. Jeez, after 233 00:12:19,960 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: you walk for hours and hours and hours about finding 234 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: any antler, that's uh, it can be really tough to 235 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 1: stay focused and stay excited. Uh. Well, I think our 236 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:33,280 Speaker 1: our first day, you know, aside from the two acts, 237 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:39,000 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them accidental sheds that I found, but um, yeah, 238 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: I mean it's uh, I just love going out there, 239 00:12:42,480 --> 00:12:44,720 Speaker 1: getting to be outside, and for me, it's it's almost 240 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 1: like a stress relief because I am inside. I'm almost 241 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,319 Speaker 1: like a caged animal at times. I feel like at 242 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: where I work in my cubicle that I said in 243 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,679 Speaker 1: all day long. So any chance to get outside and 244 00:12:57,720 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: just walk and be outside, uh, this is awesome. Yeah, 245 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,760 Speaker 1: I agree. Um, speaking of those two accidental sheds you 246 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:08,960 Speaker 1: found there at the end of our first day, I 247 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: want to kind of touch on that topic because what 248 00:13:11,040 --> 00:13:13,959 Speaker 1: you had there was a trail camera set up with 249 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: some corn that you put out there after the season 250 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 1: was done, and you set that up so you get 251 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 1: trail camera pictures of whatever bucks might have made it 252 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:24,680 Speaker 1: through the season, and you want to identify what those 253 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:28,360 Speaker 1: deer might be. Now you ended up finding to shed 254 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:32,120 Speaker 1: antlers there right near that camera site. And I want 255 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 1: to bring this up because there's a kind of a 256 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: lesson to be learned here that I think is valuable, 257 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 1: and that's how you can use trail cameras to help 258 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: you shed hunt. Um. I like to use them in 259 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:42,839 Speaker 1: a couple of ways. Number One, that reason that we 260 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,079 Speaker 1: just talked about. Excuse me, I've got the hiccups over here. 261 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: It gives you the information you need to know if 262 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:52,319 Speaker 1: a buck made it through the season. And then number two, 263 00:13:52,679 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: trail cameras can help you determine when those deer are 264 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 1: losing the wranglers. And that's going to help you out 265 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,120 Speaker 1: a lot, because I think that timing shed hunts is 266 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,720 Speaker 1: pretty important. You don't want to be shed hunting too 267 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,680 Speaker 1: soon because if you're walking the property multiple times before 268 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,079 Speaker 1: any of the bucks have lost their antlers, there's a 269 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 1: possibility that you could push those bucks off to another 270 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:15,720 Speaker 1: property where they might lose their antlers in that other place, 271 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 1: So you definitely don't want to do that. At the 272 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:20,600 Speaker 1: same time, you don't want to shed hunt too late 273 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,000 Speaker 1: because squirrels are gonna chew on them, or you know, 274 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: other guys might come in and grab your sheds. So 275 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:29,880 Speaker 1: it's really trying to find that sweet spot. Also, you know, 276 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 1: the whole issue of snow is another big deal too, 277 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: So I use trail cameras here in Michigan to help 278 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 1: me understand. You know, when are the majority of bucks, um, 279 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 1: one of the majority of bucks lost their antlers, and 280 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,200 Speaker 1: then I know whether or not I should go in 281 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,480 Speaker 1: there and start looking. So I think it was cool 282 00:14:45,520 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: that you had that camera out there, and then because 283 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 1: you had the corn there, you know, that led to 284 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:52,360 Speaker 1: the fact that you found a couple of antlers. So 285 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: it's something might do every year. Uh. And typically it's 286 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,640 Speaker 1: you know, the corn piles. They're j to keep deer 287 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,920 Speaker 1: in the area because I hunt on a property that 288 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of um egg fields surrounding it. 289 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,200 Speaker 1: So as soon as the crops are out every year, um, 290 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:14,560 Speaker 1: and the first snow comes down, the deer go to 291 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:19,560 Speaker 1: other places. And so um, after the after the season's over, 292 00:15:19,800 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: I dropped the corn, throw the trail camera out, and 293 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: like you said, it helps me get an inventory of 294 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:27,520 Speaker 1: the bucks that made it through the year. UM. And 295 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:29,920 Speaker 1: then I also can play it by ear on when 296 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:34,040 Speaker 1: you get out and actually do some do some walking. Yeah, yeah, 297 00:15:34,080 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: that's awesome. That's the way to do it. And I 298 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,440 Speaker 1: think that kind of um, this transition us well into 299 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 1: a basic um piece of advice when it comes to 300 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:46,080 Speaker 1: shed hunting, and that's about the main places you're gonna 301 00:15:46,080 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: find sheds. And like you did, while it was a 302 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:52,040 Speaker 1: kind of man made food source, you found two sheds 303 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 1: right there at a food source. And those are one 304 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: of the best possible places to find shed antlers in 305 00:15:56,800 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: the spring because deer obviously spend the majority of their 306 00:16:00,040 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 1: time at this time of year doing two things, either 307 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: feeding or betting, and so those are those are the 308 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: two spots overall that you really want to focus your 309 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,160 Speaker 1: time on looking for antlers. So in this case, it 310 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:13,920 Speaker 1: was corn corn pile in that case, but in many 311 00:16:13,960 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 1: other areas it's going to be cut corn fields or 312 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:19,880 Speaker 1: cut bean fields or maybe a food plot. Um. You know, 313 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: some cases they'll be different brushed within the timber. That's 314 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: that's holding deer and getting them defeat. But overall, if 315 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 1: you know where the top food sources are in your area, 316 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: especially during the late season, those are gonna be great 317 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:36,520 Speaker 1: places to look for sheds. Um. Anything else that you 318 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:39,320 Speaker 1: would add dan regards to you know, looking for antlers 319 00:16:39,320 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: around food sources and stuff like that. No, I mean 320 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,880 Speaker 1: it's typically it's typically exactly what you said. Just find 321 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: their betting area, find where you think the food sources, 322 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: and walk back and forth between those two points, and 323 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: you're gonna, you know, if there are deer in your area, 324 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:58,040 Speaker 1: you're gonna see their tracks, especially if there's snow on 325 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:00,920 Speaker 1: the ground, or typically this time of year it's um, 326 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: the ground's wet, so you're gonna see fresh tracks or 327 00:17:04,440 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: a well used path, and you just keep going back 328 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth, and you gotta put 329 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 1: in miles. You know, some of these guys, uh who owned, 330 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: you know, thousands of acres or property or own a 331 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:22,160 Speaker 1: lot of property with no pressure, have these huge food plots. 332 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,959 Speaker 1: They can go out and they can just walk their 333 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:27,919 Speaker 1: food sources or you know, a little bit around their 334 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:32,440 Speaker 1: bedding area and find a ton of sheds. But guys 335 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: like me, and I'm sure a lot of our listeners 336 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,639 Speaker 1: don't have that luxury, so we gotta put in the 337 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 1: miles for the piles. That's the truth. It's a lot 338 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,920 Speaker 1: of walking. Um. And to follo up on one of 339 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 1: the things you just mentioned, you talked about the fact 340 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:50,320 Speaker 1: that you can look in the in the mud for 341 00:17:50,359 --> 00:17:52,320 Speaker 1: tracks are well worn trails to find out where those 342 00:17:52,359 --> 00:17:55,240 Speaker 1: deer traveling. Another tip that I like that I actually 343 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: think I got from Bill Winkie Um, the founder of 344 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,960 Speaker 1: Midwest white tail dot com. He said that what he'll 345 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: look for and this just makes a lot of sense. 346 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: But you know, after the snow melts, it can sometimes 347 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 1: still be hard to see where the most dear activity 348 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,440 Speaker 1: has been. So he'll look for droppings because once that 349 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: snow melts will be just tons of droppings wherever those 350 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:15,720 Speaker 1: dearer bedding. So whenever I get into an area that 351 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:18,439 Speaker 1: looks like a good betting area and I find tons 352 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:21,440 Speaker 1: of droppings, I'm really going to spend some extra time 353 00:18:21,560 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 1: doing some searching there. Um. I think the key is 354 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: to to to queue in on the pooh. Que the pooh. 355 00:18:30,480 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: Is that going to be copy roating? It might be 356 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 1: it just came to me, but it might get I 357 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:40,159 Speaker 1: see that on a T shirt. You make that shirt 358 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:45,600 Speaker 1: and I'll wear it. Um. So speaking of betting areas, then, 359 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,080 Speaker 1: which you know, as you mentioned, are great spots to 360 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:52,520 Speaker 1: look for sheds. Um, you know for me what that 361 00:18:52,560 --> 00:18:57,320 Speaker 1: looks like in Michigan is typically seed there's or swamps 362 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,919 Speaker 1: or really thick grass that type of thing. Usually it's 363 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 1: holding deer in the later season here for us, I 364 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: also look for grassy areas and right next to food sources. 365 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: So lots of times will have like a cut corn field, 366 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,280 Speaker 1: and then along it is a border of tall native grasses, 367 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 1: and lots of times those deer will feed in the 368 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 1: field and then just step just off the edge of 369 00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: the field into that tall grass and bed down part 370 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,080 Speaker 1: way through the night as they're kind of feeding betting, 371 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,840 Speaker 1: feeding betting. So those are the kind of areas I 372 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 1: look for here in the flat lands of Michigan. But 373 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 1: I know around you down in Iowa and some of 374 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,680 Speaker 1: the other spots I hunt, like in southern Ohio, there's 375 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:38,120 Speaker 1: a lot more topography and hills and ridges and everything. Um. 376 00:19:38,359 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 1: So when I was there with you, like I mentioned, 377 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:42,719 Speaker 1: I found that really big shed on a ridge, and 378 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: I think that almost all of the sheds we found, 379 00:19:46,160 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: we're all along ridges or points or something on those lines. 380 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:52,239 Speaker 1: And do you typically find that the deer around you 381 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 1: are betting on those ridges down or points. Yeah. Um, 382 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 1: And for a couple of reasons. Okay, So obviously this 383 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:04,160 Speaker 1: winter was very harsh, and any chance an animal can 384 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: get to warm up, they're going to do that on 385 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:11,400 Speaker 1: a south facing slope. And on the south facing slope 386 00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: because it has the most direct sunlight throughout the entire winter, 387 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,720 Speaker 1: that snow is gonna melt first. They're not gonna have 388 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: to walk through it, so it's easier for him to travel. Uh, 389 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,920 Speaker 1: they're gonna stay warm, and they're gonna expose themselves maybe 390 00:20:24,960 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: a little bit outside of their bedding area to get 391 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:31,359 Speaker 1: some of that sunlight to help them warm up. So 392 00:20:31,359 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 1: so those south facing ridges and hills and um, anything 393 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: that's getting a lot of sunlight is going to be up. 394 00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:40,560 Speaker 1: And like what you saw when when we were shed 395 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 1: hunting on the last trip that we went on, Uh, 396 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: that's where a majority of the of the sheds were at. Yeah. No, 397 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,639 Speaker 1: it's a huge point. I'm glad you brought that up. 398 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:55,080 Speaker 1: The south facing slopes are so important. Um And and 399 00:20:55,160 --> 00:20:58,159 Speaker 1: just like you mentioned, that's where the snow disappears first. 400 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: So you're gonna find deer there in your you're gonna 401 00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:03,119 Speaker 1: find sheds in our case when we were shed hunting, 402 00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: because there was so much snow still present, those are 403 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: really the only spots that we could even see if 404 00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: there was an antler because of that snow. So they 405 00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:14,640 Speaker 1: came in. They came in super handy. Um. Another um, 406 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:16,439 Speaker 1: as we're on that same topic, another one of the 407 00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:19,199 Speaker 1: sheds that we found on one of those sort of 408 00:21:19,200 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: on one of those ridges was that really nice antler 409 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 1: that you found Dan at the fence crossing. And we 410 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:27,080 Speaker 1: kind of talked about this as you found it. The 411 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: fact that so often we hear about people saying you 412 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: look for sheds at fence crossings or creek crossings. Um. 413 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 1: And I don't think I had ever found one there. 414 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: And I think, if I remember correctly, you said you 415 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,080 Speaker 1: hadn't either. Is that right, That's right, I've never found 416 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:45,000 Speaker 1: you know, I've had buddies where a buckle jump the 417 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:47,680 Speaker 1: fence and they'll find the match set laying right next 418 00:21:47,720 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 1: to it. So I mean, obviously, guys like us, we're 419 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: not that we're not that lucky. But yeah, that that's 420 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 1: exactly what it looked like. He was, you know, coming 421 00:21:56,800 --> 00:21:58,560 Speaker 1: out of that draw and he jumped the fence and 422 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:02,440 Speaker 1: uh popped. Yeah, And it makes perfect sense. And I think, 423 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely a good place to look. Even 424 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:07,040 Speaker 1: though you know we haven't personally found many that way, 425 00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure there are a lot of sheds that end 426 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: up on the ground because of that that knock when 427 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: a deer jumps over something. So again, that's a good tip, 428 00:22:15,359 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: you know, focusing on those spots where deer forced to 429 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,160 Speaker 1: jump over a creek or a fence or down tree 430 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: or something like that. UM. Always look for those areas 431 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 1: where an antler might be might be jarred loose. UM. 432 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,639 Speaker 1: And then you know, there's always the occasional sheds that 433 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,480 Speaker 1: dropped for no apparent reason. Like when I was down 434 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: in southern Ohio in the middle of a bean field, 435 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 1: I found a perfect match set. It was a little, tiny, 436 00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:40,840 Speaker 1: dinky six point, but it was my first match that 437 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 1: I ever found. And you know, he'd just been feeding there, 438 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: sitting there in the middle field, eating, and then I 439 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 1: can just imagine this little yearly six pointer sitting there 440 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 1: and all of a sudden just feeling this weight drop 441 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,080 Speaker 1: off of his head and him looking around like what 442 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,800 Speaker 1: the heck just happened. That's kind of what I imagine, 443 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: and I've seen. I don't know if this is an 444 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:05,920 Speaker 1: old wives tale or but I have literally come up 445 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:09,640 Speaker 1: to a buck while shed hunting that had a little 446 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,359 Speaker 1: blood coming off of his head. He was standing in 447 00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:14,199 Speaker 1: the middle of the cornfield and he looked like he 448 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:18,960 Speaker 1: was dazed. And I guess what from what others have 449 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,960 Speaker 1: told me, I don't know if this is true or not, 450 00:23:21,359 --> 00:23:24,960 Speaker 1: but if they once they lose their antlers that pops 451 00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: off their head, whether it's one or two, they become 452 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:34,240 Speaker 1: disoriented for a while. And and I'm not joking. I 453 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:38,720 Speaker 1: walked up probably ten ft from this buck just to 454 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: you know, I thought he was going to run away, 455 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,200 Speaker 1: but I kept getting closer and getting closer, and he 456 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,720 Speaker 1: just looked at me like he was like he was dazed. 457 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,360 Speaker 1: And it wasn't a very big buck, probably a two 458 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: year old, and he had blood dripping off his head 459 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,879 Speaker 1: from where, you know, out of his pedicle, and I 460 00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:59,439 Speaker 1: assumed he just lost his antler. And that kind of 461 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: confer for me that when it happens, they become a 462 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,760 Speaker 1: little bit you know, this is off subject, but a 463 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 1: little bit disoriented. So that's kind of weird. That's that's 464 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 1: really interesting. It's funny you mentioned that because I think 465 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:15,159 Speaker 1: it was last weekend, Um, I think last week and 466 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: I was shed hunting in northern Iowa, and we came 467 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,600 Speaker 1: across a situation kind of similar to that. I didn't 468 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,280 Speaker 1: actually see it, but one of the people with me, 469 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:27,159 Speaker 1: Um Kendall, saw a small buck that has shut its 470 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:29,439 Speaker 1: antlers that was just sitting next to a tree, and 471 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:31,439 Speaker 1: like you said, it just looked disoriented. We thought it 472 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: was sick, Um, but she walked pretty close to it, 473 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: and it didn't jump up. It didn't, you know, do 474 00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: anything like a normal deer would. And I wonder. We 475 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:42,400 Speaker 1: didn't think of this at the time, but I wonder 476 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: if maybe that's what happened. Maybe it just shed its 477 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: antlers relatively recently, and I was still kind of recovering 478 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:54,280 Speaker 1: from that. Yeah. And interestingly, just across the valley, maybe 479 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:56,240 Speaker 1: a hundred yards away from where we found that deer, 480 00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:59,960 Speaker 1: we found four sheds, which any one of them could 481 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,920 Speaker 1: been from this deer because it was, you know, probably 482 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: a year and a half deer. So that makes me wonder. 483 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 1: Speaking speaking of that spot where he found those four sheds, Um, 484 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 1: it brings up another point that I wanted to mention, 485 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 1: and that's talking about just how this past winter affected 486 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:20,679 Speaker 1: how deer shed their antlers. This super tough winter, a 487 00:25:20,760 --> 00:25:24,480 Speaker 1: long winter, heavy snow, bitterly cold. I think this did 488 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: a couple of different things that has impacted shed hunting 489 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,919 Speaker 1: this year. Number One, because of how tough the winter was, 490 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,199 Speaker 1: I think for the most part, deer lost their antlers 491 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:36,000 Speaker 1: a little bit sooner um. But number two, what I 492 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,720 Speaker 1: think impacted shed hunting the most was that because of 493 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,280 Speaker 1: all the snow, deer were much more hurted up than 494 00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:44,639 Speaker 1: some years. I know in past years when I have 495 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: gone down to Iowa, there's been some really mild winners 496 00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: and there was just no reason for deer to all 497 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: be in one general area. They were spread all over 498 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: the place. There was food everywhere. It was pretty lacks 499 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:57,440 Speaker 1: of days ago. But this year, with a really tough winter, 500 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:01,800 Speaker 1: we I believed that deer would be more concentrated in 501 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,119 Speaker 1: certain areas, and we found that when it came to 502 00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:08,520 Speaker 1: shed hunting. On two different days, we searched all day 503 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,760 Speaker 1: and hardly found any antlers, and at the end of 504 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: each day we came on. In both cases it was 505 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: a ridge with betting right next to a cut cornfield, 506 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 1: and we came in these two spots and found the 507 00:26:19,320 --> 00:26:22,880 Speaker 1: first day on one ridge seven sheds within like an hour, 508 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:24,919 Speaker 1: hour and a half, and the second day, I think 509 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,480 Speaker 1: we found four or five within like thirty minutes. Um. 510 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure that's because the fact that these 511 00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:33,880 Speaker 1: deer were really concentrated in these core areas that had 512 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: good betting, really close to good food, and they didn't 513 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 1: do anything except for go back from that betting to feeding, 514 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,480 Speaker 1: exerting as little energy as possible. Um. So that was 515 00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,000 Speaker 1: an interesting kind of thing that we found this year, 516 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:47,680 Speaker 1: and I think if you're still shed hunting this year, 517 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: that's something to consider that these antlers are probably gonna 518 00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:54,240 Speaker 1: be a little more concentrated than the past. And especially 519 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:55,959 Speaker 1: the fact that in some areas of snow is just 520 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: starting to melt and you know, people are just getting 521 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,639 Speaker 1: out shed hunting. I think we're going to find that 522 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,359 Speaker 1: more and more of the next couple of weeks. Yeah, 523 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: And that's uh, I agree. I mean, they're gonna take 524 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,720 Speaker 1: with this winner, they're gonna take the path of least resistance, 525 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: and you're you're probably even gonna find them betting closer 526 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:18,520 Speaker 1: to food sources. Um. And that deer that we saw 527 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 1: while driving back to my parents place after that shed hunt, 528 00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: it was a perfect example of how harsh this winter was. 529 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: I mean you could see you could almost see through 530 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: this deer. He was so skinny. Yeah, it's it's sad 531 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: to see that this was. This is definitely a tough 532 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:35,000 Speaker 1: winner out a lot of deer, that's for sure. And typically, 533 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:37,640 Speaker 1: you know, they're able to get to the egg fields 534 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,679 Speaker 1: and you know, use their nose to find some food, 535 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: even dig into the grass or into the field. But 536 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 1: you know, this year, with so much snow, I don't 537 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,480 Speaker 1: even know how some of these deer herds survived. I 538 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: I tell you what, I wouldn't want to be a deer. Yeah, 539 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,040 Speaker 1: I agree, that's for sure. It was brutal. It's just 540 00:27:59,040 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 1: the word that keeps coming up to me. It was 541 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 1: just absolute brutal. But by that said, what do you 542 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: think Dan, any other any other pretty good shed hunting 543 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,480 Speaker 1: tips do you think we should share today? No? Uh, 544 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:15,760 Speaker 1: And it's just like it's kind of just like hunting. Um, 545 00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:20,600 Speaker 1: you have yourself and another point no, point A and 546 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 1: point B that youve got to come across it. And 547 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 1: you know, although you can, you know, staff the odds 548 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: in your favor, you know, walk embedding areas and food 549 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,920 Speaker 1: sources and all that stuff that doesn't mean you're gonna 550 00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:37,240 Speaker 1: find any sheds, So cover as much ground as you 551 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,600 Speaker 1: possibly can. For me, this year was limited. I only 552 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: got to go out a couple of times and aside 553 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: from what I typically do UM and that's just pound 554 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:50,240 Speaker 1: the ground as you know, as long as I can. Unfortunately, 555 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: this year I didn't have to UM cover as much 556 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:55,880 Speaker 1: areas you can and and that's going to increase your 557 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 1: odds for for sheds. Absolutely. That's that's the truth of 558 00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:05,360 Speaker 1: right there. I think two other things i'd add um 559 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,040 Speaker 1: Number one, In addition to pounding the ground and putting 560 00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: a lot of miles on it, what I always try 561 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 1: to remember is that even if you cover a lot 562 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:17,520 Speaker 1: of miles, if you're not focused on trying to see antlers, 563 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: if you're looking up at the sky, or if you're 564 00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,360 Speaker 1: watching deer on a way, or if you're chit chatting 565 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,120 Speaker 1: the whole time and not actually constantly scanning the ground 566 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,959 Speaker 1: ahead of you into the sides, that if you're not 567 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,760 Speaker 1: focused on that task, you're gonna miss antlers. You just 568 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: you have to be focused, and with that you need 569 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,760 Speaker 1: to stay optimistic. Like we talked about earlier, you know, 570 00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:41,000 Speaker 1: you can walk for hours or days and never find anything. 571 00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 1: And it's tough when that happens not to just kind 572 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: of get disenchanted and and to lose that focus. So 573 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:50,720 Speaker 1: I'm constantly trying to remind myself to stay optimistic, to 574 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: stay focused, because you know, just like hunting, it can 575 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:56,040 Speaker 1: all change in a second, so you gotta stay on, 576 00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,840 Speaker 1: stay on task. Um. And then the other thing that 577 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,920 Speaker 1: I just thought of now is, in addition to looking 578 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: ahead of you and right, you know, right beneath you, 579 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:08,720 Speaker 1: try to get different angles. So sometimes that means kneeling 580 00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 1: down or maybe standing up on top of a down tree, 581 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 1: or up on a hillside or a berm or something. 582 00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,960 Speaker 1: Try to get a different perspective because lots of times, 583 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,240 Speaker 1: you know, antlers can be hidden behind so many different things, 584 00:30:20,280 --> 00:30:23,360 Speaker 1: behind a clump of grass, behind a tree trunk, whatever 585 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,600 Speaker 1: it might be, it's tough to find him. Um, So 586 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: get a different perspective. Another thing I'll do too, is 587 00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: every couple of minutes, I always stop and just turn around. 588 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,360 Speaker 1: I'll try to stop and just do a slow spin 589 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,480 Speaker 1: and just look in all different directions because again it's 590 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:40,440 Speaker 1: that new perspective and occasionally taking a little extra time 591 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,080 Speaker 1: to look around. Sometimes can pay off. Um. It didn't 592 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:47,800 Speaker 1: really help me this year, but it helped. It helped 593 00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:50,240 Speaker 1: people in my group. At one point, we were crossing 594 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:53,280 Speaker 1: a fence and we had just stepped over this fence 595 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,600 Speaker 1: and we're the three of us, Me, Ross, and Kendall 596 00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:58,720 Speaker 1: were just standing there, chit chatting, and all of a sudden, 597 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,360 Speaker 1: Kendall goes, oh, there's a shed. And there was a 598 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,840 Speaker 1: shed literally no more than like two ft from my foot. 599 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:07,200 Speaker 1: It was right there, right underneath me the whole time, 600 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: but I just never saw it. So I guess sometimes 601 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: it pays to take some extra time and look around 602 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,440 Speaker 1: because we definitely miss more than we see. I think, oh, yeah, 603 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,120 Speaker 1: for sure. UM. And to be honest with you, I 604 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:22,040 Speaker 1: think one of my one of the five, I think 605 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:25,040 Speaker 1: it's like my fourth biggest shed I've ever found. Um. 606 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: I stepped over to this down tree and uh, I 607 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,000 Speaker 1: was walking and it was the wind was blown in 608 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 1: my face, so you know, don't ever pee into the wind. 609 00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: I turned around to go to you know, to take 610 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: a leak, and there's there's a shed right on the 611 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: opposite side of this log where it looked like the 612 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: deer was bedded, and there there it was and I'm 613 00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,440 Speaker 1: just like, oh, that's that's cool. Good thing. I a 614 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:55,920 Speaker 1: good thing nature called. That's awesome. Just like my story 615 00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: last week talking about how I got my deer this December. Exactly. 616 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:02,600 Speaker 1: That might be the trick to it. I'm finding out, 617 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,720 Speaker 1: drink lots of water before you go out into the woods. 618 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,080 Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. That's what that is. 619 00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,920 Speaker 1: Horrible advice that as well as coffee, that'll make you 620 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,400 Speaker 1: have to use the bathroom in a different way. Exactly. 621 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,200 Speaker 1: Oh jeez, I guess kind of on a Now that 622 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: we're on the kind of goofy note, maybe we should 623 00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,320 Speaker 1: divulge the full details of my river accident. What do 624 00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:30,920 Speaker 1: you think? I say, go for it, man Um, I 625 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 1: thought I lost you there for a second. Mark, Yeah, 626 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,000 Speaker 1: you know, and I have to blame I blame you 627 00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:38,760 Speaker 1: for this. I want you to know Dan that I 628 00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,680 Speaker 1: would I'm the kind of guy that's I'm risk risk averse, 629 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: I think would be the proper word. I usually would 630 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:49,440 Speaker 1: not cross a frozen river, but you know, here I 631 00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,720 Speaker 1: am shed hunting with my buddy and Iowa. I don't 632 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,720 Speaker 1: want to look like a wuss, and you're trudging read 633 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: across this frozen river. So of course I had to 634 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 1: do it. But it's funny, is you know? As you remember, 635 00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 1: I grabbed my camera. I'm like, all right, I'm gonna 636 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:05,720 Speaker 1: film you Dan. Maybe you know I thought it would 637 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:07,000 Speaker 1: be funny. You might fall in a little bit, I'll 638 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,520 Speaker 1: get it on film. Well, of course you didn't fall in. 639 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,120 Speaker 1: And then as soon as you crossed, I decided i'd go, 640 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 1: and being what I what I thought was smart, I said, okay, 641 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 1: I see down here as a narrower, a narrow part 642 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,479 Speaker 1: of the river, I'll cross there. It looks easier. And 643 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: literally I think I told you sorry, but literally, just 644 00:33:26,480 --> 00:33:29,280 Speaker 1: before I stepped foot on that ice, I thought to myself, 645 00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:32,200 Speaker 1: you know what, Mark, You know that where a river narrows, 646 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: it cuts deeper, so it's probably deeper water. But I 647 00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,000 Speaker 1: don't know why whatever, For whatever reason, I took that 648 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: common sense and pushed it away and said I'm going 649 00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:46,080 Speaker 1: for it anyways, and uh, what the rest is history? 650 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,120 Speaker 1: I think that was. I was walking walking across the 651 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: river and what you what did you hear? Just a 652 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:57,000 Speaker 1: big crash or I heard I heard crack splash, and 653 00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,640 Speaker 1: I turned back and I didn't see you, because you 654 00:34:00,640 --> 00:34:03,640 Speaker 1: know that there's that uprooted tree that was blocking you, 655 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:10,760 Speaker 1: and my first thought was man down, first responder mode. 656 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:14,400 Speaker 1: So like I here, I am running up, You're running 657 00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,200 Speaker 1: along the bank of the river, and I see that 658 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:20,520 Speaker 1: your belly crawling out of the high school, and I'm like, 659 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:23,200 Speaker 1: the first thing I think of is all the training 660 00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,160 Speaker 1: that I had in boy Scouts, and I'm just like, hey, man, 661 00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,080 Speaker 1: if I need to save Mark's life, I'm gonna have 662 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: to get naked and use my body heat to warm 663 00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,719 Speaker 1: him up, and you know, I gotta do what I 664 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: gotta do. Luckily, get that bad Thank thank goodness, it 665 00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:39,839 Speaker 1: didn't get come to that, because this whole story would 666 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 1: be a lot more awkward. Exactly. Oh jeez, Yeah, it 667 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,400 Speaker 1: was something else. Like you said, I I took a 668 00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,400 Speaker 1: step right behind that that little log that was sticking 669 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:52,280 Speaker 1: out of the river, and I just plummeted. It cracked 670 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,080 Speaker 1: right through. I dropped all the way down to my 671 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: arm pits, and actually my right side went in all 672 00:34:58,080 --> 00:34:59,680 Speaker 1: the way to my neck and it was just my 673 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: left arm that was sticking out. My left arm and 674 00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: my head was all that was sticking out of the water. 675 00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: Everything else went down, and I I kind of freaked out. 676 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,160 Speaker 1: I thought I was going under, but luckily as they will, 677 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,759 Speaker 1: pull myself up and then, like you said, I kind 678 00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:16,160 Speaker 1: of belly crawled across the ice. You know, I learned. 679 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:17,920 Speaker 1: I don't know where I learned that, but Price saw 680 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: in the news, you know, spread your weight out on 681 00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 1: the ice so that you don't crack through again, and 682 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 1: it worked. So that was my That was my excellent 683 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,200 Speaker 1: ice adventure. I guess we're both we're both alive, so 684 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: we can look back at this and laugh. But the 685 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:40,040 Speaker 1: lesson learned is don't what don't cross at the narrow 686 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,440 Speaker 1: part of the river, right if you're gonna fall in 687 00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:44,880 Speaker 1: the river going after sheds, at least falling up to 688 00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:47,600 Speaker 1: your knees and not up to your neck. Yep. Absolutely. 689 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 1: If if you guys that the listeners get nothing else 690 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,480 Speaker 1: from this episode, I hope that's what they take home 691 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:57,040 Speaker 1: with him today. I would say that the lesson is 692 00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,239 Speaker 1: no shed is worth your life, but I don't think 693 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,719 Speaker 1: I can honestly say that. Yeah, you know, there's some 694 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: pretty cool sheds out there that you know, if I 695 00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:08,200 Speaker 1: if I was you know, if we were on the 696 00:36:08,239 --> 00:36:10,799 Speaker 1: other side of that river, then I just crossed and 697 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,839 Speaker 1: then I saw like a ninety inch side on the 698 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:16,200 Speaker 1: other on the other bank that I had just been on. 699 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,560 Speaker 1: I'd probably run across it again to get it. I'd 700 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: risk it. Everybody I know, I know a lot of 701 00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,840 Speaker 1: people who I'm wonderable. Yeah. Yeah, it's and it's a 702 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,520 Speaker 1: it's an addiction, but it's a lot of fun. Um 703 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,399 Speaker 1: And I think you know, we're coming up on time here, 704 00:36:29,520 --> 00:36:32,080 Speaker 1: so that should probably wrap it up for us. But 705 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,359 Speaker 1: you know, shed hunting is a ton of fun, as 706 00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,680 Speaker 1: we discussed, and there's some real benefits to finding antlers 707 00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,319 Speaker 1: in addition to just having fun, like we talked about. Um. 708 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,520 Speaker 1: And given the snow and the fact that in a 709 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:46,920 Speaker 1: lot of areas just starting to mount now, you know, 710 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,680 Speaker 1: there's still a good couple of weeks of sdhuting. So 711 00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:50,839 Speaker 1: I hope that all you guys, all your listeners are 712 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:52,799 Speaker 1: able to get out there the next weekend or two 713 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,120 Speaker 1: and find some more antlers and hopefully these tips will 714 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,919 Speaker 1: help you. Um. You know, as always wanted to thank 715 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,040 Speaker 1: you all so much for taking the time to join us. 716 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,600 Speaker 1: We we really really truly appreciate it, and I hope 717 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,600 Speaker 1: that you've been enjoying the podcast so far. This is 718 00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,960 Speaker 1: only our second episode, but I think we've got some 719 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,239 Speaker 1: great stuff in store for all the episodes to come. 720 00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,480 Speaker 1: So thanks for joining us, and if you are enjoying, 721 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: we really appreciate if you could head over to iTunes 722 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,600 Speaker 1: and leave a quick review. It means the world. It 723 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,799 Speaker 1: helps the show out and um, you know, we would 724 00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:27,000 Speaker 1: really appreciate that. Speaking of giving out thank you, I 725 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,040 Speaker 1: want to take a quick second to also thank our 726 00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,399 Speaker 1: partners who who make this show possible. 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