Searching about the woods for shed antlers seems to be a popular pastime.

Is there a forum on AR where that would be addressed, or would a separate forum be appropriate?

If I recall, another hunting website had a forum devoted strictly to shed hunting, and it seemed to get a fair amount of activity.

BTW, when I first saw the "shed hunting" title to that forum, I thought it meant hunting from sheds--like blinds, or something!

I would think the American Hunting Forum would be the place for that, because it seems to be an American/North American concept.

I personally think it should be illegal on public land. I believe some states have made it illegal. Wyoming and Montana have seasons for it, at least that helps to keep the nonsense down.

Here in Germany it is only legal if you have permission from the owner of the hunting area.

1. It disrupts wildlife, as people commonly are in the winter feeding areas to look for sheds.

2. They often use dogs to locate sheds, and this increases the stress on wildlife.

3. It creates a "poaching scenario, as it is legal for sheds to be sold in some areas, so people are willing to risk quite a bit for the dough.

4. Other wildlife get nutrients from eating the sheds, primarily beaver, porcupine and other rodents.

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I personally think it should be illegal on public land.

That is up to the individual state, but there are a lot of folks that hunt private properties that make a pretty big deal about hunting sheds.

When one goes shed hunting, do you shoot from outside or inside the shed

Depends on the time of day and what you plan on doing with the shed!

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Believe it or not ratting in sheds and barns with packs of terriers is a pretty popular sport in the UK ! Especially 'up north'!

A different meaning to shed hunting !

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Do you ever go after Hares with Ferrets?

We go after rabbits with ferrets. Our hares live above ground, trying to keep up with them we can shed a few lbs as we can't use dogs on them now.

I remember reading articles many years ago about people finding warrens/colonies where the hares nested and placing nets over all the escape holes and then turning female ferrets into the holes and the hares would run into the nets.

If I remember correctly, they always carried a male ferret along so if one of the females made a kill in the burrows, they would turn the male loose and he would run the female out.

I guess your hares are like the Jackrabbit and maybe the Snowshoe here in America. Are your rabbits similar to our cottontails?

I'm getting too old for digging out ferrets that's laid up after a feed.
The experts have techniques to use them to best advantage and account for ten of thousands of them. But it can ocassionaly end up digging it out.
The ferret will often have a tracking collar to help locate it in the warren.
They do sound-like your cotton tails,which would be a good visual description of our rabbits.jc
http://www.how-to-hunt-rabbit....hunting-rabbits.html

Thank You for posting that.

Our JackRabbits are the equivalent to your hares.

Jackrabbits and snowshoes are hares, no bones about it.

I believe we have some European brown hares in Eastern Canada that were introduced by someone about 100 years ago.

Australia has a plague of British feral bunnies and quite a few brown hares as well.

Here in Germany the rabbits got wiped out by a disease, the name escapes me right now of the disease.

Hares are still common, there are a couple that live in the helicopter pad area near my office. Fun guys to watch.

Could it have been Tularemia?

Myxomatosis has been decimating rabbits here since the fifties. jc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxomatosis

I was shed hunting this morning and spotted a huge Boone and Crockett shed. Blew my shed call and waited, repeated this several times, but couldn't get the shed to move into a position for a shot.