What I'm looking for when I'm hunting are areas that are high traffic deer areas.

So you're looking for their food sources and then their bedding areas and essentially looking for the antlers everywhere in between coats.

To find a shed.

You have to look where deer are when they drop those antlers.

my name is Alex Comstock.

Today we are out doing some shed hunting.

Essentially, what we're doing is looking for some deer antlers.

So every year, deer drop their antlers in the winter, the springtime kind of January, February, March timeframe.

And then they grow new ones the next year.

I shed hunt for a variety of reasons.

The first two being just like.

It's fun to find antlers.

I mean, to it's fun to learn about certain bucks.

So there's a lot of bucks that I watch year after year after year.

And if I could find their antlers, I can learn more about them.

And three, it's just really good exercise and it's a good excuse to be outside.

something that I'm always looking for some kind of thermal cover.

So deer like to bed or they can get some warmth, especially in the wintertime when there's snow and everything like that.

So back here we got a pocket of cedars.

If I see cedars I definitely can always check those out or pine trees or anything like that, because all typically congregate to those thermal cover areas like a cedar tree, a pine tree in bed under it.

And when they're bedding, they're they're spending longer amounts of time there, therefore giving it a better chance of an hour to fall off that area.

And I spend a lot of time walking tons of miles looking for antlers and you could go ten, 15 miles in between sheds, or you could walk a couple mile walk, could find a bunch of.

Once you get into a good spot and time it out.

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