First Desert Shed...

[bigorange]

It's not much, but found my first desert shed this weekend. Actually only my second shed ever...I just don't seem to find them often. Probably a combination of not being out as much at the right time of the year and also I tend to be looking for animals more than looking down for sheds. I had thought about keeping an eye out for sheds on this stalk as well as looking down more often for rattlers since it was August in the desert.

 

Anyway...my buddy jumped a couple of mulie bucks and we were tracking them out through the flats when I came across this shed. It was laying next to some backpacks and trash from illegals so I can't help but wonder if one of them had picked it up and dropped it there. It was right next to a fence, so may have just been coincidence. Still brown on the side that was to the ground and white and cracked on the upper side. No rodent damage although the brow tine and main beam are broken...I'm guessing that could have been before it was dropped though. Who knows.

 

 

 

 

I don't know how long sheds last in the desert...do you think this is a few months old from earlier this year or from last year? coolest thing to me is how much I hunted this area last year I may have seen or even stalked this same deer. Who knows it could have even been one of the 2 bucks we were tracking when I found it.

 

Now that I've found one, I may try to get out in the same area next spring and see if I can find more. I think I'm hooked.

[200"mulie]

pretty interesting shed. thanks for sharing....even though im hooked i havent gone out and looked yet.

[GRONG]

I would say it's been laying out there for 2-3 years based on what I see there.

[rancilio]

Sheds are cool. Where were you to have backpacks and trash? I thought that no way anything is carried past the Huachuca Mountains. We seemingly have all their clothes, backpacks and waterbottles. I cannot imagine that they have anything left after dumping it here. The amount of trash in our wilderness area is sickening.

[bigorange]

This was in 36a. Plenty of trash there unfortunately.

[CouesWhitetail]

Cool find, any shed is a fun one to find! thx for posting.

[PRDATR]

Where were you to have backpacks and trash? I thought that no way anything is carried past the Huachuca Mountains. We seemingly have all their clothes, backpacks and waterbottles. I cannot imagine that they have anything left after dumping it here. The amount of trash in our wilderness area is sickening.

 

I have seen lots of trash like that west of Red Rock and in the river bottom south of the town Picacho.