“Shed season” is finally here. Well, one could take that a couple ways. Some would guess that we are preparing for spring cleanup now that winter is on the run and it’s finally March. But many others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail ...

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can answer ...

We’ve all got busy schedules, so when it comes to maximizing our shed-hunting efforts, it’s natural to ask, When do deer shed their antlers? And, ideally, we’d like as precise an answer as possible.

Throughout the winter months, whitetail bucks cast off or “shed” their antlers in response to dropping testosterone levels ...

FOREST RIVER, N.D. – If this was a baseball game, the regular starters would have been absent, only to be replaced by three rookie fill-ins who came off the bench to take their place. It wasn’t a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here in the Northeast and the Midwest, the 2025 whitetail rut is set to peak in early November, in sharp contrast to last year’s ...

SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP — Joe Shead cringed when a visitor asked what he might do with some of the 1,000 deer antler sheds he’s collected over the years. Maybe make them into a chandelier, or cribbage ...

If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun. Sitting still for hours on end in the freezing cold, hushing them to be quieter, is likely not the best way to build a hunter. Start ...

To the casual passerby, it would appear that Joe Shead might be disoriented. Or, perhaps that he has lost his car keys and is trying to track them down. He moves deliberately across the snowy Duluth ...