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GMbuck
04-01-2009, 01:00 PM
Found a matched 7pt. set today laying in/next to the median on I 71 south near exit 173. As I passed by, I saw the one on the road. I got a good enough look to see that it wasn't broken and had the base. With no deer carcass laying around, I decided to turn around at the next exit. When I stopped, I took pictures of the one in the road with my camera phone. As I turned to head back to my car, I saw the other side laying in the grass. I'll see if I can post the photo later.



parrish
04-01-2009, 01:09 PM
good eyes!!!!,....I wanna see the pics,...never heard of sheds being found there before.
deerhunt45
04-01-2009, 02:07 PM
Talk about lucky!! We'll look forward to the pics :coolgleamA:
riverdude
04-01-2009, 03:02 PM
Guess I have been looking in the wrong places. :D
Highway shed hunting sounds like it would not take as much engery as walking 5 miles in the woods. Pluse you can cover more ground faster. :D

Good eyes and Congrat's!
FinelyShedded
04-01-2009, 03:06 PM
My head is always on a swivel this time of year! Good eyes and congrats! We'll always take those ones.....Can't wait to see the pic's!
GMbuck
04-01-2009, 04:37 PM
One in the road
and both moments later on the floor of my car

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii201/GMbuck/0401091000a.jpg

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii201/GMbuck/0401091005.jpg
ap0317ah
04-01-2009, 05:43 PM
Good eyes.
Tom
uglykat26
04-01-2009, 05:47 PM
i found a single just after the 214 exit in belmont county on 70 a few years ago , i was pulled over cause a doe got hit and was wondering around ,when i followed her to the ditch to help the state trooper put the deer down i found a half an 8 point rack
FinelyShedded
04-01-2009, 07:29 PM
Really enjoyed the pic's! Congrats!!!!!!!
pjfishpa
04-01-2009, 08:04 PM
Good eyes! It's funny how you just pick them out of the scenery (sheds) once you get hooked on shed hunting! I found a nice single off 75 last year - my wife thought I was crazy but there it was big as day when we turned around and came back through.
GMbuck
04-01-2009, 08:54 PM
Thanks for all the congrats. That is at least the third time I've spotted them from my car. The first time was on purpose. On a moonlit evening the night before I saw a large herd of deer grazing in winter wheat amid a dusting of snow. In the herd there was more than one half rack. The next day I went back with my binos and spotted a small side within just a few minutes. The second one is the guy below. Fifty miles an hour talking to my wife on the cell phone. "Hold on honey, I think I just saw a great big shed..." It was sitting on the edge of a picked corn field.

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii201/GMbuck/IMG_0947.jpg
FinelyShedded
04-03-2009, 06:25 AM
Funny you mentioned it, but your stories are very similar to mine. My wife is always yelling at me because I'm scanning sheddy areas while driving. She's right you know, except when there's a straight stretch with no incoming traffic and no passengers!LOL
GMbuck
04-03-2009, 06:47 AM
Funny you mentioned it, but your stories are very similar to mine. My wife is always yelling at me because I'm scanning sheddy areas while driving. She's right you know, except when there's a straight stretch with no incoming traffic and no passengers!LOL

I told my wife I was worried about getting hit by a car and killed trying to pick up those sheds. I figured if I died at that time people would wonder what I was up to since I was supposed to be heading south. She said, "we'd know it was something like that". :bouncy:
Hoytmania
04-03-2009, 09:23 PM
My wife won't let me drive half the time because she says I'm watching the fields and the woods more than I watch the road.

I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. Great find. I wonder if the State Troopers could get you for pulling over without an emergency. Not that it would stop me from getting a shed. Just curious.
FinelyShedded
04-04-2009, 08:32 PM
That is alot of bone settin' on that pool table! Better have that table re-leveled after taking that thing off of it, SLATE or NOT! What did it score? and how long is the beam? My guess is in the 70's plus!
coonskinner
04-04-2009, 09:14 PM
those bucks might have got hit and their racks popped off...:D
GMbuck
04-05-2009, 08:50 AM
That is alot of bone settin' on that pool table! Better have that table re-leveled after taking that thing off of it, SLATE or NOT! What did it score? and how long is the beam? My guess is in the 70's plus!

That is one of the more impressive finds in my collection. I've never scored it. It has great mass and beam length, but no tines at all. The G-1 is the longest tine at about 8 1/2. Does have lots of character though.