Well, as many of you know I no longer head up NHSHC. Although I am still involved, I play a much smaller role assisting James Smith, jr the new owner/President. James is a hell of a guy and has a fire in his belly for our sport unequaled by anyone that I have met in many years. He has many new ideas and a clear goal in mind in what direction the club can and must go in to best serve the shed hunters of NH. James is an official scorer for both the NH Antler and Skull Trophy Club headed up by Roscoe Blaisdell and the NE Big Bucks Club, so I urge all of you to contact James about scoring your sheds. In coming days He and I will do a little shedding around the old farm just to get our feet wet.
And now for today's adventures. I met up with a lifelong friend Chris Palermo up in his home turf to go on the first antler hunt this season on the hunt for the sheds for his double main beam buck. This deer is by far the biggest bodied buck I have ever seen on digital trail cam. Given the fact I have stood where the pic was taken, I was blown away at his size. I would guess dressed weight at 250 anyways! The rack looks average until you factor in his body proportions.
It may be a little early but who knows. The terrain reads like a text book on where to find some soggy bottom old swamp beast, hemlock swamps that go on for an eternity with mixed hardwoods that surround in the highlands and open fields to the northeast and apple trees and rural lawns mixed in here and there. We first ran a ridge that fed down into a swamp (one of many I mentioned before) I found a rub line crossing a bottle neck where Chris will be placing a bow stand next season. We covered the area but judging by the pink doe pee the buck's testosterone had not dropped enough yet because of the does still being breedable.
We then noticed a snowshoe hare be-bopping in and out of some hemlocks and seeing that Chris loves to eat bunnies, we put the stalk on. Well after some masterful stalking and some careful aiming ....he missed. We chased the little guy around for near on twenty minutes and then Chris decided to eat pizza instead.
All in all, it was a good day because we now have a better understanding of how that bruiser is moving . I just wish we had a better understanding of his antlers. but I will go back in a few weeks
And now for today's adventures. I met up with a lifelong friend Chris Palermo up in his home turf to go on the first antler hunt this season on the hunt for the sheds for his double main beam buck. This deer is by far the biggest bodied buck I have ever seen on digital trail cam. Given the fact I have stood where the pic was taken, I was blown away at his size. I would guess dressed weight at 250 anyways! The rack looks average until you factor in his body proportions.
It may be a little early but who knows. The terrain reads like a text book on where to find some soggy bottom old swamp beast, hemlock swamps that go on for an eternity with mixed hardwoods that surround in the highlands and open fields to the northeast and apple trees and rural lawns mixed in here and there. We first ran a ridge that fed down into a swamp (one of many I mentioned before) I found a rub line crossing a bottle neck where Chris will be placing a bow stand next season. We covered the area but judging by the pink doe pee the buck's testosterone had not dropped enough yet because of the does still being breedable.
We then noticed a snowshoe hare be-bopping in and out of some hemlocks and seeing that Chris loves to eat bunnies, we put the stalk on. Well after some masterful stalking and some careful aiming ....he missed. We chased the little guy around for near on twenty minutes and then Chris decided to eat pizza instead.
All in all, it was a good day because we now have a better understanding of how that bruiser is moving . I just wish we had a better understanding of his antlers. but I will go back in a few weeks
