Boulder fields?

[patience]

How often you you guys find antlers in boulder fields or big rock pile areas? Seems it would be good cover from the wind but every time I've checked them I've come up empty handed.

Anyone have a different results?

 

[bonepicker]

I've never had much luck in rocky areas. Sometimes around rimrocks I'll find an occasional antler but not much.Probably because a field of boulders would have less feed than say a field of grass Boulders are just not the best wintering grounds. As an example, a Mahogany on a hillside offers good shelter but it also can be eaten and has feed and often even dry (therefore warmer) ground underneath it. I'd probably prefer to live in an edible house if I could.

However, if you are in an area with alot of boulder fields or rocky patches and little vegitative cover, the animals won't have much choice so spend time comparing the feed options and, more importantly, spend some quality time behind a pair of binoculars trying to find the best boulder fields, the ones that the animals are in during the winter.

 

[fatrooster]

I have a boulder field that is a wintering grounds. I purposely do not post pictures of it. I think it depends on the feed. fatrooster.

 

[ARCHERYBUG]

COME ON DREW. POST SOME PICTURES !!!!!!!

 

[JACO]

While the three of us were out shed hunting, my brother found a big six point elk shed in a boulder field, right in the middle of the rocks. About an hour later my dad found the other side in the bottom of a swampy creek bed, about 400 yards away. Pretty weird. It was about a 320 bull, perfectly symmetrical brown 6x6 set.

Nocked N Loaded

 

[IDBoneCollector]

I have had very little luck in the heavy rocks but when i did find something it was usually a very nice shed i would say if you are going for quanity dont look in the rocks