NO SHEDS????????

[Nelly]

OK I need some serious help. Yah see, during deer season here in Oregon I was hunting this big ol' south facing hill side sidehilling it. And my hunting buddy was a a few hundred yards north of me on the ridge line. I ended up not doing too much hunting because I kept finding ALL these sheds and they kept taking away all my concentration seeing how they were the first sheds I have ever found. All in all I think I found around 15 sheds some old and some new. So me and my buddy decided to head on out there this last weekend just to get away a bit. The entrance to the place is an old 2 track road and there was only our tracks from deer season. This time we were there I didn't see any fresh sign of people being in there, but needless to say we found One old @ss shed and that was it and we hiked all over the place for 5 hours. WHAT GIVES does anyone have a clue????????? I was thinking maybe the deer did not have to winter there this year seeing it was not to rough of a winter here in Oregon.. Oh also a couple of the sheds I did find (3 to be exact)look like they came from a white tail. I will try and post the pics this weekend. Please let me have your insite I'm very confused....
Thanks Curtis

 

[browtine]

My first guess would be the snow levels were different this year...to much snow and they may be lower..No snow and they may be higher. I would say fluke if you found all the sheds from the same year. But being that you found old and new, I bet they wintered really close. check other south facing slopes close by. To bad you didnt scout the area in jan-feb to see if they wintered there.
Later, Brandon