Milk River 7 Year Shed!
Very cool guest blog from our bow brother Luke Strommen:
One day last week I found this shed that I have been hunting for 7 years!
Mike, remember the “7 Come 11 Buck”? He was a big 5x6 that I hunted for a couple of years. One day in 2004 we.got some awesome footage of him when I was hunting on camera for Mossy Oak. He came to within 40 yards and on the wrong side of a tree, too far for me to shoot with my recurve anyway. He would have scored 163 to 170.
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I went on to miss him twice that year. One day I stalked him on the ground and shot over him; the other time, on a rainy tree stand day, he heard the wet feathers on my arrow coming at him and spooked!
The next year I passed him up at 7 yards in his bed because I was pushing brush to some guy; I drew on him 3 times before he knew I was there, and then he spooked up!
He got poached that fall, in October 2005. We caught the guy; I snapped this picture of the buck in the officer’s truck. He went over 170".
I found his last right shed in the spring of 2005 (left in photo below) and have been looking for the other side ever since. I would go into the point where the buck hung out several times every spring, saying: “Today I am going to find 7 Come 11’s other side.” I found it 7 years later! I am stoked. The flood last spring and animals moved it around I guess. It has some chewing and cracks. Found it less than 200 yards from where I found the first one.—Luke
they were doing and what was under the blue tarp in thier rented blazer! They were trespassing on a posted road at the time. They tried to lie
about how and where they got it, but an afternoon of investigating proved them as liars. It was depressing....and even more depressing
was that they were slapped with a small fine and that's it! I caused enough ruckus to at least get the animal taken away from them, but they
told the judge "see ya next year" when they left. That's ridiculous. I know in some states, they take your vehicle, guns, rights, etc. Not here, I
wish it was like that. Poaching is a huge problem here.
The shed I just found (right on bottom picture, the left side of the buck) was missing a 7" to 8" G4 that had broken off at the base.
year I'll be happy! Not that it's an enormous shed (would have gone around 78" with the broken point), just that it meant a lot to me and I looked for it for so long. Now, if I can only find the set of sheds from a buck that was killed in 1994! He went around 214" non-typical if I remember right and it is estimated that he was as much as 230"+ the year before...no one found his sheds. Not likely I'll find them, but it keeps me in the woods looking! We are spoiled here,
we don't get the varmint chews like my friends from back east as was mentioned. People up here have found sheds that were dozens of years
old. Pretty cool. Man, hope you all have some good shedd'n this spring!