Spent some time doing shed training with Macy a few months back and have yet to have any success up until this weekend. We hit the woods early to try and find out what the turkeys were up to and sat until 8 without hearing any flydowns or vocal birds. I've found a large number of rubs here so it seemed a good spot to let Macy try and find some sheds, and with the temp in the 30s it was way too cold to sit still any longer. I let her range out and tried to stay along the edges where I thought rublines were and sure enough she found something within 20 minutes of getting up! Her first find was a small 8 pt with both horns and skull attached, pretty clean but still had some hair around the horn bases and wasn't tore up at all.
We continued heading back to the jeep and I could see her ahead trying to drag something back to me, I assumed it was a piece of trash or something until I got up to her and saw another full rack, this one a massive 8 with a bit more weathering to it..
I hope these weren't shot and unfound bucks, both are very great Fl deer, but the chances of them being so close and naturally passing is not very likely.. as well as finding the full skulls and not individual sheds.. all in all a great shed trip as Macy seemed to remember the prior training we did- if anyone wants to try this out on their dog I highly suggest Dokkens shed training book, can be found here:
http://www.deadfowltrainer.com/
