2023 Shed hunting Public Land - 42 antlers

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[@nataliedeyton6829]

If I could find sheds like that I wouldn’t be so unhappy about not killing a big buck each year 😂

[@tonyvanasten]

Haha I’m right there with ya on that one

[@troyfranzen4483]

Awesome sheds, Tony! Looks like you have a great opportunity for a potential giant next fall. I'll look forward to seeing THAT video

[@tonyvanasten]

I sure hope you’re right! Thanks for watching

[@GIOUTDOORS]

Awesome finds bud! I wonder if that broken tine you found belonged to that big bruiser who busted his inside tine at 4:54

[@tonyvanasten]

Thanks man! Well they were about 40 miles apart lol so I don’t think so

[@archeryonly5629]

Killen it 🤙

[@rodbelding9523]

Awesome finds. I'm getting amped for this year already, but still got like another month and a half before I start putting in the work.

[@tonyvanasten]

Ya me too man, I’m just starting trapping right now but after that I’ll be getting after them!

[@MidwesternTrapper]

Love the videos, got my subscription as soon as you said you were a trapper! Best of luck in your endeavors!

[@tonyvanasten]

Thanks man, I’ve been following your stuff for a few years now. Keep it up!

[@timesly1]

Some dandy sheds. Best of both worlds is you have permission to hunt for those bucks. Good luck harvesting that brute.

[@tonyvanasten]

Thanks!

[@anthonyreedy9023]

Awesome video bud!

[@tonyvanasten]

Thank you!

[@corygroothousen5955]

Love the videos !

[@tonyvanasten]

Thank you!

[@treyreed555]

Great video!! Aside from putting in the miles, what would you say is the best advice for finding sheds without having intel from a trail cam? South facing slopes or maybe targeting where they are feeding that time of year?

[@tonyvanasten]

Thank you! Ya food is always king at that time of year. This winter has been pretty strange throughout the Midwest with some very mild temps after a small stretch of deep snow and cold. But in a normal winter conditions the most critical part of the deers day is the first hour or two of daylight. It’s the coldest right before dawn and they need that sun to hit them so I really like east and south east faces. When it comes to food I like to find the good secondary food sources inside the cover like areas where the red oak are getting dug up or locust pods or horse tail ect..

[@andrewberki110]

Awesome finds bud, congrats! the title of your video says "public" ground, but with all the cameras I'm assuming most of the big sheds came off private..well done and good luck this season.

[@tonyvanasten]

Why would you assume that the big sheds came off private? I run over 50 cameras on public across multiple counties, and sometimes multiple states. I’m not sure what country you’re from but here it’s allowed to run cameras on public. It’s nice that our bucks don’t have the ability to read signs or have onX so they don’t know when they are on public land. Hopefully that doesn’t change anytime soon.

[@andrewberki110]

Bad assumption on my end@@tonyvanasten, after checking out your Instagram I see you indeed focus mostly on public, awesome! The reason I mistakenly jumped to that conclusion is because here in Michigan a camera on public will last about a week if you are lucky, I also know guys in Iowa who have the same problem. Congrats on your finds and good luck this season 👍

[@trentjanowski]

The driftless sure produces some tanks, not sure if you keep track of your miles on Onx but if so how much walking did you do?

[@tonyvanasten]

I’ll try and keep track this year. I was a little over 600 miles last year. I can’t walk nearly as far in a day in hill country, in the marsh when everything is still froze up I usually can put on 18-21 miles in a day.

[@cameronbrennemanoutdoors]

Hey quick questions I know as someone that asks people to fish their property and once in a blue moon to hunt(which has a low success rate if you don’t personally know them). What is the success rate of getting permission to shed hunt cause there are like 3-4 neighbors I would love to ask to look on their property for shess

[@tonyvanasten]

I guess that depends on how good of a salesman you are, in my opinion it’s more of how you present yourself to the landowner. I don’t ask many people but when I do it’s usually because I either already have a shed spotted or I’m looking for a particular bucks antlers that may be just off the public. I would say I almost always get a yes but I have got a few no’s throughout the years.

[@duckweezy03]

Just wondering if you found that big shed near where you found that shed near the pines or on the dead end road?

[@tonyvanasten]

Picked up the big shed on a little piece of public land in Antarctica 😂

[@jasonnester9514]

I shed hunt private land in Ohio and don’t even find sheds close to that size

[@Crawdiddle]

Please post another one for next year

[@tonyvanasten]

You bet! Thanks for watching

[@cameronbrennemanoutdoors]

I seriously wonder how people find sheds like this cause last season I went all in and waited till cams showed no more antlers and found like 2 in an hour but on 3 different combined properties only found 2 spikes after the first two when 2 of the 3 properties had multiple average to above average sized legal bucks on them yet I see these KZbinrs find what I find for an entire season of probably over 10 miles of walking in one or 2 hour long searches

[@Dallas1390]

Sounds like they got them before you did. Lmao

[@tonyvanasten]

Ya sometimes it’s so frustrating walking properties that you know has a ton of bucks and not picking any up. I have a few different strategies on the order of properties I shed hunt. Running cameras specially for late season helps a lot. If I’m looking for one particular deer on a place knowing when he sheds is important because he’ll shed very close to the same date every year. Knowing the wind direction of a window when bucks shed is important to where those bucks would have been bedded during that time. But really just putting on quality miles is what does it. I was between 600-700 miles last year which isn’t crazy but probably more than a majority of guys who don’t have that amount of time in the spring.

[@cameronbrennemanoutdoors]

@@Dallas1390 no one else shed hunts in the area with the most bucks and it’s posted so I just think they probably dropped on neighbors property