GROUP SHED HUNT - Saturday, March 12th 2011      The 6th Annual Group Shed Hunt has once again come and gone. Troy and I would like to extend a huge thank you to everybody that was able to make the trip. There were a lot of hunters that sacrificed a lot of sleep (for driving) just to attend the hunt. We had folks from all over the state including Bend, Redmond, La Pine, Eugene, Salem, Hood River, Medford, Portland, Scappoose, Coos Bay, Klamath Falls and Burns. In total we had about 50 people attend the event and the final shed count came in at 143 sheds for group!! This is an amazing statistic and is our best total to date. One group of four found 61 of those sheds! There were a few more sheds found on Sunday which are not included in the tally. The day started off by meeting in La Pine at 7 a.m. on March 12, 2011. We handed out maps and everybody went on their own way for the day. This was our second year in this location and I think most people had fun. The nice thing about this area is that there are literally thousands of acres in every direction from camp that people can hunt. So the hunting pressure is very low. The weather was dry for the most part, with short periods of light isolated snow and rain.     Around 4 p.m. most of the group met back at camp and OSH gave out prizes to the male, female and youth who found the biggest, smallest, most unique, biggest set, smallest set, furthest distance traveled, etc. We even had one youth that won the prize for finding his first mule deer shed AND losing a tooth! We had several other hunters that found their first mule deer shed, first matching set or set a personal best for total sheds in a day. Everybody that attended the prize ceremony went home with something. Prizes included 4 custom framed photos compliments of Camera Guy’s Photography, Danner, Leupold, Nosler Gerber and Cabela’s hats, Cabela’s mini-tools, Danner flashlights, t-shirts, boot grease, and socks, Gerber knives and mugs and much more. Camera Guy and his wife Gayle were presented with a special ‘Thank You Award’ for all their support to OSH and keeping the website up and running over the past six years. We truly appreciate their help and couldn’t keep OSH running without their devoted assistance!     After the prizes were all awarded most people sat around the fire and reminisced on the day’s events and other hunting excursions. Camera Guy and family told us stories about the huge mule deer they used to hunt in the area in the 1970’s. And as usual, the bonfire was larger than normal. No problem with staying warm! Quite a good group of folks stayed the night, while others made a several hour trek back home.     Sunday morning came early and some of us set out for a short hike. Hornhog warned us all to take gps units as it was an area easy to get lost in. Well, about 2 hours into the hike most everybody had gotten separated. Royce and I turned around and headed back to the pickups, only to run into a fence, of which we hadn’t seen before. It was then that we realized we were not sure which direction the pickup was. Without sun, landmarks, compass or gps we were unsure which direction to head. Shortly thereafter we found out that Troy and his sister Teresa were also turned around. Long story short we managed to find our way out thanks to some gun shots. Our short hike ended up being about 4 hours long. There were many lessons learned here, which we will be writing up in the upcoming Spring Newsletter.     What a great weekend of fun it was! Troy and I met a lot of great people and truly appreciate everybody’s support. Thanks also to our sponsors for helping make the event a success! We look forward to the 7th Annual Group Hunt next year! Click on image for larger picture. Use Back button to Return A message from CameraGuy     If you have any pictures you would like to add to this page, email them to CameraGuy , If you could resize your pictures to 800x600, I would really appreciate it. Also, a great big thank you to Rob and Troy for putting on this group shed hunt and the OSH organization. It's a great place for like-minded people to get together and to share their stories and experiences in the great outdoors. Member Shed Hunt Pics.