Ep. 1006: Shed Hunting Strategies from East Coast to West with ShedCrazy Ben Dettamanti
Wired To Hunt Podcast
MeatEater
4.8 • 4.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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This week on the show we're talking all things shed hunting, from western big game to whitetails, and even up to Alaska and we're joined by Ben Dettamanti of ShedCrazy. The only known person to find a shed antler in all 50 states.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to Meat Eaters 12 and 26 presented by Moultry Mobile and OnX Maps. |
| 0:10.3 | 12 of Meat Eaters' biggest and baddest hunts from the last year released throughout |
| 0:15.0 | 2026. These are long-form episodes so you get more of what you love. |
| 0:20.1 | The first one up is my baited bear hunt in Manitoba. |
| 0:23.4 | If you've ever wondered what a baited bear hunt is like, you'll love this episode. |
| 0:28.2 | My favorite part was watching a younger bear spend an hour trying to figure out how to get a creatively hung beaver carcass down from a tree. |
| 0:36.5 | Check it out now on Meat Eaters YouTube channel and be on the lookout for more 12 and 26 |
| 0:41.5 | in the coming months. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. |
| 0:45.8 | This week on the show, I'm joined by Ben Denimanti, also known as Shed Crazy, on the |
| 0:52.5 | internet to discuss all things shed hunting from East Coast to West. |
| 1:04.2 | All right, welcome back to the Wired to Hunt podcast. |
| 1:08.5 | This week in the show, we are talking shed hunting. All things shed hunting |
| 1:12.3 | from east to west, north to south. We are going to talk shed hunting tactics, philosophies, |
| 1:19.2 | strategies, habitat, planning trips, and how to do all of this, no matter where you live in the |
| 1:25.5 | country, no matter where you want to shed hunt in the country. We're talking to somebody today who has a level of shed hunting experience |
| 1:32.4 | that is broader than maybe anybody else in the country. This is Ben Dedamante, also known as |
| 1:38.4 | Shed Crazy, over on Instagram and YouTube. Ben has relatively recently completed a pretty impressive feat, |
| 1:46.8 | which is finding a shed antler in every single state in America. That's pretty wild. |
| 1:52.8 | He's found him in Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, Michigan, Montana, and everywhere in between. |
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