SHED HUNTING THREAD - PICs INCLUDED

[hugonian1]

Great find and smile on his face.

[surewood]

Very nice! Congrats to him.

[CC Hurl]

Very nice,good shape too. He must have been excited.

[bigbucks]

That's really cool.

[TonkaBass]

He's hooked now

[LOTWSvirgin]

Well I was out setting up a ground blind last evening and happened upon this shed Looked at it thought I might have a match to it at home so after sorting through all my sheds I found its match which was from 6 years ago!!! I also found one other one while there so I am up to 2 for the year and they havent even dropped yet!!!

[walleyehunter80]

well all be, thats pretty lucky

[certified jumbo]

very nice finds. hard to do that.

[Quackaddict9]

That's cool...here's a find from 2 weeks ago, we have pics of this deer for a few years but he is not around anymore, at least 3 years now. 25" main beams and obviously some good chewing off the tines.

Here's a few pics

[slimngrizzly]

Wow! Thats always fun to find some for the "wall of shame"!! 6 years is a long time!

Those gotta be 70"er's Quack! Better late than never!

We found an old treasure too that we missed from last year!

[CANOPY SAM]

I don't understand. You found the second half of a match to a set that you found the first shed from 6 years ago? Does that mean the missing shed was laying on the forest floor for 6 years? Is that possible?

Isn't it possible that another deer just had a very similar rack? I'm no expert, by any means, but they really aren't THAT different from deer to deer.

[TonkaBass]

Yeah its possible, they last a long time, Esspecially in the CRP and swamps. No real rodents in there compared to the woods. Soon they will be dropping... I cant wait for this year!

[slimngrizzly]

I don't understand. You found the second half of a match to a set that you found the first shed from 6 years ago? Does that mean the missing shed was laying on the forest floor for 6 years? Is that possible?

Isn't it possible that another deer just had a very similar rack? I'm no expert, by any means, but they really aren't THAT different from deer to deer.

They are as different as you and I!!! I found a buck dead in 2001... last year I found its left antler from 2000. i couldn't believe it!

[CANOPY SAM]

Wow! I had no idea they could, or would last that long just out in the open. Seems like, no matter where they were outside, some critter would find them and start chewing on em'.

Very cool. I'm gonna have to start looking for antlers. Seems like anything with horns gets killed almost right away in our neck of the woods. Think I'd be pretty lucky to find anything up here in NW Minnesota.

[lungdeflator]

Is it March yet??!!

[walleyehunter80]

I have found very very old antler sheds, about 1 a year that are so old you cant even guess how old they are! Not many tree rats in my area to chew them up or carry them away

[matchset]

I found a shed off a buck, 3 years after I killed him! extremely unique antler.

[slimngrizzly]

I found an elk antler in a slough bottom in central mn. There hasn't been elk here since the late 1800's. They think its from that time.... I guess how would you know. Its in pretty bad shape.

[WalleyeChamp]

Very COOL!! I would imagine that a lot of hunters come across sheds from the year before and prior. WHen i was younger there was a swamp we would drive out and it seemed every year somebody would walk out with a shed. Only makes me wonder how many were there in feb/march. I still think I need to check out that area some winter.

[laker1]

I found an elk antler in a slough bottom in central mn. There hasn't been elk here since the late 1800's. They think its from that time.... I guess how would you know. Its in pretty bad shape.

between Brainerd and Little Falls a bull elk got loose from a game farm in the 70's. it ran around for about 2 years.

[strait-meat]

I seen elk near I-94 in Rogers so it could be possible to find sheds around the area.

[CANOPY SAM]

The elk shed could've been really, really old.

I never saw it, but I'd heard someone found an ancient (giant) elk antler in the Wild Rice river just west of Twin Valley, MN.

It was massive, and basically petrified. They figured, again from what I'm told, that it may have been hundreds, or perhaps even thousands of years old.

I always watch the river banks for unearthed bones, and stuff, whenever fishing or floating an old river. Can't wait to find my first Dinosaur!!!

[lungdeflator]

I found this elk antler last fall in ND. It was buried in the river bottom mud, only reason I found it was because the river was a little low, only 1 tine sticking up.

[CC Hurl]

Mr. Boyd's first shed at one year old. Brought tears to my eye's. These pics are from last March. He is a good 10 lbs. bigger now. Great dog indeed.

Boyd with his first two sheds ever. All we found this year. Break time after a day's work.

Boyd's opinion of finding leg bones instead of Antlers. These were under the grass he is standing in. I called him and he wouldn't come. Went on over and he was proud so we staged a pic. for him. You should reward them as if they found you a shed when they get other bones. Boyd likes venison chunks for reward.

[CC Hurl]

Nice find lungdeflator, that must have been exciting. Awesome picture too.