Couldn't find a thread for the sheds, so I'll get it started. Found a few yesterday here in Oregon.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds2-8140_zpsb7jtu0yn.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds2-8140_zpsb7jtu0yn.jpg.html)
Love all the slag on the base of this heavy antler!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds3-8146_zpsdizivewe.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds3-8146_zpsdizivewe.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds1-8139_zpswekotbwz.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Jan13sheds1-8139_zpswekotbwz.jpg.html)
Those are beautiful. Surely got my blood pumping for a walk. Still early where I live.
Nice finds! I guess I had better get out there!
the 2nd side of grand dad's 2015 head gear
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the other side found 1/1/16.
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:thumbsup: Cool stuff.......
Awesome pics Tree Killer :thumbsup:
Axious to get out myself but about a month early here.......
Do Blacktails have a concentrated winter area or are you covering a lot of ground to find them?
Blacktail sheds are not easy to come by, I have never found one just laying there in plain sight. Usually they are in some tangle of blackberry bushes or vine maple thicket. Several years ago in February I was hiking with my two Golden retrievers and they found three in one day. They were fresh sheds so apparently they could smell the blood. All three sheds were in a tangle or buried in leaves and I would never had seen them. A week later we went back to the same area and they found the other side to a nice 4x4 we had found the week before. My two boys are gone now and I think of them every time I see those sheds !
Awesome sheds ron way to get out there after them and Congrats to you!!...hope to see more pics from you!!
Thanks guys! Little early, just getting started here.
QuoteOriginally posted by 23feetupandhappy:
Awesome pics Tree Killer :thumbsup:
Axious to get out myself but about a month early here.......
Do Blacktails have a concentrated winter area or are you covering a lot of ground to find them?
Most don't, but there's some areas where bucks migrate out of the higher mountains for the winter.
Neighbor kid found these on a pond dam that I can look out and see from my kitchen window. The buck had to have spent the summer there. Funny the owner of the property told me several times to come on over and sit in a broke down tractor cab because there was a real nice buck there every morning. Guess this might be the nice buck. Sure dropped early. (http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd251/bens5218/IMG_0557.jpg) (http://s223.photobucket.com/user/bens5218/media/IMG_0557.jpg.html)
Wow! :) does that can have a cup holder? :)
WHOAAAA! :eek:
All the bucks I'm watching are still carrying. Mild winter so far.
We had some rain and mildness last week that cleared the snow and I was going to go out, but lolly gagged and missed out. A foot of snow now, so will have to wait.
We had a nice buck rub in the yard at the end of November and his track is still around, so I'm hopeful.
QuoteOriginally posted by ksbowman:
Neighbor kid found these on a pond dam that I can look out and see from my kitchen window. The buck had to have spent the summer there. Funny the owner of the property told me several times to come on over and sit in a broke down tractor cab because there was a real nice buck there every morning. Guess this might be the nice buck. Sure dropped early. (http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd251/bens5218/IMG_0557.jpg) (http://s223.photobucket.com/user/bens5218/media/IMG_0557.jpg.html)
I would get out looking. Tough to be sure from a picture but I would say those are from last year. Any more pictures? They are beauties!!
I haven't got to hold them yet, if they were last years the squirrels and mice usually knaw on them pretty hard.
Maybe the buck was injured and shed early. We had a nice buck do that a few years ago. We found the buck with a wound but no rack.
Got lucky this morn, not really shed hunting, but saw it from truck in short grass along gravel road! LOL
(http://i.imgur.com/9ApHdYW.jpg)
Great finds everyone., I will be walking around in the rain tomorrow looking for rabbits. I know none of the neighbors shot anything this year except a spike and one doe so I imagine all the bucks I saw all summer may be leaving presents.
They were dripping antlers very early in Ohio. My uncle and brother found 3 sheds the week after Christmas.
very cool thread. Keep the pics coming.
I've put on a couple miles between the last 2 days and have come up empty but I was also looking for rabbits and squirrels...also came up empty lol. The ice crust is awfully loud right now, no sneaking up on anything.
Saw 2 bucks yesterday carrying both sides, so I'm holding out a little longer so I don't have to cover stuff twice.
Walking out on South lease from thinning yotes today , just walking along enjoying the 17 degree high for the day and laying right in the field road!!
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Also saw 3 bucks carrying both sides!
Good stuff!
At least your tire didn't find it first, Kenny.
My first thought also, Doug!!
My buddy is getting ready to custom combine 300 acres of beans that have been overrun with deer, bet he finds 20 or 30 around the edges of that!! :eek:
QuoteOriginally posted by kennym:
Walking out on South lease from thinning yotes today , just walking along enjoying the 17 degree high for the day and laying right in the field road!!
(http://i.imgur.com/X8X6piz.jpg)
Also saw 3 bucks carrying both sides!
I like that one Kenny!
My son and I are going out tomorrow, hopefully some of the snow has melted in the last week.
I'm always looking and never seem to find sheds. The few I have found in my life time have been total accidental finds. Wish I knew the secret to finding the nice ones.
Jerry:
Bedding areas, fence crossings, trails with overhanging branches are just a few areas to look for. Here in East Texas, the squirrels are normally eating the antlers before they drop. :laughing:
Biggest secret to finding sheds is having a place to look for them where the deer shed! Bigger ones stand out pretty well. It's the smaller ones that are tough to spot!
Saw a small buck still carrying his yesterday here in southern Missouri.
Have a pretty decent size herd (well really two separate ones that mingle in the middle) here at work. They've been out in the fields every night for the past 3 weeks about 4-430ish when I head home. 2 weeks ago there were 3 6pt and a nice big 8pt....now all antlerless. And another guy go a picture on a trail camera of a big buck that had just two big flat spots where his gear was (probably the reclusive 14pt nobody has seen in person).
I've had my dog out a couple times and went to all the bedding areas close by, nothing. I'm planning to go further out soon after a little melting with the projected 40°F days coming up this weekend.
My dog has never found a real shed, just all the planted ones I leave around.
I found one last weekend when I was checking trail cams. All of the rest of the bucks on camera still had both sides.
These threads amaze me - in 25 years of hunting I've never found a single shed. My 8 year old, Mason, found one this year from a pretty 6 point. Dang!!!! Even my little man can find them! :smileystooges:
I'll get a pic of him holding it and post it.
Been hunting and spending in the woods since the 60's and I have only found 3 sheds. 2 were chewed up pretty good the other one was a year old but a real slammer. Only one side but from a 150+ class buck, a real Adirondack classic.
Great thread :campfire:
I have found 3 single sheds in the past, and literally stepped on one of them walking down the deer trail looking for them :biglaugh:
I used to think bedding areas were the key, but I find most of mine where the deer were up moving about. Think the extra motion shakes a few loose.
Same with me Kenny. And I agree. They are most likely to move them while out moving around. I do better around feeding areas but I still find plenty in bedding areas. I've actually gotten to the point now where I don't look for them as much as I used to unless I have got all my scouting done for the spring. Scouting and shed hunting at the same time just doesn't work as well for me since I tend to move much faster when shed huntng. Scouting at a slow pace works better for me.
Yep and when scouting I spend a lot of time looking at prospective stand trees!! LOL
Actually luck seems to be my best way of finding them when I'm actually doing something else!
Had a neighbor and his daughter show me a rack (both sides) that they saw fall off. The were driving a back road here by us in a freezing rain. A buck came out of the grader ditch, crossed in front of their truck then went in the other ditch, jumped a fence and when he came down both sides of his rack fell off. He showed the two sides to me and they both swore it was true. I believe them.
I have found about 4 sheds in the last 10 years and I don't look for them on purpose. I usually almost trip over them.
QuoteOriginally posted by ksbowman:
Had a neighbor and his daughter show me a rack (both sides) that they saw fall off. The were driving a back road here by us in a freezing rain. A buck came out of the grader ditch, crossed in front of their truck then went in the other ditch, jumped a fence and when he came down both sides of his rack fell off. He showed the two sides to me and they both swore it was true. I believe them.
I've found a few at fence and ditch crossings where they jumped so I believe it.
You guys are lucky. Here in Colorado the muleys don't start really dropping until the end of Febuary. I usually find some good deer sheds, but it involves miles of hiking. What I am really excited for is April when the elk start dropping.
Ours in SE Texas are falling now. Have pics fro 2 days ago with the antlers gone. I'm goin shed huntin.
I found another one while yote calling today. Looked like it might have been chewed by the yotes , it was laying in a pasture ,saw it from 50 yards! LOL
Found this yesterday with the dog, in 18" of snow up north. The points that were not covered in snow are chewed up, and one brow tine too (maybe when it was covered in the first snow?)
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj56/mlsthmpsn/Hunting/20160131_074311_zpsp9z33wqk.jpg)
Here are a couple from my clover plot, they have spent some time there when we had snow on, digging clover out of the snow.
(http://i.imgur.com/3TeuYcE.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/lcsOccn.jpg)
Had a decent day Monday now that the snow is melting or firmed up enough to stay on top.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb1shed1_zpso1e0orok.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb1shed1_zpso1e0orok.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/feb1shed2_zpspysegbgn.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/feb1shed2_zpspysegbgn.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/feb1shed3_zpsfm2bcihg.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/feb1shed3_zpsfm2bcihg.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/feb1shed5_zpshp7ynl9h.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/feb1shed5_zpshp7ynl9h.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/feb1shed6_zpstw5w0nma.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/feb1shed6_zpstw5w0nma.jpg.html)
Even found a recent lion kill.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/feb1shed4_zpsmrkcqwjz.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/feb1shed4_zpsmrkcqwjz.jpg.html)
Nice sheds ron!!Thxs for sharing
Tree killer you are a shed finding machine!
Got out yesterday in the rain, but ended up having a pretty good morning. Found 8 antlers, but only one set. Also found a small forked horn just before heading home for a total of 9 for the day.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb4shed3_zpskzqssqd2.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb4shed3_zpskzqssqd2.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb4shed5_zpsy7kujwc3.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb4shed5_zpsy7kujwc3.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb4shed4_zpsa2kvzpaq.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb4shed4_zpsa2kvzpaq.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb4shed6_zpsbvfq1wgt.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb4shed6_zpsbvfq1wgt.jpg.html)
Good job Ron, way to get out even though it was heavy rain at times... :clapper:
QuoteOriginally posted by RAGHORN 3:
Good job Ron, way to get out even though it was heavy rain at times... :clapper:
Thanks! I should have went back out today, going to be a nice day in the northwest.
IOne of the sheds I found yesterday was a gnarly antler, basically a big forked horn with a crabclaw. Pretty sure I found an antler off this same buck two years ago, he was a big nasty 3x4 during the rut of 2013...and I found his 4pt side in February 2014.
February 2014
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February 2016
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That's amazing Ron - those are truly beautiful!!!! Can I ask what you do with them all? Do you display them or use them for any kind of projects? Awesome stuff!
I've been running around here at work this morning marking things for my GIS stuff...dogs put on some miles, nothing to show yet.
They're out here somewhere, just gotta run across them down wind.
Those Blacktail drops are outstanding...... :thumbsup:
Put on 6 miles myself today in 6-10" of snow....dog probably did 5X that. Jumped two deer and and three turkeys.
No sheds found. :rolleyes:
QuoteOriginally posted by J. Cook:
That's amazing Ron - those are truly beautiful!!!! Can I ask what you do with them all? Do you display them or use them for any kind of projects? Awesome stuff!
Hey Jonathan! I mostly just collect them. some of the more unique antlers get displayed in the house. Some of the small sheds with an eyeguard I use for making a combo wingbone/antler turkey call. I use the antler for the bell of the call.
Those a really awesome - you've definitely got it figured out Ron! Keep 'me coming.
Our bucks are still carrying!
QuoteOriginally posted by Tree Killer:
QuoteOriginally posted by J. Cook:
That's amazing Ron - those are truly beautiful!!!! Can I ask what you do with them all? Do you display them or use them for any kind of projects? Awesome stuff!
Hey Jonathan! I mostly just collect them. some of the more unique antlers get displayed in the house. Some of the small sheds with an eyeguard I use for making a combo wingbone/antler turkey call. I use the antler for the bell of the call. [/b]
He needs a new shed for his sheds... :bigsmyl:
Mulies around my house are still firmly attached to their antlers. Elk too. Don't see to many whitetails in my area so I wouldn't know about them.
Tom
QuoteOriginally posted by Jerry Jeffer:
I'm always looking and never seem to find sheds. The few I have found in my life time have been total accidental finds. Wish I knew the secret to finding the nice ones.
Jerry,
I'm in Eastern PA too and I never find sheds when I'm looking for them either.
quote:
Originally posted by Jerry Jeffer:
I'm always looking and never seem to find sheds. The few I have found in my life time have been total accidental finds. Wish I knew the secret to finding the nice ones.
Jerry,
I'm in Eastern PA too and I never find sheds when I'm looking for them either.
Look in the thick stuff. In CT I find most of mine in dense vegetation along the edges of swamps.
Tree Killer,
I would really like to see some of your Turkey calls! They must look awesome.
Harry
Cool thread :thumbsup:
I guess I need to get out and hit some of my spots, the exercise would be good for me and I'll post some picks. Great picks as always Ron and Ben that's a awesome set of sheds bud.
Tracy
Buddy and I camped out Tuesday night.
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Holy smokes!!!
It would take me five years of hard searching here in Ohio to find that many horns.
Awesome!!
You must have enough snow pack that the antlers stay on top???
QuoteOriginally posted by Takedown:
Tree Killer,
I would really like to see some of your Turkey calls! They must look awesome.
Harry
Here's a couple that I've made Harry.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/antlerbone2_zps2j8fv4ld.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/antlerbone2_zps2j8fv4ld.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/combo-call_zps2m6yeuqr.gif) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/combo-call_zps2m6yeuqr.gif.html)
Nice buck shed I found today...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb15shed5_zpsewyym2bp.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb15shed5_zpsewyym2bp.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb15shed6_zpsrs8zrl4d.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb15shed6_zpsrs8zrl4d.jpg.html)
DANG!!!!!!
Is this a typical year for you or are you shed hunting out of your mind right now?!?!?!? :readit:
Loving the pics of the chocolate racks :thumbsup:
X2!!
Still waiting in Ohio to do serious walking. Still getting pics of quite a few bucks holding here, especially the big guys.
Your wing bone calls are super cool too :thumbsup:
dbl post :knothead:
QuoteOriginally posted by 23feetupandhappy:
DANG!!!!!!
Is this a typical year for you or are you shed hunting out of your mind right now?!?!?!? :readit:
Loving the pics of the chocolate racks :thumbsup:
About average...lots of our bucks dropped early this year.
Thanks, I enjoy building those antler/wingbone combo calls.
I wasn't shed hunting. I was scouting but I happened upon this one.
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Still carrying here. I usually don't find many till March. I have been out several times just walking the trails in the snow before it melts to see where I should be looking.
QuoteOriginally posted by jonsimoneau:
I wasn't shed hunting. I was scouting but I happened upon this one.
(http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n132/jonsimoneau/0EBE66EE-578F-4D7C-82D5-43AD702B5881_zpseklowagg.jpg) (http://s111.photobucket.com/user/jonsimoneau/media/0EBE66EE-578F-4D7C-82D5-43AD702B5881_zpseklowagg.jpg.html)
Love the long eyeguard on that antler Jon!
Yesterday I jumped a big mountain lion while out shed hunting. He was laying on an old growth stump and had probably been watching me for 5 minutes until I got to within 100 ft...then he baled off and disappeared over the hill. Also found a few sheds!
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb17sheds17_zpsuoigldct.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb17sheds17_zpsuoigldct.jpg.html)
Wow.....neat to see a lion. Nice sheds also!!
Ron - are these all from different areas I'm assuming? Or do you have that many bucks in a concentrated zone?
QuoteOriginally posted by J. Cook:
Ron - are these all from different areas I'm assuming? Or do you have that many bucks in a concentrated zone?
Winter range, they come down out of the higher mountains in early November, seek out the doe's during the rut and winter there. They're already moving upslope as the snowline recedes with the warmer weather we've had lately.
I would say that 60 percent of the bucks around here are still carrying. But the competition for finding shed antlers is high. Ya gotta get out early and often to beat the other guys to them. Trespassing laws are completely disregarded during shed season.
40 degree temps are moving in and we have had just a little of the last foot of snow start to melt off.
I had this guy under me late in November. Glad my tag was filled. He is going to be a good one to keep an eye out for.
I need to find the other side before the squirrels do.
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1666/25116986665_ccfb55d5df.jpg)
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Boy you ever price antlers @ a pet store.I'm setting on a gold mine LOL.
X2 on disregard for tresspass laws. Competition is high in our little state as well. Good thing we have lots of marsh. Guys are finding a few but I have the best luck after the second week of March.
Great finds guys....those Blacktails...well I can't get over the beautiful coloration.
short and heavy! 6 inch base!
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1535/24527806903_da5e0f001c.jpg)
Parker found this one today along a stubble field bordering public land.
150" class - 5 point
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/Kagyone/Parker-2-21-Shed_zpsvbfattso.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Kagyone/media/Parker-2-21-Shed_zpsvbfattso.jpg.html)
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Here's my first of the year he was one I was after glad he made it
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Had an amazing day today.
Here are 4 sheds and a broken beam from yesterday. All were old. All the pics I'm getting shows bucks holding both sides.
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That is Jackson, my nearly 4 month old Lab pup.
Good looking pups guys!
Do the whitetail antlers lose their color fast...or do they just NOT get much stain on them to begin with? Nice looking sheds guys!
My buddy and I got out for a few hours Sunday and found some nice antlers.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb21shed2_zps2ef7tcmv.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb21shed2_zps2ef7tcmv.jpg.html)
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QuoteOriginally posted by Tree Killer:
Do the whitetail antlers lose their color fast...or do they just NOT get much stain on them to begin with? Nice looking sheds guys!
The color varies around here but I would say all of the ones I find are considerably lighter then the ones you are finding.
Iv shot and seen some with dark antlers in the fall but if they are on the ground for long it seams to bleach them out pretty quick.
I think it all has to do with what they rub on IMHO
AND another pile of sheds for you!!!!!
Whats your count up to for the year?
Wow......I guess you have to look where there are some deer......lol!
Still haven't found any sheds this year. However, a few weeks back the pup did lock up and spin 180° to dive under a bushy Pine and found this.
(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj56/mlsthmpsn/Hunting/20160123_135753_zpsehbzxjmk.jpg)
At first, I thought it was a dead deer or something by the color of the frame in the vegetation. Seems its been there at least a season, with the vegetation grown up around it (not piled up on it), and the fabric/straps faded a bit.
Not sure why someone would haul this thing all the way to the middle of 11 acres, to leave it under a nondescript pine among 100's of the same....literally in the middle of where all the deer hide and bed.
:dunno:
Great Finds guys.
QuoteOriginally posted by 23feetupandhappy:
AND another pile of sheds for you!!!!!
Whats your count up to for the year?
Some of these were found by my friend that goes with me usually. I haven't stopped to count how many I have right now?
All I found yesterday were old antlers. The brownies were in hiding or somebody else had already been in the area.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/Feb23oldies_zpsl3kms2ii.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/Feb23oldies_zpsl3kms2ii.jpg.html)
I've found this old antler about three times over the years, the critters must not have liked the taste of it?
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/oldtimer_zpsordaabm2.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/oldtimer_zpsordaabm2.jpg.html)
Also found a winter killed buck. Lots of lions in the area, but pretty sure this buck wasn't a lion kill because the whole skeleton was intact and the nose hadn't been chewed off.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v117/treekiller/shed%20pics/winterkill2016_zpsjkazeqag.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/treekiller/media/shed%20pics/winterkill2016_zpsjkazeqag.jpg.html)
We aren't allowed to take skulls with antlers attached, so pics are all I brought home.
Today I found the Mangy Coyote I have watched all summer and Fall. I guess this mild winter was too much.
No antlers though.
(http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j456/jalariso/20160227_143720%20242467.jpg) (http://s1086.photobucket.com/user/jalariso/media/20160227_143720%20242467.jpg.html)
I found this great main frame 8 matched set today.
Holy cow, John!! SWEET !!
Wow what mass! :eek: :scared:
As you can see in this trail cam photo, he has a body to match the mass in his rack.
(http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j456/jalariso/10-1-2015.jpg) (http://s1086.photobucket.com/user/jalariso/media/10-1-2015.jpg.html)
Wow!d
Awesome buck and so great to see the body those were on in the trail cam pic.
John, what you reckon he weighs on the hoof?
I'm guessing mid to upper 300s
Here he is in July...
(http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j456/jalariso/7-10-2015_3.jpg) (http://s1086.photobucket.com/user/jalariso/media/7-10-2015_3.jpg.html) (http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j456/jalariso/7-10-2015_2.jpg) (http://s1086.photobucket.com/user/jalariso/media/7-10-2015_2.jpg.html)
I don't want to speculate on his live weight but it would have to be over 300.
QuoteOriginally posted by creekwood:
(http://i1086.photobucket.com/albums/j456/jalariso/20160227_143720%20242467.jpg) (http://s1086.photobucket.com/user/jalariso/media/20160227_143720%20242467.jpg.html)
I found this great main frame 8 matched set today.
What a find!!!!!
Where they close together?
I'd hope he's on your list this year John!!!!
I love BIG 8s!!!!!
Found this set on Saturday morning. With an estimated 19" inside spread they gross score just a hair over 183". Biggest sheds I have ever found by far.
(http://i.imgur.com/rslli4Y.jpg)
My son has taking a liking to them as well.
(http://i.imgur.com/OGZl14O.jpg)
Man that's a dandy set!!!!!
Man you guys in the Midwest grow em big!! :thumbsup:
Kscattapr that is a monster!
Holy Crap, John and KS, awesome sheds!
That main frame 8 is unbelievable!!! The mass is incredible! I wouldn't know what to do if I ever saw a deer like that on the hoof.
Not sure if this counts as a "shed" but it was a cool find!
(http://i.imgur.com/dXl3JKt.jpg)
I had a pretty good day on the muley trails today
(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg179/ajdrury/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0186.jpg)
Savagelh that is a pretty cool picture .. Like the 4wheeler
Nice Find Michael.
(http://i.imgur.com/VTCxgLB.jpg)
Finally found one this year. then did one circle and found the other side, that was a first. Was a fun day... I cut some good Red Osier Dogwood shoots and fleshed my first coon hide.
(http://i.imgur.com/gUFduXR.jpg)