Todays Sheds

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Mike P
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Todays Sheds

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Had a pretty fair day here in the neighborhood. Found four right antlers and two lefts. I am pretty darn excited about the larger right antler (top left in the picture). I know that buck and I am thrilled that he made it through the season. You can see he has some stickers below the brow tine. He was two this season and shows great promise. I have not to my knowledge ever seen the buck that shed the antler right below the "sticker" shed. I suspect that deer is also two. The small ones are from first year deer.

The one antler on the right had the tips chewed by the critters. They just get to them so quick here.

I did not find the antlers from two bucks that I most wanted to find. The one is a huge ten that Doc was targeting before he got antsy and shot that ten I posted the picture of in the bed of my Tundra. I am very interested to see if he made it through the season. The other is that "Great Eight" that I had under my tree very early in the season.

Unfortunately I am prohibited from posting any pictures of the sheds up at the farm. I actually violated that agreement when I posted the palmated shed last year. I heard about it at one of the joint farm meetings with our neighboring farms as several of those guys lurk here and read my stuff. They seem to get a kick out of seeing the way I depict my partners, lol. So if the lurkers are reading this, HI Guys, and no, I am not going to post any pictures of sheds other then the ones I find around my house.

And I will post those pictures when I find more.


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Nice Mike.
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ive only found one shed so far.. 3 years ago I found 14, then 6, then only 3... now just 1

i checked a cudde I had out and from 3 days ago and one bucks still had his headgear.. beauty 8 that will be on my hitlist for 09..

that top shed will be a dandy this season... good mass and he's only gonna get thicker and 2 inches taller all around 8)
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Nice way to spend an afternoon Mike!
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did ya find the "right spot at the right time" for next season?
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Post by marlinchester »

that close up of the last antler looks like it was sawed off not shed
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marlinchester wrote:that close up of the last antler looks like it was sawed off not shed
Must be the angle of the closeup I took. It is the antler on the top left in the first picture and you can see the bottom of the antler there. It is a shed.
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Re: Todays Sheds

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Mike P wrote:Had a pretty fair day here in the neighborhood. Found four right antlers and two lefts.

pretty fair day ..Geez Mike thats an awesome day...around these parts you be lucky to find one the rodents eat them very fast..
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Re: Todays Sheds

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Hoss wrote:
pretty fair day ..Geez Mike thats an awesome day...around these parts you be lucky to find one the rodents eat them very fast..
Hoss, I think it is geography at play here. The sheds down on the ranch in Texas where I grew up would be devoured in no time by the critters and I think the same is probably true for Oklahoma. There are just more gnawing critters in the southwest.

I am finding these sheds in somewhat of a residential area, these are all "urban" deer. The sheds disappear much faster out at the farm for some reason and I attribute that to the presence of more coons, skunks, squirrels, etc. etc.

Sometimes in the farm fields around my house a shed can survive an entire year it seems. I have found sheds in the middle of a cut bean field that are very deteriorated due to weather that have no gnawing or chewing whatsoever.
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Mike, are the top 2 a match? They look very close in size
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crazyfarmer wrote:Mike, are the top 2 a match? They look very close in size
No cf, they are from different deer. That buck had stickers on his left antler just like the right one. We were able to glass him many times under the apple trees in my neighbors yard down the road.
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nice looking sheds mike. looks like you had a good day
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apples most be good for stickers :P :D :lol:

im planting more apples trees this spring LOL
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Gosh, what I would do to see some tree leaves on the ground these days...


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I'm planning to hit my area in Jefferson county on friday I hope I have as much luck as you. I have my google picture printed and boots ready.
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