Heres your chance...

[boneaddict]

to call me an idiot.  I ran into two bulls that had both shed.  I didn't want to push them since it was spring so I just sat and watched them and they eventually moved on.  I found a couple sheds and was pretty excited.  Well I get back and I take a gander at the picture.  Is that a shed laying in front of him....did he just shed......I go back there a coupel days later and the antler is GONE.  No stick, no log no nothing.  Just boot tracks. 

[X-Force]

  Sh*t happens. That pretty funny tho

[hunterbuilder]

  That's pretty funny. How far away were you when you took the pic?

[bowsandhose]

so close but yet so far

[boneaddict]

50 yards.

[BlackTail]

IDIOT!!    Just kidding Bone.  Looks like it was a nice shed too!!

[backwoods_boy]

this might make you feel better ha ha ha
i just had to ....
 

[wastickslinger]

Bone-just convince yourself it was a busted up 3 point. 

[bow4elk]

Just a hunch - but if it makes you feel better, it appears that he's not bloody on the pedicle, in fact, it appears to be growing over.  Looks like he shed a week earlier or so.  I'd say he didn't drop that antler (assuming it is one) but is likely on a trail that bulls were using when you caught him there on film.

[wastickslinger]

Or it could be the hair still standing up from just dropping. I have seen that before. It stays up a few inches for a while. You really know he just dropped when you see that.

[boneaddict]

Well thats sort of what I figured and why I wasn't really paying attention, or paying closer attention to the bull.  I started looking at the picture though and if you have shed hunted much, know that is a very characteristic look.   anyhow.......my loss.  DANG  Usually its an open wound and bright red, though I don't recall what the other side looked like.  He probably dropped it a day or two earlier and just happened to be standing over it. 

[bucklucky]

The spot that looks like a antler is just dirty snow and it melted off by the time you got back up there  maybee.....

[boneaddict]

Oh good, I feel better now.

[bucklucky]

Thought that might help 

[mwhite]

That's why you should never take pictures  .  That way you would've never known what you missed out on!