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Fresh matched set and interesting find
« on: February 21, 2015, 05:13:29 PM »
Went on a nice hike today and was lucky enough to find a nice matching set. On the way out we found a relatively recent buck carcass with one antler sawed off. Kind of odd they only cut off one...
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2015, 05:27:42 PM »
Looks like it was shed in the picture; hard to tell though. Looks like I am looking at the pedicle.
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2015, 05:29:11 PM »
Nice set!

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2015, 05:55:42 PM »
Looks like it was shed in the picture; hard to tell though. Looks like I am looking at the pedicle.

The last pic the antler is still attached to skull and the other was sawed off. There was still hair around the pedicle like someone skinned it...  :dunno:
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2015, 08:32:40 PM »
Nice finds!

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2015, 09:18:33 PM »
 :tup:

Did the dogs sniff them out?

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2015, 09:34:17 PM »
Looks like it was shed in the picture; hard to tell though. Looks like I am looking at the pedicle.

The last pic the antler is still attached to skull and the other was sawed off. There was still hair around the pedicle like someone skinned it...  :dunno:


Looks to me like it shed the passenger side then died. (For whatever reason)  The hair around the base is what the birds and other preditors couldnt get to.... Or else i have found alot of skinned dead heads lol

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2015, 05:44:27 AM »
Doesn't look sawed off, maybe broken off?  :dunno: Nice set btw!
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #8 on: February 22, 2015, 07:17:52 AM »
Doesn't look sawed off, maybe broken off?  :dunno: Nice set btw!

99% sure it was sawed off. I picked it up and it was a smooth clean pedicle.
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #9 on: February 22, 2015, 08:21:22 AM »
X2 on the shed, if it was sawed you would see saw marks, the face of pedicle looks dimpled, this is where the normal separation would occur.  :dunno:
But I dont know, just looking at picture.
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #10 on: February 22, 2015, 08:23:21 AM »
100 percent it shed the one side.

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #11 on: February 22, 2015, 08:43:06 AM »
That's a cool find 👍
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #12 on: February 22, 2015, 09:06:55 AM »
I think Bigfoot killed it and then used one antler for his toothpick :chuckle:

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #13 on: February 22, 2015, 09:10:27 AM »
Nice find buddy, I need to get time to check out the honey hole for sheds  :tup:
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2015, 09:27:48 AM »
Good finds!
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2015, 09:36:28 AM »
congrats
I spent a couple days looking for moose sheds up near 49 degrees north
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nice country though and nice trip I always wanted to try
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think I went too late
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2015, 01:27:27 PM »
So you guys think he shed one antler then died?
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #17 on: February 22, 2015, 02:02:01 PM »
Can only tell so much from the picture. Appears to be naturally shed, BUT, it would have been shed very early considering the conditions of the remains. I have been seeing a lot of bucks still packing both sides in that area.
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #18 on: February 22, 2015, 02:47:24 PM »
So you guys think he shed one antler then died?

I would say yes, it's not unheard of for a buck to drop as early as January and if the buck was in poor health it very well could have dropped early.  :twocents: :dunno:
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #19 on: February 22, 2015, 02:50:18 PM »
I have found this two different times. One time specifically, my brother found a fresh 2x muley horn that was really dirty and looked like it had been dragged around in mud. A few hundred yards down the hill I found the skull with the other horn still attached. We just figured a coyote was packing the skull and the horn fell off… A fun way to match one up though!
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #20 on: February 22, 2015, 03:46:33 PM »
I marked it on my gps so next time up there I will scour the surrounding area and see what I can find
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #21 on: February 22, 2015, 03:56:40 PM »
My guess is someone found the buck hung up in a barbed wire or locked with another buck and cut him loose, he probably expired after the stress and length of time being locked down, seems to be the most reasonable explanation!
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2015, 07:31:09 AM »
Could be, but I really doubt someone would cut the antler below the burr.

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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2015, 02:06:49 PM »
Could be, but I really doubt someone would cut the antler below the burr.

Yeah hard to tell from the pic whether it was cut I'm just going by what you said. If it wasn't cut loose from something then that just leaves being shed.
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2015, 02:20:10 PM »
If all goes as planned, I am going to head back up this weekend to do some more hiking and then go back and see if I can find the other side. I will snap some more pics with better detail
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Re: Fresh matched set and interesting find
« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2015, 02:31:36 PM »
 :tup: Good luck!
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