Broken sheds

[NOCK NOCK]

Found the bigger one on Jan. 1st while snowmobiling. The latest 1 I'm not sure what's going on with it, but appears kind of broke. The dark colored tip end is like the very outer layer of bone has been stripped/broken away, not sure. It was laying in the open, no whitening, so should be this years, also no chew marks on it so not done by a critter chewing on it.

[benhuntin]

Velvet?

[NOCK NOCK]

not velvet, that was my first thought till I looked closer. almost looks like it had a very small layer of outer bone sanded off. Maybe excessive rubbing

Crappy day of hunting though, if it wasn't for the dog finding the two dinkers, would have been skunked.

[AntlerHound]

This set has the same sorta thing going on... No breaks but it's almost as if the outer layer of the bone broke off  exposing the marrow...

[NOCK NOCK]

  That's a good way to describe it. 
Because the 2 point tips are still rounded, maybe the velvet was never scraped all the way off and then somehow rotted away the outer layer of bone.

[fishnfur]

Perhaps the deer lost the vevet off the antler in that area before it was completely formed.  That would certainly leave an eroded appearance to the surface.

Nice find!

[NOCK NOCK]

fishnfur, that sounds like the most plausible idea