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your rarest shed find
« on: March 07, 2009, 09:07:21 AM »
I know this isn't exactly a shed, but I did find it while traveling through the goat rocks. I found the skull laying next to it. I wish I know the real story behind it but here are the two that I think may have happened. The skull and horn are really, really old ( I doctored up the horn a bit), and I found them in a very, very old camp that I stumbled acrossed, so I think either the goat went way, way down in elevation due to weather, or he was possibly shot for camp meat? I don't know? anyway, I thought I would share with you folks, maybe you just had to be there, but I thought it was pretty cool.
 

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2009, 09:10:51 AM »
Both good thoghts. I like the camp meat one if it was found in a old camp site.
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2009, 09:31:30 AM »
I would have to say a moose shed, and a 6 point bull elk shed. Both found in the 49 North unit. while bowing hunting in the same day!!! Didn't see any elk that day and thats what I was looking for. Lost several arrows shooting grouse.  :chuckle:
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2009, 09:33:42 AM »
moose sheds are the only sheds i have ever found...and i live 6 hours away from them. i will also say i have not spent a bunch of time in the woods shed hunting.
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #4 on: March 07, 2009, 09:35:27 AM »
a goat horn - that's a first and really, really rare!

I found a bighorn sheep ear tag in NM, and like I mentioned in another thread, an antelope horn, also in NM during the same elk hunt.  Nothing has topped the antelope horn for me personally.
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2009, 09:52:31 AM »
over on the palouse I did find a giant 2x2 muley skull wrapped up in a barbwire fence with the rest of his bones scattered around like he was picked apart while stuck there.
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2009, 12:57:46 AM »
Nontypical record book coues antler.  Currently 5th I believe overall in the world. Arizona.

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2009, 01:10:13 PM »
Here is mine.  Found inside a stump, critter drug it in there and was chewing on it.
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #8 on: March 10, 2009, 05:47:11 PM »
great pics fellas
you cant eat the horns, but backstraps look like crap on my wall!!!!

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2009, 04:24:30 PM »
I found this w/t winter skull in 2005, it was found in an area that my friend has hunted for 50 plus years and has never scene a w/t.  Therefore a rare find!  It would have been one awesome buck!  (I left it AIL).
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 05:01:57 PM »
Haven't found too many sheds.  My best is probably the 7 point shed I found in NM elk hunting.  The only bummer is that it was dwarfed by the antlers on the bull we had just blown a stock on. 

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 05:06:49 PM »
Not sure thats a whitie wacat just for conversation purposes.  Looks like a recessed muledeer which is probably even MORE rare in this state.  Absolute cool find.

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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2009, 09:24:17 AM »
The pics don't really do it justice, I'll look and see if I can find some after I disturbed it.
-Double eyeguards chewed off at a substantial diameter, ie probably taller than a Muley.
-Mainbeam chewed off but appears to have been a lot longer.
-no forks anywhere, all tines off of main?

I think whitey, but definitly considering regressed muley now.
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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2009, 04:50:06 PM »
Smallest shed about 1 1/2 inches long. I thought it was a mushroom at first glance.









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Re: your rarest shed find
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2009, 12:25:49 AM »
I like that goat horn. I've got pronghorn sheds. Hardly ever see those.
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