FIRST FRESH BROWN or...

[boneaddict]

is it last Fresh brown of the year.     Oh bother..... FOund my first moose shed today from this years crop.  If I would have been patient and watched, I probably could have had its matched but I got impatient and wanted moose pics.  I ended up bumping him.  The one on his head was driving him nuts.  He was smacking it on a tree, shaking violently etc.  
EARLIEST I've ever seen one drop   EVER!   and he wasn't sick.

[C-Money]

Did you get any pic's of the moose? Or the shed? Seems kinda early to drop antlers, but I have seen deer do it in PA this early. Kinda sickning to see a buck walk by with two scabs instead of Antlers on opening day about 10 years ago.

[boneaddict]

most didn't turn out because of the fog....

[C-Money]

Glad you got a shot of him. Is he a WA Moose?

[MtnMuley]

Wow. Unearthly early!!

[boneaddict]

Its a Washington moose.  and...I'm glad I didn't wait the 20 minutes....two days later

[bow4elk]

post the shed pic?

[boneaddict]

I didn't take any.  I tried but couldn't get the angle on it with the big lens.   

This guy was standing about 50 yards in front of the moose.  Probably what the moose is eyeballing in th epic.

[carpsniperg2]

still good pics bone

[whacker1]

seen a couple small bulls in Selkirk with only one antler in the last couple of weeks.

[boneaddict]

Its interesting you say that Whacker as moose seem to be opposite of elk, where the big ones shed first.  In moose the small ones shed before the big ones.

[whacker1]

I wonder if there is a biological reason for the way each animal sheds that would separate it from the process of another.  small early vs. larger later.  or vice versa.

[MtnMuley]

I've seen a buck in the exact same area for the last three years that has shed by the 5th of November each year.  Giant bodied deer with large peticles that have definately had antler on them.

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

Who shot the Moose last year that had dropped? (Huntnphool??) that was even earlier!

[boneaddict]

Robs bull was on November 30th, or last day of the season.  I presume he shed probably the 29th or somewhere dang close to the 30th if not on the 30th.  To date, that was the earliest I knew of moose shedding.  This one is way earlier.