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Offline boneaddict

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2010, 12:54:27 PM »
You'll find more moose by rubs than any other animal, elk second, deer third.  Moose are more apt to intentionally rub to get their bones off.   Not sure if its the second shed or the first.  I think it is so lopsided for them after they drop one, they try to remove the other.    BUT.....that being said, RANDOM

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2010, 07:19:47 PM »
Interesting lol


You like that brent, i told you i would post a topic about this.

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2010, 07:25:41 PM »
they only fall off at the rub...Sooo you guys wait at the rubs until they come back to rub their antlers off...I will waist my time,ankle express in know hangouts :chuckle:

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2010, 07:32:47 PM »
they only fall off at the rub...Sooo you guys wait at the rubs until they come back to rub their antlers off...I will waist my time,ankle express in know hangouts :chuckle:

Oh God.

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #19 on: March 16, 2010, 07:21:33 AM »
Both.

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #20 on: March 20, 2010, 06:44:22 AM »
to settle the fued here goes elk only loose there horns when new growth pushes them off pure and simple deer on the other hand are a little diffferant whaen the testosterone levels dip really really low it triggers a reaction and they just fall off whenever and this is coming from a wildlife biologist friend of mine who went to school for this but as for the fued goes i have seen lots of fresh elk rubs in the spring every year i have also seen deer in december muzzy hunts that will loose horns on bullet impact so they can drop from december to april hope this helps

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #21 on: March 20, 2010, 07:09:30 AM »
you are both right. even though i am sure more fall off then get rubbed off on a tree or etc. maybe 1:100 or somthing :chuckle: ruff guess i also find them under fences were the deer duck the wires.

Yep... and look near roads or creeks, any crossings that they may jump or duck.




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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #22 on: March 20, 2010, 10:06:25 AM »
The only reason I look under trees around here is because there is less snow there and the grass is easier to get to. Most of the horns I find are where they bed or feed, what they do most of the time during winter :twocents:. I have found horns next to grainerys where deer feed on spilled grain. I think they bump them against the bin as they are feeding and nock off a few. Buck rubs happen in the fall when they are rubbing off velvet and later in the rut when they are marking their territory. I wouldn't go looking for rubs hoping to find horns.

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #23 on: March 20, 2010, 02:20:07 PM »
Well fisherman Joe, regarding your fued, it appears that even if the ratio of fall-offs to rubbed-offs is 100:1, I still would not pass up a rubbed tree if I was shed hunting. 
And good luck with Collage.. :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #24 on: March 21, 2010, 01:02:15 AM »
And good luck with Collage.. :chuckle: :chuckle:

I was wondering if someone was going to comment on that. :)
I am not opposed to golf, for I suspect it keeps armies of the unworthy from discovering deer.

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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #25 on: March 21, 2010, 03:18:13 PM »
juct cant catch a break

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Re: Help me settle this feud
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Re: Help me settle this feud
« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2010, 07:18:16 PM »
I agree with boneaddict about Moose based on what I've been told.  I've heard that they'll even wedge them between trees to break off the one that hasn't fallen.  I know I wouldn't want to carry have a dumbbell on my head.  As for finding them, the two elk sheds I found yesterday were out in the open, but they're only my first ones.  I've gotta look more often ... or get out more.
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