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Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« on: December 09, 2011, 11:58:46 AM »
I'm not a devoted shed hunter but I spend a fair amount of time in the field and on Nov 26 while moose hunting I spotted this shed laying on top of a fresh snow from that morning. We saw the bull 3 times during the hunt and he still had the other side in tact the last time we saw him....

sorry we were unable to get a pic of the moose himself...   :bash:
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 12:06:06 PM »
That's a cool moose shed. Nice find.
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2011, 12:10:12 PM »
It'd be cooler if it was a massive whitetail shed!!!

I have a buddy that was feeding deer one fall and on November 27th a buck came in with one horn, 2 days later, he had none. he never foudn either!
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2011, 12:12:01 PM »
he's just a little guy but when I see em I pick em up....  :tup:
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2011, 12:27:55 PM »
he's just a little guy but when I see em I pick em up....  :tup:

You might of been able to pass that off as a monster nontyp WT shed  :chuckle: cool find

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2011, 12:30:20 PM »
Nice, I'd like to find a few moose sheds.  None anywhere close to me though.  Cool find!   :tup:
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2011, 03:10:48 PM »
 :tup:

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2011, 05:54:07 PM »
Nice! Earliest Ive picked up a shed was dec 15th.. Im out east now hoping to go up to maine to get some moose sheds soon

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2011, 06:00:53 PM »
Thats nice to see :drool:  Last year I found a muley shed Dec. 13th. That was my eariest.

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2011, 10:45:12 PM »
Sweet find!  You got me thinking about going out tomorrow to find some paddles!

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2011, 11:36:15 PM »
That is very very cool! Man I see a killer knife handle right there :drool: :chuckle:
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2011, 11:51:30 PM »
Cool shed Bearpaw!
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #12 on: December 10, 2011, 08:28:29 AM »
Nice find, my earliest was a muley set the week before christmas

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2011, 08:33:02 AM »
Very cool!  :tup:
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2011, 08:40:36 AM »
Cool find  :tup:
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #15 on: December 10, 2011, 09:17:17 AM »
A couple years ago, a kid I know was deer hunting over by moses lake in the general season. He shot a nice buck, it ran into some brush and a doe came out the other side and tipped over. He got up to it and at first was extremely upset, thinking he had shot a doe somehow. It had dropped its antlers while behind that brush I guess. He found them and they were just like fresh sheds with the bloody peds. This was in october, and a mature buck. Maybe too mature?? :dunno:

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #16 on: December 10, 2011, 09:40:55 AM »
My earliest shed prior to this:

I was snowmobiling looking for cougar tracks on Dec 20 and found where a buck had stuck his antlers in the snowmobile trail and left them both side by side, stuck in the snow, just like he left them. Wished I had a photo, it was pretty cool looking. It was a nice buck too!
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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #17 on: December 10, 2011, 09:46:33 AM »
Moose usually shed first.  When I lived in Montana, a neighbor shot what he thought was an antlerless(cow) moose, it was a bull that had shed both sides.  This event happened the last weekend of the season, right after thanksgiving.

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #18 on: December 12, 2011, 11:13:59 PM »
christmas eve a couple years ago i found a 150 inch whitetail set about a hundred yards apart... Thats the earliest for me....

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2011, 11:23:24 PM »
It was early ML season a few years ago..... Found a small 3 point shed.... Probably a benchleg..... Looked like it was at least a few years old though...  :chuckle:  So I've got you all beat so far right????   :dunno:   Not chewed on or anything.... Just bleached out on both sides!!!     :chuckle: 

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #20 on: December 21, 2011, 12:08:26 PM »
I found a matching ste of whitetail sheds at my stand on December 13th 2008. The buck actually came in that night and I should have shot him but passed.

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #21 on: December 22, 2011, 03:50:48 PM »
I found a matching ste of whitetail sheds at my stand on December 13th 2008. The buck actually came in that night and I should have shot him but passed.

Coulda mounted them back on him and gave him a couple extra inches on his spread  :chuckle:

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Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2011, 08:20:59 PM »
Nice find  :tup: I'm looking forward to picking up a few myself.

 


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