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Title: Fresh brown
Post by: time2hunt on December 27, 2020, 06:39:57 PM: Had a one horn buck drop the other side as he ran across ridge the other day. I would say it’s a little early to get to exited 😜(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201228/8a8eddaba9579796cd290eec2be8d2cc.jpg)

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Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: ThurstonCokid on December 27, 2020, 06:41:45 PM: Interesting! Seems pretty early

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Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: Rainier10 on December 28, 2020, 06:27:10 PM: Cleaned up and unlocked. It’s a shed hunting thread. Let’s keep it on topic.

Does seem early.

I have seen three unicorns at my cabin maybe they dropped already.
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: highside74 on December 28, 2020, 06:29:33 PM: Quote from: ThurstonCokid on December 27, 2020, 06:41:45 PM
Interesting! Seems pretty early

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Yeah but...

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Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: trophyhunt on December 28, 2020, 07:34:19 PM: I’ve killed deer before in December that I thought was a doe, with my bow. It was a buck. I don’t think it’s rare, I just think it’s a start. Pretty cool to find one so early though!
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: MADMAX on December 28, 2020, 07:46:41 PM: :yeah:

Same here
Back in the day you could hunt Bangor sub base
Bio told me it was a 16 year old buck in poor health
Lotta burger that year :chuckle:
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: nwwanderer on December 30, 2020, 07:53:35 AM: With this snow more will be on the ground, whitetail
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: dilleytech on December 30, 2020, 08:04:01 AM: I had a pic of a buck in late November missing one side. I start in late Jan. Getting close
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: Fletch on December 30, 2020, 04:04:43 PM: Strangely enough we have been seeing a number of one horned deer during deer season. Two yrs ago we saw a 4 pt during muzzy season, saw same buck during rifle season with one horn. A friend of mine shot it. took some pics, threw it in pickup and when we got back to skin it the other horn had popped off....? WTH? Too much canola or what?
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: nwwanderer on December 30, 2020, 04:09:05 PM: More like not enough canola, they tend to come off whitetail when things get tough
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: jstone on December 30, 2020, 05:03:59 PM: So does that work for all deer? Not enough nutrition and they lose them sooner?
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: nwwanderer on December 31, 2020, 05:32:59 AM: Have not seen it with mule deer so much, certainly not with elk, some one on the wet side needs to help with the BT, no idea.
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: Southpole on December 31, 2020, 08:15:08 AM: Quote from: trophyhunt on December 28, 2020, 07:34:19 PM
I’ve killed deer before in December that I thought was a doe, with my bow. It was a buck. I don’t think it’s rare, I just think it’s a start. Pretty cool to find one so early though!
:yeah: Especially for whitetail. Early to mid December is not unusually for shedding. I found a fresh dropped whitetail antler on Christmas Eve day.
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: buckfvr on December 31, 2020, 09:08:46 AM: Earliest wt Ive found here in 121 was dec 19th with several matures over the years dropping Xmas eve and day, with others dropping early jan.
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: Buckhunter24 on December 31, 2020, 09:39:35 AM: I shot a blacktail last day of late muzzleloader and the horns popped off of him. Ive been meaning to get them mounted on a skull, only been 15 or 20 years.

Seems to me the order is generally moose drop first, then blacktail/muley, then whitetail, then elk. A few years back I bumped into 4 nice bull moose still packing early February, and have seen them drop as early as November 15, so its definitely variable.
Title: Fresh brown
Post by: benhuntin on December 31, 2020, 12:58:40 PM: Quote from: Buckhunter24 on December 31, 2020, 09:39:35 AM
I shot a blacktail last day of late muzzleloader and the horns popped off of him. Ive been meaning to get them mounted on a skull, only been 15 or 20 years.

Seems to me the order is generally moose drop first, then blacktail/muley, then whitetail, then elk. A few years back I bumped into 4 nice bull moose still packing early February, and have seen them drop as early as November 15, so its definitely variable.
I agree with the order except I would put whitetails before Mulies for sure.

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Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: BlackRiverTaxidermy on December 31, 2020, 05:07:35 PM: Had a guy bring a blacktail in yesterday that he got with his bow...horns already she’s. He was shooting anything to fill the freezer and when he walked up to the deer after a short track was surprised to see the freshly dropped button. No luck on finding the antlers...but he still wants the skull euro’d just to see how the shedded off skull looks. Seems pretty dang early!
Title: Re: Fresh brown
Post by: blackveltbowhunter on December 31, 2020, 05:52:37 PM: Several years ago I found a fresh 2 point shed Thanksgiving weekend, BT. A few year back a member here posted a buck he killed that the horns popped off in the final bed. I tracked a buck a few years back that his compadre dropped a bonus shed while I tracked the one I was after. That was mid December. I have killed several late [ after the 15th of december] including a few last day bucks and all have been tight. Saw a tall spike today.

I don't think its unusual for them to shed prior to the 15th, but I still believe it is predominantly the exception rather than the rule. Good bucks still packing into mid /late february in BT.