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Other Activities => Shed Hunting => Topic started by: Timber on June 07, 2009, 01:53:25 PM

Title: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: Timber on June 07, 2009, 01:53:25 PM: Found a shed yesterday in the bottom of a creek. It must have fallen off as he jumped across. Now every time I see a stick submerged in a creek I will be doing a double take.
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: Skinner on June 07, 2009, 02:00:22 PM: Did it stink? JoeVon found one a couple years back and ended up throwing it away it stunk so bad!
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Post by: bowhunterforever on June 07, 2009, 02:12:31 PM: Thats a weird place to find a shed. 8)
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Post by: JoeVon on June 07, 2009, 05:58:52 PM: Man, I can smell that thing from here...Yuck.

I really regret not having a camera to take pictures of a five point elk shed I found two years ago in the middle of a huge wallow. When I walked up on it, all I could see were the top two tines sticking up out of the mud. It was something I doubt I'll ever see again.

Did you end up keeping that shed?
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: BC CHASER on June 07, 2009, 09:43:23 PM: I have 2 buddies who have found blacktail sheds in 3 ft. of water in lakes!
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: Timber on June 07, 2009, 09:48:02 PM: I did keep it and it does stink a little. I'll see if I can get the stink off of it somehow.
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: BC CHASER on June 07, 2009, 09:50:39 PM: Let it sit outside for the summer and it should stop stinking.
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Post by: jager on June 08, 2009, 12:29:10 AM: That's really cool.

I found a moose shed in the Nushagak river in AK...didnt stink
My nephew found an elk shed in the Coeur d'Alene river that stunk!

Keep your eyes open!
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Post by: saylean on June 08, 2009, 03:13:44 PM: cool find man...good eyes
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Post by: longear on June 09, 2009, 08:39:20 PM: Pretty odd spot to find a shed. Good eye. Cool pic.
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Post by: LOVHUNTIN on June 11, 2009, 05:03:58 PM: nice spot job
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Post by: skybusterbo on June 12, 2009, 03:08:16 PM: :yeah:
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Post by: 7mmfan on June 13, 2009, 08:27:31 AM: A few years ago my uncle in Minnesota found an bull elk skull sticking out of the mud on the side of a river bank. He took it to a local geologist and the guy estimated it to be more than 300 years old. The sandy mud had preserved it really well. It was a beautiful bull, big 5x6.
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on June 22, 2009, 03:49:56 PM: There was an article in Bugle about a Elk skull and horns that were found in a bog, somewhere in KY or WV if I remember correctly. Said to be something like 500 years old. :)
Title: Re: Underwater Elk Shed
Post by: Hornseeker on June 22, 2009, 04:11:33 PM: When I worked in Oly Nat park I found 4 sheds in the rivers and many more on the river banks where they would certainly be washed further into the river at some point...gravel bars and such...

Cool!