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Title: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
Post by: bearpaw 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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Post by: NWBREW on December 09, 2011, 12:06:06 PM: That's a cool moose shed. Nice find.
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Post by: Hornseeker 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!
Title: Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
Post by: bearpaw 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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Post by: deerslyr on December 09, 2011, 12:27:55 PM: Quote from: bearpaw on December 09, 2011, 12:12:01 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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Post by: Arteman 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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Post by: Shed Stud on December 09, 2011, 03:10:48 PM: :tup:
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Post by: Buckhunter24 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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Post by: HornHoarder 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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Post by: Devinshoe 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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Post by: carpsniperg2 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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Post by: Elkslayer on December 09, 2011, 11:51:30 PM: Cool shed Bearpaw!
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Post by: shedcrazy on December 10, 2011, 08:28:29 AM: Nice find, my earliest was a muley set the week before christmas
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Post by: C-Money on December 10, 2011, 08:33:02 AM: Very cool! :tup:
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Post by: RB on December 10, 2011, 08:40:36 AM: Cool find :tup:
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Post by: link 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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Post by: bearpaw 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!
Title: Re: Earliest Shed I've Ever Found
Post by: hunterofelk 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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Post by: jess 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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Post by: Kowsrule30 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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Post by: Seabass 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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Post by: Buckhunter24 on December 22, 2011, 03:50:48 PM: Quote from: Seabass 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.

Coulda mounted them back on him and gave him a couple extra inches on his spread :chuckle:
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Post by: Idahocougar on December 22, 2011, 08:20:59 PM: Nice find :tup: I'm looking forward to picking up a few myself.