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Heres your chance...
« on: October 06, 2008, 11:31:39 AM »
to call me an idiot.  I ran into two bulls that had both shed.  I didn't want to push them since it was spring so I just sat and watched them and they eventually moved on.  I found a couple sheds and was pretty excited.  Well I get back and I take a gander at the picture.  Is that a shed laying in front of him....did he just shed......I go back there a coupel days later and the antler is GONE.  No stick, no log no nothing.  Just boot tracks. 

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #1 on: October 06, 2008, 11:34:36 AM »
 :chuckle: Sh*t happens. That pretty funny tho
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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #2 on: October 06, 2008, 11:40:07 AM »
 :chuckle: That's pretty funny. How far away were you when you took the pic?

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #3 on: October 06, 2008, 12:28:24 PM »
so close but yet so far
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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #4 on: October 06, 2008, 12:48:01 PM »
50 yards.

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #5 on: October 06, 2008, 12:50:45 PM »
IDIOT!!  :chuckle:  Just kidding Bone.  Looks like it was a nice shed too!!

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #6 on: October 06, 2008, 12:54:57 PM »
this might make you feel better ha ha ha
i just had to ....
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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #7 on: October 06, 2008, 04:34:21 PM »
Bone-just convince yourself it was a busted up 3 point.  :chuckle:

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #8 on: October 06, 2008, 04:38:42 PM »
Just a hunch - but if it makes you feel better, it appears that he's not bloody on the pedicle, in fact, it appears to be growing over.  Looks like he shed a week earlier or so.  I'd say he didn't drop that antler (assuming it is one) but is likely on a trail that bulls were using when you caught him there on film.
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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #9 on: October 06, 2008, 04:42:49 PM »
Or it could be the hair still standing up from just dropping. I have seen that before. It stays up a few inches for a while. You really know he just dropped when you see that.

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #10 on: October 06, 2008, 04:51:22 PM »
Well thats sort of what I figured and why I wasn't really paying attention, or paying closer attention to the bull.  I started looking at the picture though and if you have shed hunted much, know that is a very characteristic look.   anyhow.......my loss.  DANG  Usually its an open wound and bright red, though I don't recall what the other side looked like.  He probably dropped it a day or two earlier and just happened to be standing over it. 

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #11 on: October 06, 2008, 05:15:13 PM »
The spot that looks like a antler is just dirty snow and it melted off by the time you got back up there  ;) maybee..... :chuckle:

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #12 on: October 06, 2008, 05:17:09 PM »
Oh good, I feel better now. :)

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #13 on: October 06, 2008, 05:43:14 PM »
Thought that might help  ;)

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Re: Heres your chance...
« Reply #14 on: October 06, 2008, 08:20:08 PM »
That's why you should never take pictures  ;).  That way you would've never known what you missed out on! 

 


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