Sheds.

[limpet]

I’ve been seeing bucks running around with one antler or flat topped for a bit. Let’s see those blacktail sheds. Here’s some older ones.

20 years too late for this one
Various 3 pts

Not a huge frame but the bases on this guy are huge



First 5 point shed

 

[Jmunson90]

Couple of days worth. Haven’t really gone “hunting them” but running into them when I’m out and about checking cattle.

 

[limpet]

Couple of days worth. Haven’t really gone “hunting them” but running into them when I’m out and about checking cattle.

Heck yeah. I wish I spent more time in more grassy open country. Finding sheds in coastal brush is tough. I can’t imagine how many I’ve walked past.

 

[Jmunson90]

Heck yeah. I wish I spent more time in more grassy open country. Finding sheds in coastal brush is tough. I can’t imagine how many I’ve walked past.

I hear ya, I go through places many, many times a year and often find year old, or two, sheds that I’ve walked past several times. Grazing critters certainly help find them.

 

[welkin]

Found these yesterday

 

[Hoodie]

Some of my best from the last three years. Northern OR Cascades.

 

[limpet]

Some of my best from the last three years. Northern OR Cascades.

Good grief those are some chunky sheds. Pretty country too.

 

[limpet]

Have never seen a 5 point like that. Super cool!

That drainage holds some bucks like that. I saw one with that had the same pattern last winter in a thinning and never saw him again. There’s a lot of bucks but finding them is tough. It’s all cable/helicopter ground that’s 30-40 year old brush holes so they get one hop off the road and you’ll never see them again.

 

[Smokey Bear]

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Love that last photo! Nice place!

 

[Smokey Bear]

Its one of those places where you look at it, and just wonder how that came to be

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Can I just ask what state?

 

[Hoodie]

Good grief those are some chunky sheds. Pretty country too.

Yeah our bucks don't seem to get the tine length that the southern OR/northern CA deer do. Once they hit 5 years old or so they just seem to get heavier and heavier each year. I'm a sucker for mass though, so I don't mind a heavy deer that doesn't "score."

I read someone else on here say this recently, but blacktails really do seem to have the most physical diversity of any NA deer. It's wild how much body size and antler configuration can change over fairly short distances.

 

[Hoodie]

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What an absolute unit of a buck.

 

[BC03]

Best 2 this year so far:and a set I found:

 

[limpet]

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Very nice. My buddy killed a 5 point like that a few years back.

 

[Tobias]

 

[sshhh]

No sheds yet, but I did find this deadhead when scouting a new spot i've had eyes on for years. Needless to say I put up 4 cams couple weeks later lol. Exceptional Mass on the bases. Last pic you can see the size of the pedicles next to a Buck I took last year (probably have to zoom in a bit). I have already learned exactly how I will hunt this place after only spending 2 days there, couple very good set ups I have found. If there are some nice 4x4s with his bases like his around i'll be pretty happy to get a shot.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

What’s with all these rifles in the pics? You guys shooting the antlers off or something?

 

[limpet]

No sheds yet, but I did find this deadhead when scouting a new spot i've had eyes on for years. Needless to say I put up 4 cams couple weeks later lol. Exceptional Mass on the bases. Last pic you can see the size of the pedicles next to a Buck I took last year (probably have to zoom in a bit). I have already learned exactly how I will hunt this place after only spending 2 days there, couple very good set ups I have found. If there are some nice 4x4s with his bases around i'll be pretty happy to get a shot.

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Those are some heavy bases. Cool find. Hopefully your cams aren’t fully of cat pictures.

 

[limpet]

What’s with all these rifles in the pics? You guys shooting the antlers off or something?

Thats all I do. I consider it counting coup.

 

[sshhh]

What’s with all these rifles in the pics? You guys shooting the antlers off or something?

Predator hunting and or defence would be my guess.