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.

 

[Steve300xcw]

 

[Steve300xcw]

First 5 point shed

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

 

[Steve300xcw]

 

[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.

 

[Steve300xcw]

I've killed two 5 points, and they were both like the pic hoodie posted. With that extra tine in the rear fork.

Different areas though....