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.

 

[Smokey Bear]

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Love that last photo! Nice place!

 

[Steve300xcw]

Love that last photo! Nice place!

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

 

[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?

 

[Steve300xcw]

Same one you're in

 

[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.

 

[Steve300xcw]

 

[BC03]

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