Sheds.

[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.

 

[Big Sky Guy]

Predator hunting and or defence would be my guess.

But why post the gun with the shed? Just never seen that before and I’ve seen hundreds of shed pics by now lol.

 

[sshhh]

But why post the gun with the shed? Just never seen that before and I’ve seen hundreds of shed pics by now lol.

Hahah not sure, never done it either.

 

[limpet]

But why post the gun with the shed? Just never seen that before and I’ve seen hundreds of shed pics by now lol.

They’re mostly from @Steve300xcw. It looks like he’s out hunting and putting a rifle in for scale.

 

[Steve300xcw]

But why post the gun with the shed? Just never seen that before and I’ve seen hundreds of shed pics by now lol.

Did you have any pics of blacktail sheds?

 

[limpet]

Found this old crusty forky at work today. Pretty cool kicker coming off the back

 

[<cascadehunter>]

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What do you do for work? I worked on a survey crew for a year and change out of high school and picked up the only two BT sheds I’ve ever found.
We saw some dandy bucks and bulls. I got to see the whole process from staking clearing limits on raw land all the way to putting brass in finished streets on the same site months later.
None of it ever seemed to interrupt the deers day to day. At least not until houses started going up.

 

[sshhh]

What do you do for work? I worked on a survey crew for a year and change out of high school and picked up the only two BT sheds I’ve ever found.
We saw some dandy bucks and bulls. I got to see the whole process from staking clearing limits on raw land all the way to putting brass in finished streets on the same site months later.
None of it ever seemed to interrupt the deers day to day. At least not until houses started going up.

Was going to ask if he is a logger

 

[limpet]

What do you do for work? I worked on a survey crew for a year and change out of high school and picked up the only two BT sheds I’ve ever found.
We saw some dandy bucks and bulls. I got to see the whole process from staking clearing limits on raw land all the way to putting brass in finished streets on the same site months later.
None of it ever seemed to interrupt the deers day to day. At least not until houses started going up.

I’m a forester. I’ve done land surveying when we had an in-house survey crew. Blacktail sheds are definitely tough to find on the coast.

Was going to ask if he is a logger

I cant drink that many energy drinks I just get the brunt of their frustration.

 

[sshhh]

I’m a forester. I’ve done land surveying when we had an in-house survey crew. Blacktail sheds are definitely tough to find on the coast.

I cant drink that many energy drinks I just get the brunt of their frustration.

Okay figured somethin to do in Forestry. I'd imagine land surveying a guy would find some stuff forusre. Up here there are some wintering areas where Blacktails do congregate in greater numbers (I don't hunt them but have plans to do some scouting), but most of the mountains they just adjust elevation as needed year to year, this is what happens in all of my current main BT spots so the sheds are definitely hard to come by.

N Lol!

 

[welkin]

Friend found this nice one on the coast

 

[welkin]

I found these at work yesterday. In an area in between reedsport and elkton, OR. They look a lot like whitetail antlers to me, there are Columbia whitetail in the Umpqua valley, about 40 miles away. I've asked a couple friends and opinions are split on if these are blacktail or whitetail sheds. Thoughts?

 

[Steve300xcw]

Ask odfw. They'll tell you the truth..

I'm leaning blacktail though

 

[SanAntonioShooter]

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

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First 5 point shed

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Nice!

 

[welkin]

Ask odfw. They'll tell you the truth..

I'm leaning blacktail though

I actually did this and spoke to a biologist who said he couldn't call it one way or the other. But that it also might be a hybrid. Had no idea they could interbreed.

 

[whoop]

odfw won't be much help, they specialize in predators.

 

[TheM1DoesMyTalking]

I have a picture of this buck somewhere, only found one of his sheds.