My first time...

HIcountryman · Feb 19, 2019

This was the first huge antler i found. It was on top of a large rock, about waist-high, on steep hillside/canyon wall. Someone or something dragged it up there? Or maybe it was dropped on rock by buck?

It has 6" bases and a cool curly point between front and back forks.

buckhorn · Feb 19, 2019

Dang nice horn they're good find.
When I find sheds I don't feel like packing out I usually set them on top of a rock or hang them in a tree.
I think I would have carried that one out though.

MT_55 · Feb 20, 2019

Very Cool! I would say that someone either left it there by complete accident and couldn't find the spot again OR it was dragged by a critter of some sort. Just too unlikely that it fell off and on to a rock.. Unless of course,, if the rock was big enough for a deer to be standing on it or it would be a place for a deer to be...

HIcountryman · Feb 20, 2019

It was a steep hillside so it could have gotten there from top side of rock. My first thought-for some reason-was that a porcupine had dragged it up there. It gave me the antler hunting bug, for sure. I was still a nonresident and it made me establish residency and start researching hunting muleys immediately. It was five years before i connected on my first mule deer! Couldnt wrap my head around the fact that muleys like rocks and brush instead of forests of spruce... i saw tons of ek those first few years.

ditchparrot · Mar 13, 2019

Believe it or not, I know some guys who won't pick up shed horns. Guess they're to much of an inconvenience I'll don't understand. And they kill 200" bucks but shed's don't do anything for them.. Weird I know.