Ok, I could do that at about 70knots out the window of the cub--I can not find a place within 5 miles to land and never seem to have the time to go get them. I think I know at least some of the reasons people shed hunt, I would like to know if there is any interest in shed hunting in Alaska and just what, if any value there is in sheds.
If it helps, I know that since the couple of times I have been up there I don't have time to shed hunt, but want to extend my collection so I have bought moose sheds at a price of $11 a pound and caribou at $13/lb. A 230" moose would be worth around $600 each but as a pair...more than $2500
There are 3 grades or qualities of sheds. 1st grade is perfect, not broken and brown. 2nd grade is white with no cracking or brown with several chewed/broken tips. 3rd is nasty old cracked white antlers. Typically all grade 3 antlers sell from $1-$3 a lb. the others depend on the type of animal.
That's pretty good money at that per pound price. I haven't done that well selling mine by the pound but I have done ok. I have boxed mine up and shipped them to Montana and sold most to the artist that carve and paint them. I've never had a problem moving them and always turned a buck. I have done lot's of flying around the Tikchik's and the ones we would see where we could not land in a near-by pond we would waypoint with the GPS and then head back out in late Dec or Jan and try and find them while on the snow machines. I never really picked up a trophy class set but the boy's in Montana thought they all looked huge. I did pick up a pair of shed elk horns in Montana that went book and my taxidermist took them off my hands for a strong price.
