Recent content by heyoldguy

Actually it's beginning to look like, in this area, it may be pretty common for older bucks to pick an area to shed. The antler hunting son was checking out a hard to get to hillside below a ridge and found six years of antlers from one buck. For four years, way high up on a mountain, another...

Gotta be honest....I wouldn't shoot him if I could. I would like my son (who has collected these antlers), my grandson and my great grandson to be able to collect antlers from his offspring. There are plenty of ugly bucks to cull from the herds. My son has passed on some nice bucks this past...

We now have found 5 years from one of our favorite bucks. First two shots of him up close and then him on our swivel quad-mount with four consecutive years and a right shed from an earlier year in the middle.

A fairly good euro mount can still be made from sawed off antlers.

Pieces and parts to make a European mount. Steel skullcap, right eye socket and nose from a real skull, right antler is a heavy brown three my son packed out 8 miles and the left is some old lichen covered and chewed relic.

Found another picture with it installed on a wall......

'Not the Tallest nor the Widest' figured he had better go with a droptine this year.