Biggest Shed in General Unit, LE, Private

Did you find your biggest shed in a general unit public, LE unit, or on Private land

  • Elk/General unit public land

    Votes: 12 22.2%
  • Elk/LE Unit Private or Public

    Votes: 16 29.6%
  • Elk/General Unit Private Land

    Votes: 2 3.7%
  • Deer/General unit public land

    Votes: 26 48.1%
  • Deer/LE Unit Private or Public

    Votes: 17 31.5%
  • Deer/General Unit Private Land

    Votes: 5 9.3%

  • Total voters
    54

Elkrazy01

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With the post on the mule deer page about where you killed your biggest deer, it got me thinking about where you found your biggest shed. Was it in a general unit/OTC unit on public land. A LE unit/2+ years to draw unit. Or was it in a general unit but private land. It can be hard to know where the animal you found lived during the hunting seasons, so you can answer either based on the physical location of the shed, or where you believe the animal lived when it wasn't wintering.

My largest deer shed came was physical located on general unit, public land. But I'm 95% sure he lived on an LE unit private land. 84" shed. I found the match 70 yards away but it was only 78". I have another shed that's almost identical score wise, but not as big of a shed in my opinion that was general unit public.
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My largest elk shed was on an LE unit that takes 15+ points. No pics of it with me currently. 370 class bull, 3-4 year old shed. my dad ended up finding the pair a few hundred yards away.

And my largest moose shed was off the best unit in my state, and the only max points unit to my knowledge. Took me 3 days of searching to find the set. Scores 134" without a spread credit. Best guess is he laid out 48-52" wide. No reason for a poll on moose since they are all LE units in the continental U.S.
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My biggest elk shed! In 2009, I stumbled upon a huge elk shed(left side). I traded it away to a young fella who had the match. The set ended up on the RMEF elk tour as "415 gross Nevada sheds bull". After a year, the mount was returned to owner.

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Biggest elk single on a limited entry unit public land/biggest deer single on a general unit public land and biggest deer set on a general unit public
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I found nine antlers from this buck. This set is the best. Right at 200 typical frame with 18 inches of extras. Public land OTC unit when I found them.
Eight of the nine antlers. The ninth was from when the buck was a young two or maybe three year old. Didn't think much of it at the time so I left it in the hills. Kind of wish I wouldn't have now.
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This is my biggest mule deer shed. I found it about 20 years ago in the general unit in southern Utah about 50 miles south of Escalante.
This left side scores 102 inches.
I looked pretty hard for the right side but never did find it.
 
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This is my biggest mule deer shed. I found it about 20 years ago in the general unit in southern Utah about 50 miles south of Escalante.
This left side scores 102 inches.
I looked pretty hard for the right side but never did find it.

Nice find!

It always makes me wonder what happened to antlers like that, where’s the other side and where the buck made its final resting place...

Good stuff
 
Nice find!

It always makes me wonder what happened to antlers like that, where’s the other side and where the buck made its final resting place...

Good stuff
It’s probable this buck died of old age considering where he was at.
The Johnson brothers may have the other side. They were pulling some sheds out of that country back then.
 
Nice sheds everyone. My biggest deer shed came from public land, not counting antelope island. I think it scored 89”. The shed in my 10 year olds right hand was shed 2 miles from where we filmed him and from the year prior to the live picture.
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