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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.

The display was designed to mount on a wall but kinda got stuck in the back corner of the bench right now. Left skull is made from stainless steel tubing, center skull is natural from a deadhead that had the nose shot off and the right skull is from Type-L hard drawn copper.

I can't believe it has taken me months to get around to reading such a great story. I'm 73 myself and I've not seen elk hooves worn like that but I do know what it feels like. A few years back my son and I were on a three day antler hunting trip. On the second day my feet began to feel quite...

Been there many a year. The skull was split in two with mostly just the skull cap remaining. The skull cap was spliced back together and the skull was finished off with a steel replacement and stitched to the skull cap with stainless steel wire.

Once this year I couldn't use the main driveway to my house because a crewcab pickup had it blocked. Four people were in the truck and two in the field just over the fence in the pasture that belonged to my friend. The "hunters" were eyeballing the deer around the front of my house and on my...

By clicking on the pictures you can see the mounting system. You shape the pedicle to the burr (not the burr to the pedicle) and then use the magic spell called 'Hook and Gravity'.

So.......after two days I finally get to see shat he has been up to. 'Not the tallest nor the widest.......' and 'Not the tallest nor the widest II.......' side by side. No holes drilled in or screws/bolts placed in the antlers. They all come off in seconds.

He is making the skull for the set that he found a coupla days ago. Somewhat bigger than 'Not the tallest nor the widest.......'

So....the bear was killed during the encounter but no details have been released.

I'm wondering who killed the bear. Was it the shed hunter?

I guess the bears are now guarding the antlers in Wyoming. Antlers and Griz

Yeah, something like this guy found years earlier........

......but some of the heaviest found this year. Left side was found in an small bare spot with 12-18" of snow all around. Tracks say the elk had been chewing on it. Weeks later, after the snow melted, the right side was some 60 yards away. Steel prosthetic tips were made by the skull creator to...

I believe the distance and the glassing. Cannot speak to the winter kill in your area. Yesterday there was a shed hunter in our area that hiked for 16 hours and picked up 8 brown elk sheds. Every shed was spotted with the binoculars first. Two additional sheds were far enough away he had to get...

I'm not in Wyoming but you are not alone. Heavily traveled trails along creek bottoms or in tall brush or willows seem to be the worst spots. Ten minutes in one gulch around here and you'll have 50 ticks on you. Other areas you can hike for hours and not get one.

No cedars in our country. Here antlers are mostly in elevations between 6,000'-9,000'. Sheds are found in the sagebrush, grass, mahogany & pines. Get up high and glass down below you and across the canyon. Glass 20 yds to a mile away. Antlers are on the ridges, slopes facing South, West, East...

Excellent advice. Seller......be prepared for the buyer by knowing what you have. My son sold his antlers Tuesday. He graded and weighed the antlers before the buyer arrived. He graded them in such a way that the buyer would most likely regrade some of them higher.....as he did. Everybody left...

Thankfully almost all of that stuff is our neighbor's. Very nice neighbor though. However.......our junk pile (not shown) is at least as big. I'll have my son get on our junk piles later as, yes, he is still hauling antlers right now.

But the boy had a tough hike out.