Bone Collecting

[Harold Lee Pickens]

A successful shed hunt at my farm today surprised me. Still have more ground to cover. This is a waterfall below my cabin.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

More and yes all of those found today.

[Phil Yearout]

Nice ones! In all my years of tramping bird covers I can count the number of sheds I've found on 1/2 of one hand, and none as nice that entire skull for sure! My bro-in-law did find one once by backing over it and ruining a tire.

[Joe Dreisch]

Beautiful dogs. Do they help find the antlers? I knew a few Labs that were very good at it. Thanks for sharing the pictures. It's like being there!

[Harold Lee Pickens]

No, didnt have dogs with me. Was going to take one and hopefully run into some woodcock, but hard to keep track of dogs and scan ground for sheds at the same time. Was looking for the sheds of some much bigger deer that frequent the farm. Ive always been fairly successful shed hunting.

[Randy G Roberts]

Good job Harold. I went down to the farm this afternoon and took an hour and 45 minute walk looking for sheds, came back with a big fat zero. Maybe at the Southern you can give me a free eye exam, something's outta whack :)

[Harold Lee Pickens]

I got real lucky today--found so many I had to go back to the truck to get rid of them.

[Richard Flanders]

Antler hunting and selling is a big business up here. Nice fresh moose and caribou antler wholesales at about $6/# last I knew. I sold a huge pair of caribou sheds one year for $125. The main beams were the biggest I have ever seen anywhere. I made a months wages selling a 6ft-long mammoth tusk that was in excellent condition and which I found while prospecting north of Nome some years back. I know of places where there are thousands of pounds of mammoth tusks piled in the bushes at remote placer gold mines, all pretty much disintegrated and shelled up though so with little value, unfortunately.

[Arthur Shaffer]

We hardly ever find a shed in Kentucky because of the abundant mice etc who need the calcium.

I remember once in hunting the Red Desert in Wyoming we found a few acres of open area on the south face of a hill overlooking a canyon. There were so many sheds that you couldn't move a pickup for them. The guide and I spent about 15 minutes picking up and filled an 8 foot pickup bed. Took them back to camp to use as a display. Apparently the key is it was too dry for scavangers to live there.

[Randy G Roberts]

Not hardly Harry. We took two deer off of my property this year and rarely take any real numbers. Six would be a big year when I get a little antsy and tip over a few extra skinheads with the bow in the late season.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Well found the second half of the big 12 pt with split brow tines. It was laying in the yard at the log cabin when I went out to cut grass today.

[Dean Romig]

Wow - Nice Find Harold!!





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[charlie cleveland]

yes sir a nice find indeed....hope you get your sights on this one some time...charlie

[charlie cleveland]

forgot to ask about the log cabin bet it s got some history and deer tails...charlie

[Harold Lee Pickens]

Charlie, my son unfortunately missed that buck with my in-line muzzle loader in January. I need to shoot that gun at the range and make sure it is still on.
The cabin was built down in that hollow between 1825-1830, I bought the property in 1995 and restored the cabin. It is in eastern Ohio in the foothills of the Appalachians. Lots of very big deer roam those hills. A 185 class buck was taken near me earlier this year. There are no corn, soybeans, or other crops anywhere near me, as in other states. Just across the Ohio River in West Virginia, you would be hard pressed to find a buck of that size. In Ohio, the limit is 1 buck per year regardless of method( archery, gun, muzleloader.)
In WV, you can take up to 5 bucks if you get all the tags, they just dont have the opportunity to grow old and big like in Ohio. You can bet i'll be on the lookout for him next year.

[Joseph Sheerin]

About the only time I ever find sheds, is when I am looking for mushrooms.....

Nice finds!

[charlie cleveland]

great storey about the deer and the cabin...thanks charlie

[Phillip Carr]

Found this dead head this week. Unfortunately can't take these off the reservation. We did give a Game warden the GPS coordinates so they could recover.

[allen newell]

Harold, we lived in Minford, Ohio back in the early 70's on top of a mountain. Had 5 acres. Just had to open the back door, go down the mountain and hunt deer and birds all day long. Great memories of Ohio living

[Stan Hillis]

Deer shed antlers are a bane to us here on the farms we own and lease for row-cropping. It looks like deer would be more thoughtful towards farmers who grow the crops they feast upon so freely. But no ......... they willingly leave their sheds all over our fields for our tractor tires to find. :banghead:

We pick up dozens each spring to prevent tire damage from them. That's one of the great things about having GPS tractor and sprayer Auto-Steer ......... we can watch for sheds much better than when we used to have to hold the tractor on a mark left by the row markers on the implements.