Shed Hunting Made Easy

[The Vanilla Gorilla]

Yall made have seen this before but I just got it in my email today.


How fast you think that deer had to be traveling to sink that antler in that far?  Doh!

 

 

[joe vt]

Wow!!

Is it photoshop'd or real?

[CheapShot]

Way cool. That would make a heck of a lamp for your archery room. If you were allowed to cut the tree. Thanks for sharing.

[Arwin]

Thats awesome! You can tell by the tree that your looking at a real picture. Maybe the buck went to rub on the tree and the tree fought back,LOL!

[Ray Lyon]

Geez, I've been looking on the ground all this time.

I guess big racks do "grow on trees".  

[keith brimmer]

THAT deer def got wood

[hormoan]

At least 6 years per mile.    Thats really cool, you can fool mother nature once in a while. I don't think that long though.    

                Brent

[hormoan]

And make a note of what ever kind of tree pruner one of them has!


                 Brent    

Whats that you got?

[OconeeDan]

Thanks for sharing those photos.  WOW!
Dan

[ishiwannabe]

Thats cool.

[bbassi]

Man that would make a really cool lamp. Maybe a standing reading light. Be right back.... going to go stick some sheds in the Aspens out back, be back in 5 years.  

[jonsimoneau]

That is really unusual.  Great picture.  Makes you wonder how old that shed is...and I'm surprised the squirrels did not get to it!

[vermonster13]

I told them planting antlers wouldn't grow big bucks, but did they listen? Nooooooooooooo

[Forester]

Very cool!

It looks like you can see the remainder of the limb it was hung over.  As the tree grew out (diameter) it pushed on the antler a little, forcing it more "upright" until it finally started to grow around it.  Now the hanging limb is little more than a knot and the tree is claiming the bone.

I imagine somehwere out there is a hunter that hung a shed in a tree so they could pick it up and carry it out at the end of the day.  Either couldn't find it again or was led in another direction by a good bloodtrail.....

And what do you mean easy?  I'm with Ray, I've been looking on the ground - now I have to look up for antlers?  This keeps getting harder.....

[BillJ]

I think Forester nailed it.  Trees grow out, and they grow up from the top.  Old fence wire that was anchored at 3 feet from the ground 100 years ago is still 3 feet from the ground today.  That antler would have been at the same height it is today when it was first placed there.  That would have required one tall deer to get it up there.  

Cool pic, though.  I think I'd check into the lamp idea.  Definitely a conversation starter (especially since you wouldn't be able to tell how high it was from the ground once you cut it down and make a lamp out of it!)  

BillJ

[VTer]

I hope someone puts a tennis ball on that point. Someone could get an eye poked out.  

[formerbutcher]

Very cool ! I found a shed one year about 4 feet up in a tree branch, I think the buck was feeding on the brows and it lost it's antler.

Ya there not only on the ground !!