Found a shed?

[marshall brown]

While sitting in my stand this evening I noticed a shed lying on a trail about 10 yds. away. Nothing special, only a spikes horn about 8 inches long. I'm pretty sure I've seen this buck at least two times in the early season and he looked very healthy. At dark I picked it up on my way out and it still had blood on the base. I'd say it happened sometime today. I was just wondering if anybody else has ever found a shed in December?

[Killdeer]

I saw some but they hadn't come off yet.   :D
Saw a spiker and a couple other bucks that wouldn't let me count. Then about a mile from them, I saw a forkie chasing two fawns.

Killdeer

[twosheds]

I shed hunt quite a bit and I have never found one in December. The earliest I've found a shed is February 12th. I've heard several people this year have already started to find them. Tripper

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

We find them here in WV every yr in December, well I should say my Brittany Spaniel does. Of course our buck to doe ratio is way out of wack and I feel this has caused this over a long period of time. Me and one of my buddies found an matched set last December at work.

Jack

[Orion]

A friend of mine killed a buck in the northern part of the state a few days ago.  Had antlers when he shot it.  But both came loose as dragged it back to the truck.

[dino]

Found one on Christmas Eve a couple years back.  Lost that day or late the previous day because I had just walked the farm road the day before and it wasn't there then.  Never found another shed that year till late Feb or March.  So I've seen it but I think it is pretty rare. dino

[Steel]

Saw a fesh drop last year in Dec on a wheat field. Two years ago a friend daughter shot a doe during our Dec special fall rifle doe season it turned out to be a small buck that had shed already.I would say most deer drop them after Feb here

[ishiwannabe]

I have a buddy that shot a doe last year during boomstick season(last three weeks of Nov and the first week of Dec....roughly). Got up to "her" and found out it was a big ole' buck that dropped his antlers already.

[marshall brown]

I just wondered if maybe it had to do with the lack of mast this year? Like I said it appeared to be very healthy though. Jack, our heard ratio is also very imbalanced. Does anybody think this could have that effect on the timing of their shedding?

[going trad]

a few years back a shot a "doe" on December 14th, turns out it was a buck that shed his antlers already.

[ChuckC]

Jerry.  in that case, is it considered "antlerless" (for tagging purpose)
ChuckC

[CBH]

Last week, two days before Christmas, I had a little buck walk past me that had recently dropped one side. This seems a bit earlier than usual.

[kennym]

A local guy here found a pair of small antlers already.

I find most of mine from the tractor seat.....

[K.S.TRAPPER]

I need to get my trail cams back out. They have been dropping for a couple of weeks now and that's about right around here. Most will drop in January,Feburary.

I don't know about the food thing but this is about the way it happens every year in my area. Of course I had 4 coyotes chase 10 bucks past me while I was cutting wood late last Feburary and they all had there racks.    

Tracy

[RightTrailWrongTime]

I found a shed 20 yards behind my stand the day after Christmas last year...earliest I've ever found one.

[zipper bowss]

I just took a doe to the meat house today,there were several other deer there to be processed.The owner is a friend  of mine as we were talking  he ponted to a big bodied doe and said check this buck out.It turned out he had 2 bucks there that were killed over the weekend that had already shed both sides of there rack.
Bill

[adeeden]

A freind found one this year in Indiana last week.

[Aeronut]

I've never found one this early.  Around here I have regularly seen bucks that still had one and a lot of times both antlers in mid April.

Dennis

[bowhunterfrompast]

Originally posted by Orion:
A friend of mine killed a buck in the northern part of the state a few days ago.  Had antlers when he shot it.  But both came loose as dragged it back to the truck.

A friend of mine did the same thing one year. IMHO..I think some bucks just shed early and some bucks keep them longer.

[jacobsladder]

Heres a matching set of sheds i found a few years back... found one stuck in a brush pile and the other 50 yds away on a well used trail... Jason (whitebuffalo) did a sweet job of mounting them for me as a gift...