Biggest Shed in General Unit, LE, Private

Elkrazy01 · Feb 28, 2020

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.

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.

hornkiller · Feb 28, 2020

public land over the counter unit
201"

Cooper · Feb 28, 2020

That’s a bad ass deer

Cooper · Feb 28, 2020

Cooper · Feb 28, 2020

Those are sheds that I had mounted

hornkiller · Feb 29, 2020

You ever put a tape on him cooper?

antlerradar · Feb 29, 2020

My bet elk sheds are from private land in a limited entry unit.
Would net 400 with a 42 inch spread.

Cooper · Feb 29, 2020

Those are probably the biggest elk sheds I’ve ever seen

Cooper · Feb 29, 2020

Yea, it was around 208? If I remember correct

NVPete · Mar 6, 2020

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.

eVerbrowns · Mar 6, 2020

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

Cooper · Mar 6, 2020

That’s a cool set of horns!!!

Sallaberry · Mar 6, 2020

160” bull biggest I’ve found

Sallaberry · Mar 6, 2020

99.5 shed biggest mule deer shed I’ve ever seen public land but could take 10 years to draw as a resident

Cooper · Mar 6, 2020

You have some cool sheds!

PETA · Mar 7, 2020

Biggest typical, easy draw Utah unit

Tikka · Mar 7, 2020

All public general season unit

Tikka · Mar 7, 2020

Tikka said:
All public general season unit
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All 3 were summer running mates, as of last year the bottom one was the only still alive...

antlerradar · Mar 7, 2020

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.

buckhorn · Mar 8, 2020

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.

Tikka · Mar 8, 2020

buckhorn said:
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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

buckhorn · Mar 8, 2020

Tikka said:
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.

Bambam · Mar 9, 2020

LE

X7ahunter · Mar 10, 2020

Biggest shed was on a draw unit, biggest lion kill was on general OTC.

Blue Mountain Muleys · Mar 31, 2020

This is the biggest mule deer shed I've found. It scored 79" on the left. I'm still trying to find the other side.

pushin_30 · Mar 31, 2020

largest muley shed was on a general unit. 94" broke
largest elk shed was on a LE unit 157"

bucksnducks · Apr 1, 2020

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.