Curious Usage?

[Basin_Bucks]

I Am Curious What You All Do With The Mass Amounts Of Antlers You All Find, Do You Simply Pile Them Up? Do you Sell? DO You Mount? Do You Construct? DO You Stroke Until Your Heart Is Content...

 

[Basin_Bucks]

I'm A Stroker...

 

[NeverStopHuntin]

Every person that i have talked to that doesn't look for sheds asks me the same question with kind of a weird look on their face.

I pile mine up until i don't have any more room for them then i sell off the small ones. The real joy is when you spot the shed and get to pick it up. At least that is why i do it. I get a surge of adrenaline when i spot a piece of bone laying on the ground that can't even run away. It seems crazy to get so excited over something that is just sitting there but i can't get enough.

 

[BoneJunkie]

I second both of those above comments. If they are big enough I will put them on a mount for the wall.

 

[monstermuleyman]

I don't have nearly the amount of sheds that some of the other MM members have, but every shed i have found this years is just stacked on my desk...

 

[Ungulate]

Everything is just stacked in my basement. I dont know what I am going to do when I have more kids running around but for now I have a dedicated room for them. I also bring home the chalkers and I stack them up against my mail box.

Selling to a buyer is something that you will always regret.

 

[SHEDSTALKER]

I want to construct my own furniture, but for now, I'm just a stroker. I really have no desire to sell them. I love just looking at them.

 

[Hunting_Oregon]

I have them all piled in the garage. I love just going in there and just going through and looking at each horn, it brings back the memory of every hike. Anything big goes into the house. It really P*@!es me off when people just see the horns as a dollar sign. I have never sold a antler and have absolutely NO desire to ever get rid of them.


"Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid."
- John Wayne

 

[eobwhntr]

I'm a stroker, I put to many miles in for my sheds to sell them.

 

[antlerquest]

i sold once. 1100 lbs of deer and elk. worse mistake ever! i wish i had half of those back. live and learn i guess.
wes.

 

[Broncster]

LAST EDITED ON Apr-01-09 AT 09:00PM (MST)[p]I stack and hang 'em in the garage, and have a nice table centerpiece in our kitchen of our better Deer sheds. I agree with the others that I will and have never sold sheds to anyone. They can find/buy someone else's.

 

[BoneJunkie]

I wont sell now but I admit years ago when I was young and still in school I sold most all of my finds just to pay my payments. I regret it to this day. All I have is a few pictures of some of those bones and the memories.

 

[Basin_Bucks]

I Have Never Sold As Well... I Have HAd To Let A Few Loose To The Inlaws That Choose to Spruce Up there Places With Them Put They Are Never Far Away In That Case... I Also Pile Them Up.. Trying (Hoping) To reach The Ceiling Someday....

 

[mulebuck]

LAST EDITED ON Apr-01-09 AT 11:24PM (MST)[p]Ah yes, a question often asked. He who dies with the most sheds wins... right?
I have one shed buck mount. Many are piled in the manroom or muleden. Some are in the garage and most in the backyard.

I've never sold a shed either. They're kinda sentimental I guess.
Like 'hunting oregon' said, anything big goes in the house whether it's a brownie or a whitey. The wife always says there are too many but I think we all know the response to that.

What amazes me is how well our brains work. Out of hundreds of sheds, I can recall when and where I picked 90% of them.
It is crazy how excited we get just from an old bone laying out in the hills.

 

[cmiddleton]

well I've done all of the above, stroked, sold, built lamps, candle holders and sent some off and had custom coyote calls made out of them.
if i had never sold any antlers i would have over 1200 chalk white ones over 500 hard white and 400 brown. i do not have room for that many antlers.
i have never sold a elk antler

 

[Saskman]

Anything that is big gets kept and saved in the basement. I will keep singles off mule deer if they are over 80" and some sets that are a little smaller. Whitetails are kept if over 70" or sets that are a little smaller. Small and medium sheds are sold and lately I have been using the ones that will work to make predator calls.

 

[Basin_Bucks]

NICE PICS.... NOW THTAS USAGE!!!!!

 

[Longun]

All I see in this pile is $$$$..and the wife does too..
We'd rather have a new rifle, binos, saddle,horse hay ect. ect.

 

[cmiddleton]

NICE CALL!!!!!!!!
i have three of tony teebes ordered they should be here about tuesday.

 

[BoneJunkie]

Saskman dang nice pile of muley bone. Looks like some hogs in there. Thats a strokers pile right there.

 

[nonet]

I save some especially the bigger ones but a few go to a juniors only javelina hunt I volunteer at every year here in Az. On sat. night we give away all kinds of stuff from cabelas, sportsmans w.h., and private parties. Its kinda cool to see a young hunter get a good shed in their hands and that fire lights up in their eyes! It makes walking all those miles to find them all the more rewarding!

 

[fatrooster]

I've never had a bunch of them before so Im not sure what I'm gonna do with my pile thats adding up. I've got 69 so far this year and hope to get 80 or more. This year I have a shed dog that I trained myself and I'm having a ball hiking and watching her work to find bone. fatrooster.

 

[idahoan]

So fatrooster, I was looking at buying that dog training shed hunting video, but you said that it was kind of vauge. Is it worth my money?

 

[Dawgs]

I have given about 50 of my nice antlers away to our Elks students of the month. I stain them and then have students dremel the names onto them. Yeah, they do have to be a decent enough size to have enough space for the carving to happen. This keeps me busy finding enough of the mid-size antlers, so I don't start giving bigger ones.

 

[dman95]

shed dog

what kind of dog do u have

 

[Gator]

RE: shed dog

Small forky or spike I make them into letter openers and give them away, they are great for that stuff, You just grind them down to a nice flat sharp tip for opening letters the rest of the horn is your handle.


"I have found if you go the extra mile it's Never crowded".

 

[losthuntr]

Here is what my dad did with mine