fatrooster
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My first day out of the year to shed hunt and Daisy, my shed dog, found 4 and I found zero antlers. Our last two trips in 2009 Daisy beat me and now she beats me on our first trip of the year. We went on a 3 hour hike and during our first 2 hours we didn't find anything but leg bones, spinal columns and rib cages.
I don't discourage Daisy from bringing me skeletal bones because sometimes antlers can be few and far between.
Early into our trip Daisy got so engrossed in looking for bone that she ran right into a barbed wire fence and got a facial scratch. But it didn't seem to slow her down.
Then she found a porcipine and lucky for me she didn't attack it.
I wanted to put some space between me and the porcipine and then sit down and glass a canyon when I spotted a herd of about 20 deer with 4 of them sporting 2 antlers and 2 of them carrying one antler. While I was glassing the deer Daisy went back to pay the porcipine a visit. When I noticed that she was not by my side she was already coming back to me with a limp. We were very lucky because she only had one lone quill in the bottom of her foot pad. I pulled it out and off we went in the oppisite direction of the deer herd. The last time I looked at the deer some of them were watching me and some of them were grazing. We came to a fence that kinda led back into the direction of the truck and we began following it. The wind was blowing right to left and all at once Daisy lifted her head into the wind and scrambled under the fence and went about 20 yards into the wind. I thought to myself, "Great another leg from a dead deer," but I was surprised to find her picking up an antler and running back towards me with it. I got a picture of her scrambling back under the fence with it in her mouth. Our, or I guess I should say, HER first antler of the year.
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Here is another picture of Daisy with the same antler.
[IMG]http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad21/fatrooster/2-20-10Daisybringingmeaspine008.jpg
It was an old 2-point. We continued down the fence line and she ended up finding a one-year old 2-point, a brown spike and another old 2-point. The snow started coming down hard and when we got to the truck Archerybug and TwistedAntler had the Bar-B-Q going for a preplanned lunch meeting. They had found several antlers also. Horndog showed up with several antlers too as well as some other friends. Most everybody had found somewhere between 2 to 5 antlers most of them being old but a few brownies. Elk burgers and chorizo's and then it was off to Jiggs for a beer. fatrooster.
I don't discourage Daisy from bringing me skeletal bones because sometimes antlers can be few and far between.
Early into our trip Daisy got so engrossed in looking for bone that she ran right into a barbed wire fence and got a facial scratch. But it didn't seem to slow her down.
Then she found a porcipine and lucky for me she didn't attack it.
I wanted to put some space between me and the porcipine and then sit down and glass a canyon when I spotted a herd of about 20 deer with 4 of them sporting 2 antlers and 2 of them carrying one antler. While I was glassing the deer Daisy went back to pay the porcipine a visit. When I noticed that she was not by my side she was already coming back to me with a limp. We were very lucky because she only had one lone quill in the bottom of her foot pad. I pulled it out and off we went in the oppisite direction of the deer herd. The last time I looked at the deer some of them were watching me and some of them were grazing. We came to a fence that kinda led back into the direction of the truck and we began following it. The wind was blowing right to left and all at once Daisy lifted her head into the wind and scrambled under the fence and went about 20 yards into the wind. I thought to myself, "Great another leg from a dead deer," but I was surprised to find her picking up an antler and running back towards me with it. I got a picture of her scrambling back under the fence with it in her mouth. Our, or I guess I should say, HER first antler of the year.
http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad21/fatrooster/2-20-10Daisybringingmeaspine007.jpg[/IMG
Here is another picture of Daisy with the same antler.
[IMG]http://i918.photobucket.com/albums/ad21/fatrooster/2-20-10Daisybringingmeaspine008.jpg
It was an old 2-point. We continued down the fence line and she ended up finding a one-year old 2-point, a brown spike and another old 2-point. The snow started coming down hard and when we got to the truck Archerybug and TwistedAntler had the Bar-B-Q going for a preplanned lunch meeting. They had found several antlers also. Horndog showed up with several antlers too as well as some other friends. Most everybody had found somewhere between 2 to 5 antlers most of them being old but a few brownies. Elk burgers and chorizo's and then it was off to Jiggs for a beer. fatrooster.
