Do these Count???

Cookie2 · Oct 4, 2007

I took a walk to see what kind of carnage we had just created in the local prairie dog town and looked down and said "lookie here! I found an antelope shed. I wonder where the other one is" and it was about six feet away.

everbrownshed · Oct 4, 2007

Hell yes those count. They're harder to find than deer or elk sheds. Cool finds.

AndymanSavage · Oct 4, 2007

They count, just treat them before they stink up your house.

Andy

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Cookie2 · Oct 5, 2007

I've heard they will dry up and go away. How does one "treat" them?

ForkWest · Oct 5, 2007

You get a little hungry on the trip back to town, nawing of the tips like a fine piece of teryaki jerky?

berto · Oct 5, 2007

LAST EDITED ON Oct-05-07 AT 12:16PM (MST)[p]i boiled an antelope skull last season. Once i removed the horns I literally filled them up with powdered borax...about once a week for the next month or so I would pour out the borax and then put it back in. after that month or so they no longer smelled like rotting flesh.

Cookie2 · Oct 5, 2007

Thanks, I'm not sure they stink... too scared to sniff and see. The wife says they better not or they go outside! I guess baking soda would work too?

Longun · Oct 6, 2007

I took a couple to the antler auction one year just to see if I could sell them and they went like hotcakes. A lot of people don't even realize they shed every year. Its funny to watch them shed--they act like they got fleas on their head and start shaking like a bastard and pretty quick the horns fly off!! Most of the time when we find them they don't stink anymore since they shed fairly early in the fall.

wyohikeit · Oct 7, 2007

Speed goat sheds are rare, Unless you live in Wyoming where there are more goats than people!!!
I agree longun they do sell like hotcakes! Its cool to make buttons from slices of horn too they polish up like glass.
I have a pen made of antelope horn too

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

Cookie2 · Oct 8, 2007

I'd like to see that pen, it sounds like it would look cool!

fullcurl74 · Oct 8, 2007

Can you elaborate more on the polished horn buttons? I've never heard of that, but sounds great. My dog brought me a sheath this spring.

wyohikeit · Oct 8, 2007

Here is a picture of the antelope horn pen and a drawing I did this weekend

The horn is so thin in this pen it is almost transparent and not black like I thought it would be

The buttons I don't have any pics of now but they are easy to make just saw the horn in 1/4 to 1/8" thick slices then sand them smooth. The light shines through the thinner pieces. Drill several small holes near center and you will have a button

Time in the hills is always worth more than money