(already posted on a similar thread):
I didn't even hunt sheds in the past, but while hiking, or hunting and I came upon a big enough shed, I would carry it home. A couple of yrs. back, one of my sons gave me his old video camera; I started taking video of wild horses, deer, antelope, elk, coyotes and ATL sheds. One day, I encountered a set of large elk sheds that told a tale... a big ol' bull had jumped a fence, and the impact of hitting the ground had jarred both antlers off! I was stoked with this cool find, and now I'm hooked on hunting. I even put together video tapes of my finds, mixed in with my deer and elk videos mostly, with anything else unusual I encounter( one video sequence I took, two A-10 Thunderbolts were circling a field, checking out a group of deer with two nice bucks; I thought that was unusual!)Twice, I have come upon an elk carcass and collected elk ivories; once I found a circa 1875 whiskey bottle, twice found 1950's 7UP bottles, a silver spoon stamped 1870, a rusty old sheep or cow bell,a 1926 NV license plate, a $80 buck knife recently lost, a .50 cal. military shell casing, a few arrowheads and pottery shards- these have all been my most unusual finds, but make the hiking all that more worthwhile, especially when out in seemingly middle of nowhere! Even some unusual animals encountered when not expecting them: a wild horse wearing a worn-out halter, a rattlesnake with no rattle on his tail, an emu(?), a mallard duck resting under a sagebrush way out in pinon-juniper woodland, a sheep that was left behind and survived the winter and predators, a mixed group of seven deer and three elk running together- those are the most memorable. Just like hunting...it's always an adventure!
