Sold the most

[Ungulate]

Who here has sold the for most?

I have sold only once and regret it. I seperated the antlers that I could live without and the ones that needed to stay. I got somewhere around $500.00 for the ones that I really didnt care for.

I ended up buying a .204 with the money but there are sometimes when I miss the sheds that I found. If you take a lot of "as they lays" then it makes it all the more painful.

Lets hear how much some of you have sold for and how much bone you had to turn over. For me it is just too painful to see 2 years of shed hunting dissapear.

 

[fatrooster]

I've never sold any but sometimes I will give a few away. fatrooster.

 

[ColoradoOak]

A couple of buddies and I sold these a few years ago. Only made about $2k, I think.

 

[hornhunter247]

i sell anywhere from 500-1000 pounds a year. I only keep the really big ones these days. I just figure all those antlers would've just been stuck in a big pile, and now some of them are probably being enjoyed in someone's house by now!

 

[hornkiller]

i sold my little stuff from this sring made around 900 still kickin my self but getting used to just keeping the big ones.

 

[Ungulate]

Little ones? Those are the ones that I keep... I only have one set that goes about 320.

 

[wyohikeit]

I have been picking up sheds for thirty years -- longer than most of you have been walking upright. We have always sold the majority of what we find $1,500 - $2,000 each year. One year we sold $3,200 Why not sell them, where would I put a pile of bone like that! Selling them just covers the expence of going to the hills to get them anyway. At least it's a hobby that pays for its self. I walk over 300 miles a year to pick up that many bones.

A sale load from several years ago

2003 sale load

Three of these sets are " Keepers " that will not be sold the other three sets are gone to market

this springs sale load

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

 

[ARCHERYBUG]

I have never sold any !!!!!

 

[Pooner]

Wyohikeit, you are the man, I always enjoy your pictures they always make me jealous. And i am even more jealous of the fact you go to shed hunt before it was popular.

 

[ElkSniper]

Ya, I agree. Its like I am attached to them or something. It hurts but its for the better you dont want your pile to be too big.

We have about 20 sheds from this spring turkey hunt.

 

[losthuntr]

my dad sold once when I was young it took 2 days for the buyer to weigh out the horns and the cash was gone in a flash. The pile of bone took years to rebuild, i'll never sell, there's a lot of memories tied to that stack of bone.

 

[HKShooter]

I've seen huge collections of these that guys won't ever sell. I mean 36' x 48' barns that you can hardly walk around all the stacks. Personally I don't get saving all that bone. I would keep the special ones that I will always remember, but after 1,000's of them they begin to blurr and they become more of a "in my way item" than great memories.

HK

 

[need2hunt]

Wyohikeit, I am curious as to how much a pound are you getting for your antlers? Either I'm getting ripped off, or your antlers weigh a heck of a lot more than mine???

 

[wyohikeit]

$7 per pound for the craft grade stuff $5.50 for the white on one side. These pics are of the prime time sale loads, not of all we sold that year. We pick up sheds all year long. There are plenty of buyers that will rob you if they get a chance though. I will only sell to those I trust plus I know how much I take to market before I go.

Time in the hills is always worth more than money

 

[HiMtnHntr]

I've sold a bunch, but my wife won't let me sell any more currently. Bet you guys would like a woman that thinks like that . . . Sooner or later there will be another sale though, unless I get a bigger house.

 

[need2hunt]

Wyohikeit, thanks for the info. I too find sheds nearly all year long (mostly elk) but maybe not near as much as you do...Ok Ok Ok....maybe a lot less...although several years ago we did fill up the bed of our 3/4 ton Dodge. But I do hear you about the antler buyers. I just thought that maybe you had a buyer that was still giving you some crazy high prices still and I was going to ask you for his phone number.

 

[parnellie]

i sold for the first time last spring to help pay some medical bills for my wife at the time. i sold mainly small, white, and chewed up sheds (that i dont miss because i forgot where i found them)200lbs for $610. i always swore id never sell but when you get a pile of 1,300 sheds what do you do with all those.i plan on making more crafty things some time and increasing profit but im to busy hunting or hiking to take the time to sit down and do it. so it will have to wait until i get older.