Some 2011 Shed Success

northface

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I have been a long time fan of this site and forum. This is my first time posting some pictures in this particular forum. I was finally able to get some great ATL's and kept myself disciplined this year to always carry my camera.

This first set was found while I was moving down a fairly thick PJ/Mahogany mix, south face when I hit a heavily used elk trail. As soon as I looked to my left I saw this guy stuck in the ground, right in the middle of the trail.
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He's little and broke on every tine but cool find
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These next couple were found in late March. I was driving up a canyon and saw what I think every shed hunter loves to see, Bucks and Bulls with fuzzy knobs on their head. They were about 600 yards up the canyon, I let them feed into the trees and starting picking the hill apart. I ending up finding both sets, one was a 5x5 that had 58" and 59" beams and the other was a solid 340 six. A bonus was finding one of the six point's sides from the year before, it was laying 40 yards from this years set! It makes you think that if a Bull finds a good hole somewhere and isn't tampered with, he may drop year in and year out in that same location. Anyway, here's some pics - one of the five point, six point and the six point's last year's shed.
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Hey! Thanks for posting! I love to see ATL & terrain pics posted up. Even old "whiteys" or "greys" or broken off points have a story behind how they got there. My last hike, all I found was the top 1/3 of a 6-pt. bull where he'd broken his rack in a fight with a tree!
 
That's some beautiful country that you found those nice looking sheds in.
Thanks for sharing.

Eldorado
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-02-11 AT 00:23AM (MST)[p]Way cool ATL pics! Love the elk shed stuck in the ground looks pretty deep in the ground too. It reminds me one time one of my dads friend found a rag horn elk shed stuck in the ground about 8 in with part of the skull on the base of the horn. That bull wanted that horn off so bad that he broke a part of his skull off and it was a shed because it was around shed season and brown with lots of blood on the shed base with part of the skull. Wish I had pics to post.
 
Thanks guys for the welcome. I appreciate the follow up stories as well. I've never ran across a shed story that isn't worth sharing.
 

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