Originally Posted by
Phil from Maine
Although I am not sure what exactly chewed it, I was guessing coyotes did the chewing. I have found a couple like that here. One was frozen in the ground with the end chewed completely in half.. At my first look I thought perhaps an automobile had broken it but it was to far away from a main road.. Here is one that I had found that was chewed on by something.. I am still thinking yotes however, and squirrels chewed the points..
I looked at mine again and can see exactly what this guy from a moose shed site posted on my thread. I can see the teeth marks perfectly along the outter edge opposite of the peeled off back side. Here's what he posted.
That's definately a moose chew. It's very common here in Nova Scotia. Matter of fact somewhere around 50% of our mature moose have broken front teeth from this behavior. If you look closer at your shed you will probably see the flat edge of the bottom front teeth of the moose along the edge of the break. Bears and coyotes have sharp pointed teeth and it's pretty easy to tell when they chewed a moose shed.