Sheds
06-07-2008 | 03:21 PM
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Fork Horn
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From: Iowa
RE: Sheds
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
We found the one that we had scored in November. It was kind of buried in an old creek bed. My brother in law stumbled across it while he was bowhunting. So we figured it was from the spring of 2007. Then the next one we found this April. It also was buried and pretty discolored, so either it is also been there since last year or it is another buck's shed from this year or it is the same buck's shed from a year later. Who knows?
Dan
Im guessing the same buck to. The color is the same, twisted brows, kickers....yep im betting the same
06-07-2008 | 03:44 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: Mont County, Pa
RE: Sheds
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
06-07-2008 | 03:49 PM
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Giant Nontypical
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From: Central Minnesota
RE: Sheds
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
They look like the same buck to me also, too many similarities on them.
06-07-2008 | 03:53 PM
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From: Wisconsin and Canada
RE: Sheds
ORIGINAL: early in
Very interesting Dan! I think they are from the same buck also. Likesomeone already mentioned, the brow tines look a lot alike.
ORIGINAL: _Dan
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
Nice sheds....same buck. The best way to tell is to turn them over and look at the pedicles, they will look very similar.
They're almost like fingerprints.
06-07-2008 | 04:01 PM
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Typical Buck
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From: Streamwood,Illinois
RE: Sheds
Like the guys said above check the pedicles.But the one shed looks really chewed on and the other minimal.Either the rodents are real bad where the first one dropped or the other one was dropped alot later.I would think with headgear that size he would want that antler off as fast as possible to get his head balanced again so it could be two.But they do look like pretty much like a perfect set.Either way there is a monster lurking in your woods.
06-07-2008 | 06:45 PM
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From: Wisconsin and Canada
RE: Sheds
Yep...Notice how the burrs all around both peticles are about the same size, configuration and distance from the base of the pedicle. Not to mention, they both have kind of a heart shape to them.
Especially after seeing the pedicles, I would say they are definately from the same year....he grew them during 2006 and they were laying out there a year before you found them.
Congrats again on a great find!
Especially after seeing the pedicles, I would say they are definately from the same year....he grew them during 2006 and they were laying out there a year before you found them.
Congrats again on a great find!
