Too Many Un-Shed Heads

This was the only brown shed we found for this trip down south. After all of our hiking, Ethen and I found this one from the road. We found a couple white ones, but most of the deer hadn't shed yet.

Good Day for Shed Season Scouting

Dane and Chesley found their first sheds of the season while scouting out a new area for this year. Ches looks pretty happy to be there.

Here is their haul safe at home.

From the 4-Wheeler

Rebekah and I went out for a 4-wheeler drive on the back side of the mountain by our house. We weren't really even looking for sheds. We went up a little trail and on our way back down she said, "Dad, I found one, for real!" It was right off the little trail laying tines up. She is pretty excited about the fact that she found one. She was more excited that she found one and I didn't...punk!

Erik's Muzzleloader Monster Muley (Ok enough of the rhyming titles!)

Erik got his second deer in two years and the biggest one in the family and the biggest one for the year. He shot it with a borrowed muzzleloader in Carbon County... It was 22" wide and 19" tall. Congratulations Erik! All of his pictures are taken with a phone camera, so they are a little fuzzy. Maybe I should stop carrying a camera so I could have better luck with deer and sheds.

Bryon's Big Bad Butt-shot Buck

I wasn't sure I wanted to shoot it...as Janet says be careful when playing with a loaded bow...It was the larger of the two spikes!

Scott's Big Bad Bookcliffs Buck

Scott's biggest deer with a bow came from the Bookcliffs this year.

Not Completely Skunked...Right?

I went out for a few hours this morning and all I saw was this little 3x4, which had been dead for a few years, some turkeys and my first snake of the year. I left the skull there and didn't find any other antlers, so I guess technically I was skunked! However, it was still a good little hike.

Under Cover Antler

I decided to put this one in as a big picture because it is only a small, old, white 3-point...have to do something to make it seem bigger. I have been looking for elk antlers in an area that seems perfect for deer, but this is the first one I have found in this area. I was out for about 1 1/2 hours and only found this, but at least I wasn't skunked...that's twice in a row now...hopefully things are getting back on track.

Family Elk Spotting

We went out for a drive, as a family, when Sam started saying we needed to go look for elk. I was pretty sure we wouldn't see anything, but we were pleasantly surprised. We saw 6 bulls that were all re-growing their antlers. Two were quite a bit bigger than the others. I am pretty sure that the one on the far right of the first picture is the bull that dropped the biggest one I found. The camera battery died, so I put my phone up to the binoculars for the best we could get...taken from the Jeep at about 50-60 yards.

Broken Horn Hunt

The first picture is my first "can you see it?" - not too hard to find. I went out for the day and only ended up finding these two broken sheds...but they were both fresh and I finally broke my skunk streak. While I was out I did a ton of hiking and ended up finding a herd of about 40 elk. There were 5 bulls that I could see. Four of the bulls were spikes that hadn't dropped yet and the other had dropped and was growing his new set. After the herd realized I was there, at about 150 yards, they trotted away. I started to scan the hillside for horns and ended up finding the deer shed laying right where they had been eating. The weird thing about that one is I was at an elevation of about 7600 feet. It was the highest deer shed I have found and the only one I have ever found in that area.

Horn King Update?

So Scott has been the Horn King in years past. However, last year Erik took the crown. This year I had a very short week or two as king, then Erik took it back. This last week has been busy for Erik, but Scott has apparently been putting up a good fight...with 19 sheds in the last 2 weekends. These ones were found by one of Scotts co-workders. Erik says that he is still leading by 1-2 sheds, but Scott has really closed the gap.

Erik Is Finding Too Many Sheds

Kind of old, nothing great, but even these will keep you going. Erik is trying to make up for the ones that Dane and I aren't finding.