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Maryland’s Shed Antler Hunt Heats Up in Spring
As spring unfolds across Maryland, outdoor enthusiasts are hitting the trails to hunt for shed antlers, the off-white tines ...
A 20-acre (or so) food plot on the hunting property can attract more than 100 deer at times, Ben says, which got him and his brother thinking. An antler shed pokes up out of the shelterbelt floor ...
The Irish elk, or Megaloceros giganteus, ranged across northern Eurasia from Siberia to Ireland and shed its giant ... a painting of a deer with fantastically elongated antlers.
This impressive set weighed in at a whopping 26 pounds (each antler weighed 13 pounds), the post said. Like other members of the Cervidae (deer) family, male elk shed their antlers each spring.
At the behest of state lawmakers, Wyoming in 2024 took unprecedented steps to regulate shed antler hunting — actions that ...
The last one was held in 2022. Read Next: Shed Hunter Finds $10,000 Mule Deer Antler, One of Five Hidden Across the West “These auctions give people the opportunity to obtain a public resource that ...
With warmer temperatures and snow quickly disappearing, shed-antler hunters are anxious to get into the field. Buck deer and bull elk and moose grow antlers each year, some to magnificent ...
Another key is focusing on wintering areas, places where the deer spend a majority of their time and are most likely to drop their antlers. “Our first year shed hunting, we went to every corner ...