Author Topic: A matched set?? (Read 2931 times)

woodsteach · « **on:** January 27, 2010, 09:12:37 PM »

I found these 2 antlers 2 days apart and about 150 yards apart. The second was in my folks front yard about 25 feet from the house.

They sure look close to a matched set to me

woodsteach

Burlkraft · « **Reply #1 on:** January 27, 2010, 10:55:19 PM »

Good find

beenthere · « **Reply #2 on:** January 27, 2010, 11:30:03 PM »

I don't know, better get a DNA test to see.....

Chuck White · « **Reply #3 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:37:53 AM »

Yup! I'd say they are a match!

We don't seem to find many sheds around here!
Too many critters carry them off!

Magicman · « **Reply #4 on:** January 28, 2010, 01:06:45 PM »

Congratulations on a trophy find.....

ely · « **Reply #5 on:** January 28, 2010, 02:03:13 PM »

what kind of dog does your folks have.?

Burlkraft · « **Reply #6 on:** January 28, 2010, 05:29:10 PM »

Quote from: ely on January 28, 2010, 02:03:13 PM

what kind of dog does your folks have.?

Jeff · « **Reply #7 on:** January 28, 2010, 07:14:56 PM »

I think they are related but not a match.

woodsteach · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2010, 12:49:58 PM »

As far as the dog she is a german wired hair pointer, but we found the antler in the yard b/f she was let out for the morning.

yeh, Jeff they are close but hard to tell...I need to post some pix of the back side of the antlers ...later

woods

Magicman · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2010, 01:56:24 PM »

It could go either way. I've seen/killed many deer that didn't have "matched" sets.....

Including this one. He was 5 points and heavier on the right side. It's probably genetics, but most all of our deer are "right side" heavy. BTW, this one is 21 3/4" inside.

If you had found his sheds, you would have said that they came from two different deer. Yup, that's him there on the left.

woodsteach · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2010, 03:43:26 PM »

Nice buck Magic

woods

Magicman · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2010, 04:58:03 PM »

I got this 10 point buck in the exact same spot a year later. He's matched....

SwampDonkey · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2010, 06:28:24 PM »

Yes, those are a couple of nice mounts. I'm heading up tomorrow to the moose yards, I call them, and will probably find a shed if the snow is shallow. Found one the last time frozen in ice. Posted on the forum, musta been 2006 when we had no snow. I found 2 moose sheds this past summer, one my neighboring coworker found on his strip and placed it in the safety trail for me to find I guess. I don't collect them here, no use for'm.

Woodsteach do you collect antlers? Most here get eaten by hare, squirrel and porcupine real quick.

Ron Scott · « **Reply #13 on:** February 03, 2010, 08:14:00 PM »

Nice!!

woodsteach · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2010, 11:46:20 AM »

SD, Usually every year the girls and I go searching for sheds. Most are usually small 3 and 4 pointers.

We raise grassfed/finshed beef so have been improving our grasses with clovers and other legumes. So what is good for the beeves is good for the deer and antler growth is exploding!

The rodents hit the sheds quick here as well but just Tuesday the girls and I found a single small 5 pointer!

woods

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