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Took off with Dustin the Antlerhead last weekend. Still a little early for browns but that was to be expected. Dustin found all the major cool stuff this trip, but I wasn't disappointed in what I managed to find. Here is a pair of old coues antlers. Dustin found 1 side and I found the other side about 1/2 mile away on the same hillside( whats the chances of that?). Both had similar conformation and almost identical buttons. Old brown hog with one of his finds. Very nice 6 point shed. Old but good coues shed from this trip. 10 minutes before dark and a nice find for Dustin. Both of us had walked right by this head for a couple years. This head would probably be in the 320 class I would guess. This ended up being our finds for the weekend. We found our share of mule deer sheds, a couple coues sheds, and few keeper elk sheds. Dustins' haul. End of trail and a bit on the tired side.

Wow that is an amazing set of sheds! Looks like the white antler was laying there for more than 3 years before you found it? I actually found the pair to last years shed only about 40 yards from where the other one was. It was laying right in plain sight which was the interesting part. I gave it good effort last year to find the pair but maybe I looked to hard or was blind that day. Or maybe a critter drug it down a hill for all I know?.

you know when i find big sets it makes me mad as hel so i can see why he would look mad ... Ok guys i'll try to pose up a big old cheesy grin next time. I don't think the sheds were from the same buck just because they were about 3 miles apart. Never know for sure I guess.

http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/uploads/monthly_03_2011/post-3284-0-43900900-1299987088_thumb.jpg Found the brown last year and the pair to it last week. Had smallish 3rds but still a dandy pair none the less.

The coues sheds were all 1 to 2 years old. Most of the coues bucks I see in that area are still packing racks through April.

Took off this last weekend for awhile to hit up some old places. Didn't put allot of time into looking but I did find 8 keepers. This is a shed that is a pair to a large brown I found last year. Not a fresh brown antler but a welcome sight none the less. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/uploads/monthly_03_2011/post-3284-0-24832100-1299548729_thumb.jpg Here are a couple coues sheds I found. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/uploads/monthly_03_2011/post-3284-0-79796600-1299548798_thumb.jpg This is a very nice symmetrical pair. Seen quite a few bulls still packing racks but at least two antlers wont be walking away from me when I see them. http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/uploads/monthly_03_2011/post-3284-0-12611800-1299548878_thumb.jpg

Here are some pictures from my last couple of antler hunts. I found this shed when I was on a coues hunt with some friends. We split up for awhile which gave me some time to dink around and shed hunt for a little while. Any time you can find a 7x its always a good bonus. In persuit of a much larger buck we seen(115+), this buck was passed up. After coming back on the trip with nothing, he didn't seem like he would have been so bad. Especially since they had the chance to shoot him at only 20 yards or less. Thats the nature of the game though. This was my coues find of the trip even if it was only from a buck in the 70's or so. Well being antlerhead and I are both horse owners, we actually decided to put one of them to use. We hit the brush for a couple days on a mid. Nov antler hunt. We still hit the brush on foot but the over all journey was much easier. This was Dustins' pride and joy of the trip. This was an older head but in perfect condition scoring prob. around 90 or so. This was a very nice brown he found. If he ever decides he dont like it any more, I'll find a good home for it. This was my find of the trip. Terrible picture but huge antler. This is actually an antler I have been looking to find for over a year. I found the pair to it last year but it took me about 4 trips to find the matching side. It was only 1/8 of a mile or less away but in the jungle that I was looking in that was quite the challenge. I posted a picture of the matching side on August 10 2009 about 10 pages ago on this forum. On this trip Dustin had all the deer finds including: 1 mule deer head, 1 coues deer head, and 3 coues sheds. We both found our fair share of elk ants. including browns , year olds , 1 year old pair and some nice sized whites. Taking a break on the trail. Made for an easy pack out. This is the pair that took me a year to find. These antlers are at least 5 years old but could be restored to like new quite easily. The mass on both the 4ths and main beam are incredible. Not a record set but I still like them.

Looks like the same kind of camera that most bigfoot pictures are taken with. Those sheds are of legendary porportions! I wouldn't mind finding a pair half that size. Congrats. to Waylon on his find.

amazing.... very, very nice.

Took off this last weekend on a solo trip to have some fun away from the daily grind. Got alot of rain where I went but sometimes putting up with the rain is easier than the hot sun. I found 10 keeper antlers and left 3. 5 were elk and 5 were deer. The 5 deer antlers were all mule deer horns. Once again I got skunked out on coues horns but I am glad for what I did find. I know this was good coues country but i didn't look around the right bush i guess. 10 minutes from camp and first find of the day. Thats hard to beat. Do you want to find a bunch of antlers??.... Just leave your pack about 40 minutes away from where you are searching. Its a universal law I do believe. I did find a couple of good sized bear heads. Both were prob. about 8 years old and very busted up. Got 3 teeth out of the deal which were about as neat as anything. Old or not I still like em. They would look real nice in a belt buckle or display board. Here was a lucky find. It was only about 60 feet off from a main hiking trail. I would pick on hikers for not paying attention, but I too walked right by it on the way in. Several miles and several hours ahead in the rain down the old trail.

This one has been there awhile as well.

Very impressive! All Utah finds?

Nice job! Looks like alot of work.

You should have him drive around in the woods just for fun. It would turn some heads. Bet you would see some brake lights in your mirrors.

Very nice! Good luck on your elk hunt this year.