The Annual Shed Thread

Whitetail Deer

Contributors to this thread:

Zbone 16-Dec-24

SD 16-Dec-24

SaddleReaper 16-Dec-24

Zbone 17-Dec-24

Zbone 19-Dec-24

Zbone 24-Dec-24

Bou'bound 25-Dec-24

Zbone 27-Dec-24

Zbone 01-Jan-25

Bou'bound 01-Jan-25

Zbone 03-Jan-25

Babysaph 05-Jan-25

Zbone 05-Jan-25

Zbone 23-Jan-25

ridgerunnerron 23-Jan-25

thetxman 23-Jan-25

Zbone 23-Jan-25

HUNT MAN 23-Jan-25

thetxman 23-Jan-25

t-roy 23-Jan-25

Zbone 28-Jan-25

SD 28-Jan-25

Zbone 29-Jan-25

BUCKeye 29-Jan-25

Old Reb 30-Jan-25

T-rex 30-Jan-25

Zbone 30-Jan-25

Zbone 02-Feb-25

olddogrib 02-Feb-25

Zbone 02-Feb-25

olddogrib 02-Feb-25

Zbone 04-Feb-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY 07-Feb-25

Zbone 11-Feb-25

t-roy 11-Feb-25

Bowfinatic 11-Feb-25

t-roy 11-Feb-25

VAMtns 12-Feb-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY 13-Feb-25

Zbone 13-Feb-25

Scrappy 13-Feb-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY 14-Feb-25

Zbone 15-Feb-25

SD 15-Feb-25

Zbone 20-Feb-25

PushCoArcher 20-Feb-25

Zbone 21-Feb-25

Zbone 24-Feb-25

bigswivle 24-Feb-25

Zbone 24-Feb-25

Zbone 25-Feb-25

t-roy 25-Feb-25

Zbone 25-Feb-25

Shug 25-Feb-25

PushCoArcher 25-Feb-25

SD 26-Feb-25

VAMtns 26-Feb-25

Will 26-Feb-25

t-roy 27-Feb-25

Zbone 27-Feb-25

PushCoArcher 27-Feb-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY 27-Feb-25

SD 27-Feb-25

Zbone 28-Feb-25

Zbone 01-Mar-25

Zbone 02-Mar-25

SD 03-Mar-25

Thornton 04-Mar-25

TonyBear 13-Mar-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY 13-Mar-25

PushCoArcher 13-Mar-25

Zbone 15-Mar-25

Scrappy 16-Mar-25

Zbone 16-Mar-25

Bwhnt 16-Mar-25

Zbone 17-Mar-25

SD 17-Mar-25

Zbone 18-Mar-25

SD 18-Mar-25

Zbone 18-Mar-25

SD 18-Mar-25

Zbone 18-Mar-25

From: Zbone

16-Dec-24

Zbone's Link

That time of year for the annual shed thread... I noticed at least 2 early shed bucks this morning over on the Brownville's Food Pantry For Deer in Maine, see thread:

https://forums.bowsite.com/tf/bgforums/thread.cfm?threadid=504547&messages=1&forum=4

They didn't turn on the cameras until this morning, but the buck's pedicles look recently shed...

From: SD

16-Dec-24

Saw a buck yesterday that had lost a side. Looked pretty close to make sure it wasn't broken off.

From: SaddleReaper

16-Dec-24

Have multiple bucks shedding in WNY. One fully, and 2 half racks

From: Zbone

17-Dec-24

If you watch any of that web-cam provided in Maine you'll see early shedders on December 16th and throughout the winter view antlered bucks shed all the way through until spring with the late shedders... That is a span of 3 - 4 months is not uncommon, it is the same here in my area...

From: Zbone

19-Dec-24

Buck shed left side within the past day...

From: Zbone

24-Dec-24

Wanted to add this photo from what somebody posted here on Bowsite a few years ago... Sorry don't remember what Bowsiter post it, only that it was from Southern Kansas on Dec 8, 2020, earliest I ever heard of an early shedding...

From: Zbone

24-Dec-24

Half rack a couple days ago on Dec 22...

Buck in the trough is what the Pantry folks are calling, "Vincent"...

From: Bou'bound

25-Dec-24

Best thread of the year. Thanks for starting it.

From: Zbone

27-Dec-24

Another one shed one side, there are 2 half racks in photo...

From: Zbone

01-Jan-25

This 4x buck shows half shed on 12/26 and still carrying 5 days later...

The 5x shed on 12/17 and is still carrying one side 2 weeks later and pedicle still looks bloody ... Interestingly, I watched him run off a small buck by head down pointing his one side, he knows he's not fully crowned...8^)

The last picture looks like this shed buck has a pretty good open wound... Broadhead maybe?

From: Zbone

01-Jan-25

Little forky now half shed...

The one they call Vincent is still fully crowned...

From: Bou'bound

01-Jan-25

This is excellent.

From: Zbone

03-Jan-25

The half shed little forky last night, still carrying one side 3 days later ...

From: Babysaph

05-Jan-25

I thought it wasn’t healthy for the deer to feed them.

From: Zbone

05-Jan-25

Another half shed, this one on January 3rd... Notice the pretty gray doe up front...

Babysaph - With the heavy snows, deer yard naturally in Maine so it wouldn't matter if the feed them or not, they are still going to be congregated in winter... From their site/channel:

"The Brownville Food Pantry For Deer feeds up to 800 pounds of native oats and at least a bushel of apples per day to help sustain the white-tailed deer population through rough winters here in Brownville, Maine. Feeding happens daily around 08:00(8AM) to 09:00(9 AM) Eastern Standard Time starting December 16 and continues to around the beginning of April. These are wild deer and this is not a deer farm. Some of the deer have been coming for more than 10 years. At times there are 200+ deer at the pantry. Wild turkeys also come and eat the native oats along side the deer. There is no Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD in wild deer in Maine. Please don't complain about it in chat. These deer are all very healthy and there has never been any type of disease spread among these deer. This "Yarding" of deer happens in Maine every winter, even if they were not being fed. You may see deer that are lame. Experts tell us that leaving them alone is the best thing we can do for them. Thank you for watching!"

From: Zbone

23-Jan-25

Happen to run across this cool photo...

From: ridgerunnerron

23-Jan-25

Great pic!!

From: thetxman

23-Jan-25

Doesn't get much fresher than this

From: Zbone

23-Jan-25

Dang thetxman, that is fresh... What day was that? Thanks....

From: HUNT MAN

23-Jan-25

Cool one from the job site.

From: thetxman

23-Jan-25

Zbone, that was Christmas Day. First Christmas present I’ve received from a whitetail deer

From: t-roy

23-Jan-25

Almost found this one the hard way.

From: Zbone

28-Jan-25

The ones they call Lefty and Vincent are still fully crowned... There are still quite a few of them with racks...

From: SD

28-Jan-25

Other than a couple early shed'rs we still have a ton of bucks holding both sides.

Zbone, keep posting the Pantry's deer. I like your posts keeping up with them.

From: Zbone

29-Jan-25

7x half shed on one of my properties this morning... At first I thought he was a 5x until I watched the video... He has a sticker coming off the main beam and a longer one coming off the burr or the skull plate, I can't tell which... Wish I'd seen what his other side looked like, had never seen him before... Would be cool to find his sheds...

Then the fully shed buck photo from 3 mornings ago...

From: BUCKeye

29-Jan-25

From: Old Reb

30-Jan-25

Me and the boys have been finding a few. Mostly sheds from dink bucks. Nothing of any size yet.

From: T-rex

30-Jan-25

Found a small one in my yard yesterday and a guy from work found a 1.5 year old set on the road at 4am this morning on his way in to work

From: Zbone

30-Jan-25

Nice, Old Reb...

From: Zbone

02-Feb-25

A little guy challenging the one they call Lefty, he actually kind of ran Lefty off...

From: olddogrib

02-Feb-25

I guess it takes all kinds, lol. I was watching a rerun of Yellowstone Wardens show that covered the annual elk antler hunt where they open some areas to the public after the elk season for a few days of antler hunting. Looked like the "Montana Mardi Gras". Folks lining the road shoulders for miles two days prior to opening. Drunk, stoned and Lord only knows what else. One officer knocks on a guy's pick-up camper door because he's sticking too far out in the road, posing a hindrance to emergency vehicle access. Officer smells weed pouring out but says in MT wardens can't make drug arrests! Let's him off with a warning but still let's him move his vehicle...go figure! When the gates open and "they drop the flag" you quickly understand the need for "emergency vehicle access". Even though they provide a "pace truck", things quickly devolve into chaos...riders falling off their horses, ATV's running into horses, horses kicking ATV's, pedestrians run over by everything. Better than Talladega and no worry about getting hit by chicken bones if you're in the front rows! I'll pass. Confess now, who makes this pilgrimage every year, lol?

From: Zbone

02-Feb-25

Zbone's Link

Sounds like a "wild" time olddogrib, let us know how it goes...8^)

Kinda reminds me of an annual event that started here in Ohio in the early 2000's called Deerrassic....8^) Buddy and I went to the very first one on the very first day and once there I started calling it "Whitetail Woodstock"...8^) It was nothing but a big party, concerts and all... It really didn't have much to do with whitetails, it was mostly about selling raffle tickets and partying... It was my first and last time there...

Hey, here is a short video clip of antler shedding on film: https://www.facebook.com/61566590999691/videos/450797684457695

From: olddogrib

02-Feb-25

Won't catch me there. Like Three Dog Night sang...."momma told me not to come"!

From: Zbone

04-Feb-25

Zbone's Link

January 31, 2025:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1598446624369935

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

07-Feb-25

20 yesterday in Kansas

From: Zbone

11-Feb-25

Zbone's Link

Didn't see a single antlered deer in this video clip, gotta be a couple hundred deer:

https://fb.watch/xH9zaUcU7H/

From: t-roy

11-Feb-25

Very nice, Mike!

From: Bowfinatic

11-Feb-25

From: Bowfinatic

11-Feb-25

From: Bowfinatic

11-Feb-25

Couple nice ones and a good deadhead

From: Bowfinatic

11-Feb-25

From: t-roy

11-Feb-25

Found a few last Saturday while doing a little food plot prep work.

From: VAMtns

12-Feb-25

Found two so far , one nice one with 4 points , heavy mass and bladed and a small 4 point.

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

13-Feb-25

Matched up a nice buck!

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

13-Feb-25

Gnarly Mass

From: Zbone

13-Feb-25

Dang ROUGHCOUNTRY, is that massive one this year's fresh shed?

From: Scrappy

13-Feb-25

Work shed, I'm the self appointed shed remover from the ag fields. Don't want to be ruining any tractor tires.????

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

14-Feb-25

Massive one was a year old and dig it out of the mud at a creek crossing, so I cleaned, whitened and re-colored it

From: Zbone

15-Feb-25

Cool... Wonder if he's still alive?

From: SD

15-Feb-25

ROUGHCOUNTRY, I'd like to see a full pic of it recolored... and a detail on how tou do the whitening and recolor. From what little I can see from your last pic it looks like you did a great job!

From: Zbone

20-Feb-25

Thought this as funny...8^)

Caption read:

"Patiently waiting for our bucks to start dropping"

From: PushCoArcher

20-Feb-25

Been keeping a eye on the bucks here in Oklahoma and Texas. Watched this group Friday only a couple were missing one side. Nice 130-140 8 point in the group I'm hoping to pick his sheds up.

From: Zbone

21-Feb-25

Check these recent sheds out...

Caption:

"Here’s the official scoresheet of the set i found two weeks ago and they are going into the buck masters book at 174 5/8 of bone. This deer would be a 192 5/8 with an 18 spread credit. World class beams at 29 in length"

From: Zbone

24-Feb-25

Doe buck-flips a shed buck...8^)

From: bigswivle

24-Feb-25

Found the deer my daughter hit back in November. Bittersweet for sure.

From: Zbone

24-Feb-25

Dang bigswivle, nice buck, and great buck if Florida... Glad to hear you was able to retrieve it's deadhead...

From: Zbone

25-Feb-25

Check out these sheds, Missouri buck sheds stowed away for 30+ years :

https://www.northamericanwhitetail.com/editorial/old-hartford-sheds-shop-ceiling/516542?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=paideditorial&fbclid=IwY2xjawIqiHpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHZai8xNRBq_mqUakONLuy8eLwHyxpMQS9QeiZ3O2ImUu9FdOwOnRAvu_qw_aem_FuLU4Lf9KujBCO82ajjemw#replay

From: t-roy

25-Feb-25

Nice that you found it, bigswivle.

From: Zbone

25-Feb-25

Zbone's Link

Just released:

"10 of the Biggest Whitetail Shed Antlers Ever Found, Including Three World Record-Size Deer"

https://www.fieldandstream.com/hunting/biggest-whitetail-shed-antlers-ever-found?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=ntdLK_vWMYvnvufd_tB9c7AvJpDWW0SN1Dx7pwqkFJs.Y7Ln5L

From: Shug

25-Feb-25

Knocked it out of the park today!!

From: PushCoArcher

25-Feb-25

Found this little one today and this poor bugger.

From: SD

26-Feb-25

Got to be a stud shed hunter to find those little ones (anyone can see 80 inches of antler sitting there, but a spike... that takes talent)!

From: VAMtns

26-Feb-25

Found a matched pair 10 ft apart over the weekend , typical 10 pt probably 3 . 5 yr old

From: Will

26-Feb-25

The buck that tripped backwards over the feed trough looked so dejected when it got up. "Did anyone see that? Yep, they all saw it..."

Hilarious!

Some amazing sheds!

From: t-roy

27-Feb-25

Found this matched set laying side by side.

From: t-roy

27-Feb-25

Found these on a big bedding flat up above the house.

From: t-roy

27-Feb-25

Thought this was kind of a neat pic

From: Zbone

27-Feb-25

Nice t-roy...

From: PushCoArcher

27-Feb-25

Today went better.

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

27-Feb-25

Big sets aplenty

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

27-Feb-25

Had to go back twice to match this guy up

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

27-Feb-25

G2 = 13 3/8

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

27-Feb-25

Better view of the left side of the massive set

From: SD

27-Feb-25

Man, you guys are tearing it up! Love those massive ones!

From: Zbone

28-Feb-25

Yeah, dang, you guys have some good bucks running around...

From: Zbone

01-Mar-25

Hadn't checked the Pantry site for a couple weeks so checked it today, March 1st and a few are still carrying racks, at least one fully crown and one half rack...

Also, gobblers strutting around...

From: Zbone

02-Mar-25

Don't know what to believe on the internet... But I have a hard time believing these sheds were found on a PA public hunting land...

If I'm counting right, it's a base L7x6R...

From: SD

03-Mar-25

Been on a couple of walks.

From: SD

03-Mar-25

From: SD

03-Mar-25

From: SD

03-Mar-25

From: Thornton

04-Mar-25

Found these behind my horse pen out in the wheat field. I watched this buck a few times during late archery and early rifle. Pretty amazing he avoided the truckload of neighbors rifle hunting him. They ended up shooting a smaller buck and missed everything else.

From: TonyBear

13-Mar-25

Nothing yet but the last of the snow is just leaving. Found this on a recent hike in the woods. Miles away from any boat landing or walk-in access. Not sure what to make of it. Osprey or eagle theft? Kids playing with Dad's stuff again?

From: ROUGHCOUNTRY

13-Mar-25

3 years of a double drop tine southwest Kansas buck we picked up in a buddy’s lease ground

From: PushCoArcher

13-Mar-25

Glassed a large group in a wheat field Tuesday morning here in Oklahoma. A couple guys still had one horn and a pretty nice 3 year old was still sporting both sides.

From: Zbone

15-Mar-25

"Beware the Ides of March"

This date was when I used to begin shed hunting for some bucks still carry into March and April... The last buck I seen locally fully crowned was Feb 10th and haven't seen one at Deer Pantry site for about a couple weeks...

From: Zbone

15-Mar-25