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Build Your Own Antler Trap to Collect Sheds
Cal Sportsman ^
| 11/12/2015
| C Buckner
Posted on 11/12/2015 9:13:42 AM PST by w1n1
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:13:42 AM PST
by
w1n1
To: w1n1
Why are these things not all over the forest floor? We have a ton of deer around my house and I never see them
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:15:21 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(If it is HilLIARy -vs- Jeb! then I am writing-in Palin/Cruz)
To: w1n1
In Nevada it is specifically forbidden to bait game animals.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:17:12 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
To: w1n1
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:17:40 AM PST
by
defconw
(Fight all error, and do it with good humor, patience, kindness and love. -St. John Cantius)
To: Mr. K
You have to beat the antler fairy to them.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:18:17 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
("It gets late early around here..." Yogi)
To: Mr. K
I’ve only ever found 1 and it was heavily gnawed on by squirrels or something. (Which probably explains why they aren’t laying all over the place.)
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:19:25 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: w1n1
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:23:28 AM PST
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: w1n1
Cute. Around these parts, porcupines eat them. Their favorite snack.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:23:33 AM PST
by
apoxonu
To: Mr. K
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:24:10 AM PST
by
apoxonu
To: w1n1
In years of hunting and farming, I have seen exactly one antler shed. It was sticking out of a rear tractor tire. I’d think a lot of them just get buried in the leaves and under growth by winter snow. I’ve also wondered if Coyotes or other varmints would chew on them.
They do make great knife handles.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:24:46 AM PST
by
IamConservative
(There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
To: Mr. K
Why are these things not all over the forest floor? Mice and other rodents gnaw them up fairly quickly.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:25:31 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
To: mad_as_he$$
In Nevada it is specifically forbidden to bait game animals. In VT it is specifically forbidden to possess any game animal parts that you did not legally shoot/trap yourself.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:25:48 AM PST
by
Straight Vermonter
(Liberals support high taxes on alcohol, tobacco and wealth. And all for the same reason.)
To: mad_as_he$$
That’s what I was thinking. Isn’t that illegal?
Of course there is that thing I saw one time “This corn is for squirrels only - any deer caught eating the squirrel food will be shot on sight!”.
To: Mr. K
I think other animals must knaw on them.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:27:42 AM PST
by
lacrew
To: w1n1
“”””But for many hunters there is just not always enough time to get in the woods and hunt sheds.””””
‘If you are too busy to hunt or fish, then you’re too busy.’
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:40:58 AM PST
by
envisio
(I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
To: w1n1
[[There are many benefits to walking through the woods and searching for deer sheds.]]
Yep, lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever, Human anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Powassan , STARI , Tularemia ,
Hunta virus, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, West nile virus,
Happy antler hunting
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:58:17 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: Mr. K
I think that small forest critters like mice and squirrels gnaw them away for the calcium content. Plus they look a lot like a tree branch to the casual observer. I read once of a man who had taught a dog to sniff them out and retrieve them.
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posted on
11/12/2015 9:58:39 AM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
To: w1n1
Mrs. NHD picked up more than a half dozen on our property last year.
To: w1n1
When I'm traipsing out in the Interior West wilderness, I always will collect a shed if I come across one. My favorite was an ancient (almost broke up into powder when I touched it) shed on the very edge of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon at an extremely remote area.
When I get home, I like to string them up on the eave of one of my sheds, but this one was too fragile, so I keep it on an outdoor table.
Yes, sheds for the shed...
All mule deer sheds, by the way.
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posted on
11/12/2015 10:06:20 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
To: w1n1
When I'm traipsing out in the Interior West wilderness, I always will collect a shed if I come across one. My favorite was an ancient (almost broke up into powder when I touched it) shed on the very edge of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon at an extremely remote area.
When I get home, I like to string them up on the eave of one of my sheds, but this one was too fragile, so I keep it on an outdoor table.
Yes, sheds for the shed...
All mule deer sheds, by the way.
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posted on
11/12/2015 10:06:39 AM PST
by
Flycatcher
(God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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