Posted on 04/03/2022 9:39:31 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
“Nowadays, you go out there and you see people from Colorado, from Utah, from Texas,” said Salazar, who lives on the west side of Mount Taylor, which is considered a prime shed-hunting area in northwestern New Mexico.
It’s no wonder. Although antlers are not easy to find, they’re essentially money on the ground. A fresh, brown antler from a bull elk, for example, can fetch as much as $18 a pound.
“If it’s got some super big size to it ... I’m gonna pay pretty much whatever the [shed hunter] is crazy enough to ask for it if I’m crazy enough to pay what he’s asking,” said Trinity Walker, a respected antler broker who was buying sheds Saturday in Española. “I’ve had sets of elk sheds I’ve paid 3,500 bucks, 4,500 bucks for.”
Shed hunters were driving their off-road vehicles and snowmobiles “all over the landscape,” she said.
“They would chase mule deer over fences, hoping that the antlers would fall off when they jumped the fence,” she said. “Dogs were trained to collect shed antlers and would chase big herds of mule deer and pick up the antlers that would fall off as they were running.”
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Shed antler obsession appears to be an aspect of green lunacy. They are icons for Democrats.
I was fortunate to find one from a deer on the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge in SW OK while on an outing with my Boy Scout troop when I was a Scout Master back in the 90s. At that time, I had no idea there was money in such things. I later learned of a Boy Scout troop in Jackson Hole WY that finances their entire budget on sheds picked up on the National Elk Refuge just north of JH.
I’ve seen things made out of them, like lamps, chandeliers, coffee tables.
I’ve got a couple around here somewhere, in case I ever need some antler for a knife handle or something. I don’t bother with the weathered ones I find. Certainly don’t go out looking for them.
I have admit that my expectations when I read then headline was 100% different than the actual story. I thought it was hunting from a shed.
As I understand it, those uses take up a lot of the supply but the big demand is from Asia to be ground up and used as an aphrodisiac.
Jackson, WY has a few.
Wow. We find them all the time - many of them in my tractor tires. Rural West/Central TX is full of deer, I have 3 separate herds on my property currently numbering about 30, 1/3 or so are bucks.
Jackson, WY has a few.
I HAVE SEEN IT.
Inside Putin’s cancer checkups and deer antler blood baths: report
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Antlers have been getting a lot of attention lately, maybe we should all stock up before the shortage.
No, not even.............close
I've shot a few bucks...And their horns are mounted on my walls........
Found a matching pair of sheds..once...13 points..... and they were tiny.
I’m skeptical that they use very many sheds for that purpose. There are farmed elk that have their antlers cut off while they’re in velvet for the purpose of aphrodisiacs. Bloody damn mess.
And no I don't call that hunting. I call that shooting.
Huntin is when I'm camped out in my tipi with a wood stove and up on the mountain laying on the ground to ambush the critters with my smokepole.
People harassing deer and elk on their winter range ought to have their snowmobiles confiscated.
Way back in 1881, a man named Albert Friedrich opened Albert’s Buckhorn Saloon on Dolorosa Street in downtown San Antonio, Texas. An enterprising entrepreneur, Friedrich opened the saloon with the offer: “Bring in your deer antlers and you can trade them for a shot of whiskey or a beer.” And so, the world’s most unique collection of horns and antlers began. Albert’s father, Wenzel, soon joined in on the act, making handmade horn furniture fro the saloon. In no time at all, cowboys and hunters began to bring in horns and trophy mounts from all kinds of animals.
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/tx-buckhornsaloon/
The Buckhorn Saloon.
Thanks, that was fun.
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