Weekend Finds

Ron G. · Post by **Ron G.** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:58 pm

Got out the first weekend of August scouting for deer for the upcoming archery deer season.

Ended up being a pretty good weekend for me in regards to sheds.

First shed I found was an elk antler just off of a forest service road...

I was out walking around looking for deer and stumbled upon this... It is old, but unique.

In my search for deer I stopped to glass an adjacent ridge for bedded deer. While glassing under a clump of trees I saw what looked like elk tines. The treeline was about 850 yds away, and I was using 15x binos. Wanting a little more detail to see if was really seeing an antler or a branch, I put my new Jim White Tripler on my binos. That gave me the detail needed to determine it was indeed an antler. Although excited, I decided to continue on down the ridge I was on before crossing over to the other ridge.

Once I crossed over and entered the treeline, I immediately found this...

I was pretty stoked! I started moving down the treeline towards the clump of trees where I had glassed up the antler. On my way over there I noticed something white above me. Walking up to it I almost stepped on another antler and then realized the white that had originally caught my attention was a stick.

Here is the antler at the bottom and the stick at the top of the picture...

A close up...

I then walked over and found the clump of trees I'd spotted the antler by. I looked around, and there it was...

That was it for the day. Here is my pack loaded with bone...

And my finds for the weekend...

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:08 pm

nice finds! what pack are ya using?

AGCHAWK · Post by **AGCHAWK** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:21 pm

Well I would say that the scouting trip was a success. After all, those 4 points are a year bigger now and in that area SOMEWHERE!

Thanks for sharing!

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:40 pm

and the 2 smaller 4 points are a set right. they look like it

Post by **MuleyMadness** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:59 pm

I really liked the story telling along with the pictures. Great JOB!

Coloradobuck · Post by **Coloradobuck** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:59 am

nice lookin elk! and bucks!

Ron G. · Post by **Ron G.** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:14 am

Thanks everyone.

bigbuck92 wrote:nice finds! what pack are ya using?

The pack in the picture is a Badlands 2200. I really like it and it looks like they've improved upon it some for 2007.

The 2 smaller 4 points are a set.

Post by **Hiker** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:08 am

Great finds Ron G.

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 12:11 pm

ya ive been looking to get me a pack for hunting. thanks for letting me know which one it was

TheGreatwhitehunter · Post by **TheGreatwhitehunter** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:05 am

great finds keep it up