Antler Sale weekend.

So that's what they do with all those sheds they race around collecting.

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Do they collect the skulls also or are they from a farming operation?

The pictures remind me of the tobacco auctions from the 70's....

where is this?

I could put those to great use!

I believe many must be from farm raised stock. Except the moose.
I enjoy looking for moose antlers. Should be out today I wish. We use them for dog chews for our Chesapeake. And I've trained her to hunt them up.
For me. It's a nice time in the bush. Foraging n such

Every year starting May 1st in Wyoming you can hunt antlers. The elk and moose and deer are usually sheds.

Hundreds if not 100's of people head into the mountains to collect them. At 18.00 a pound you can do really well. The boy scouts get the first crack at the feed grounds and depending on how much snow that year they can do very well funding their troops.

My hubby is a hoarder of shed and there is a stack as tall as the ceiling in my barn loft.

i would love to have been able to go there. i collect antlers myself. i have them on the fireplace, the mantle , on top of my china cabinet etc. i think i might only have deer though with one exception. what animal are those wide ones from in the last pic PW? ~Georgia

Those are moose. Smaller than Canadian or Alaskan Moose.

Jackson, I assume?

I have been so busy, I didn't get a chance to go shed hunting this year.

What do you use it for?

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The people I know who hunt for them use them for making arts and crafts, chandeliers, knife handles, buttons and other types of fasteners, jewelry, belt buckles, decoration on clothing, hat and coat racks, candle holders, gun racks, making fancy weapons out of them, furniture or decorations on furniture, coffee tables, stools, carved statues ...... all sorts of stuff like that and more.

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I've heard tell that the Chinese use powdered antler as hardener. That may not be true now what with the little blue pill...