You might be a little early if you head out shed antler hunting now, but you also might be the bird who gets the worm. Bucks, male deer, shed their antlers each year. This typically happens from ...

Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail shed antlers. Back in the day “shed hunting” was reserved for a few of ...

The regular 2025-2026 deer season will end on January 19, with the closing of the flintlock season. Those hunters that have been unsuccessful will no doubt be thinking about the big buck that got away ...

Antlers are a big reason why many hunt for deer and elk. I’m not saying it’s right, but it is the truth. The desire for big bucks continues to increase as the number of big bucks also increases on the ...

Apr. 3—Reyes Salazar remembers the stillness of the mountains when he began religiously searching for elk and deer antlers in the wild a little over 10 years ago. "It was real quiet," recalled Salazar ...

Shed hunting is all the rage among serious whitetail hunters these days, and rightly so. It’s a fun way to spend time in the woods and it’s a thrill to find the antler of a big buck you plan to hunt ...

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If you want to hook someone into hunting, you need to make it fun. Sitting still for hours on end in the freezing cold, hushing them to be quieter, is likely not the best way to build a hunter. Start ...

FOREST RIVER, N.D. – If this was a baseball game, the regular starters would have been absent, only to be replaced by three rookie fill-ins who came off the bench to take their place. It wasn’t a ...

Hunting for shed antlers has become such a popular activity in recent years that Colorado Parks and Wildlife has to warn collectors not to hunt before the season starts. Shed antlers are antlers ...

FOREST RIVER, N.D. – If this was a baseball game, the regular starters would have been absent, only to be replaced by three rookie fill-ins who came off the bench to take their place. It wasn’t a ...