Corey W. shared this huge shed on Facebook. From the looks of the green mold and the chewed beam tip, the white-grade antler had been lying out there for a couple years. What a great secret souvenir! Corey said: A true Canadian Monarch!!! 5 point side, typical, nearly 90 inches!!! This is type of deer that roam the wilds of Saskatchewan! Yes. Although the antler quality has been down the last couple of years in the region of northern Saskatchewan where I hunt, the possibility of running across a buck that grows and sheds an antler like this is why I keep going back up there every November. BTW, this is a typical antler for Saskatchewan, super heavy mass throughout [...]

I was looking back through the BIG DEER archives, and ran across this most unusual shed hunt we have ever posted. Man, you never know what you’re going to find in the woods: About 20 years ago, some Missouri guys had been shed hunting all day to no avail when they decided to check a 2-acre thicket around an old homestead. Walking around the crumbled stone foundation, one fellow found an old well. He kneeled, looked down and saw the remains of this buck down in it. The hunters first thought that maybe someone had poached the deer the previous season and stuffed it in there. But when they pulled the deer out, there were no bullet holes in the body [...]