From Mike C., The Antler Collector on Facebook: Nearly 18 years of trying to buy one of the most outstanding sets of Kansas sheds I have ever seen came to reality yesterday. This set was picked up 20-plus years ago in eastern Kansas by Dave Griffin. Very little was ever spoken of this elusive giant, as Dave was VERY private. And man was he a tough cookie to break. But finally he agreed to let them go. Here are a few of the stats. The animal’s right antler is an amazing 4-point with a few non-typicals. It scores 85 3/8, just from the typical 4 points. If it was clean, this would have been a world-record 4-point. The G-2 is [...]

Scott sent this picture of a beautiful set of 181-inch sheds he found a few years back. He had them stained, which I think looks good, but which knocks back the value of the antlers. I asked Mike at The Antler Collector for an appraisal of these sheds; you can use his response as a track to run on if you have a large set you might want to sell sometime: Split G-2 hurts the net…Stain, ouch, not good news. And pen-raised deer have swallowed up the prices up on the wild racks. An antler like this would need to be sold on Ebay in my opinion. He would get between $125 and $300 if lucky. A lot of 220- [...]

  Excerpt from Giant Whitetails, which I co-authored with Mark and Terry some years ago. Many people consider this to be one of the most informative books ever published on hunting mature whitetail books. I agree, but then I'm biased. Terry’s words on sheds: Mark and I have become almost as fanatical about hunting sheds as we are about observing and scouting deer. We’ve learned that when you put the two tactics together, you can really pin down the core areas and specific movements of mature bucks. We start looking for sheds as soon as the snow melts in late winter. Here in the Midwest, most bucks cast their antlers from the first week of February to the second week of [...]