Best three sheds from our first boat trip of the year. One is 27 pounds, another is 25, the last 23. Guess which one is the heaviest.

Glove is an extra large.

The 27lb one?

My guess the one on the right. Nice sheds!

One on left!

I know nothing about moose antlers, but I agree. Not as wide as the others, but looks thicker to me.

Far right.

I'd say right then middle then left. But again no nothing about moose sheds

The left one

Left

Left is my choice.

The one on the left. It is browner, probably fresher. The other 2 look a bit bleached out, this drier and lighter.

Lol....all big antlers.Biggest I ever found here in Maine is 18 pounds which score wise is in the top 50 In the Maine scoring book for a shed antler.

Wow the amount of protein it takes in a season to grow that much antler and keep over 1,000 lbs. healthy is amazing to me. Sure are a lot of nutrients in the wild if you have the system for it.

Bryce

You got out in a boat? Isn't it still jammed up in Russian?
The one on the right is the heavier one.

The one on the left. It's paddle was almost an inch and a half thick along the inside. Crazy the mass it had. Long, thick tines as well. I wish they would include the length of each tine in the score of moose antlers. The other two antlers will score better, in spite of their stubby tines. The other two were just not as thick over all, less mass.

One reason it's darker is it's been rubbing on burned trees from that huge fire we had a few years ago, found it in a burned area. Got character. Yukon ice not moving yet, but the ice on the Yukon has lifted enough for the tributaries ice to break up and go out. Learned a lot about antlers and scoring them from family trapperman.com. wealth of knowledge he has.

The top tines were especially massive on the taller, skinnier paddled antler, unusual: the top tines are most often small and thin, not unusual to see them rubbed off completely on the dominant side antler, bulls will be right or left antlered like we are right or left handed. Some are ambidextrous antlered.

I just cut up another 750 lbs. Got a pretty good handle on moose antler!

Awesome sheds!!!

So you hunted the north side of the river? How many gallons of 9 dollar a gallon gas you burn? How much a pound is antler and how many pounds you get? The Andreafski is out, full open?

That was a profitable trip, even after fuel cost, my third most profitable trip. Can't say how much per pound or where, insider secrets. It's nice to have a few honey holes left. Lots of guys looking for sheds nowadays. The antler buyers give guys who go hard at it extra per pound for extra effort expended, but don't care for prices to be aired out. We found 9 total.

What is the main use for them? How are they utilized?

Dog chews or artwork

C grades: older than two winters. B grades: two winters old. A grades from this winter. C grades, B grades, most A grades go for dog chews. Unusually large antlers that score well, especially sets, go for more to collectors. A grades maller than 6 pounds are craft grade. Sets get a little more a pound. Gnarly nontypicals also command more per pound. A small percentage go for the collector, craft, painting markets. The bulk go to the dog chew market.

My brother in law makes belt buckles, bolo ties, carved eagles, etcetera, out of them. My wife paints them.

My wife is about to paint these two. Self standers that do not require some sort of base or prop to stand with the paddle in a veiwable postion, like the beaver chew log, get a little more a pound.

Some buyers of her paintings like the beaver chews my wife uses for a prop better than having a self stander.

A bolo tie from a tiny yearling base.

This is one of the bigger ones my wife painted, a 25 pounder self slander, I used it to illustrate a message the Lord gave me on fighting above your weight class. We gave it to a church in Texas after preaching in about 60 churches in 26 states. Raised a lot of awareness of the need for pastors in bush villages, had many young me surrender to come to bush villages to minister. God is good.

Some customers want the vein channels sanded flat before she paints, but if left to her druthers, she leaves them and incorporates them into her paintings, she feels they add character to the painting. Hard to show in pictures.

Protein? Do your Wisconsin moose eat protein?

Hair and bone are about 90% protein, so the diet needs a lot of it for that size of an animal. WI does not have a resident or even transient moose population.

Bryce

Can you estimate the pounds of sheds bought in, say, unit 18 per year? The ice jam at Russian broke, didn't it? Must have been a.ot of ice going by KSM!

I cannot say the poundage of shed antlers, you'd have to ask Familytrapper. Went up the South Fork today, ice came in off the Yukon, South Fork started flowing backwards, water rose like crazy, when we came back down river, ice jam across the confluence of the north and south forks, but the water was so high, we drove through the woods on the side of the river to some lakes, paralleled the river a few miles till we were below the jam, then cut back through the woods to the timber, navigated through the flowing ice a few miles, made it back to town.

Just got back home. It was 2 a m when we made it back to town.

I cannot say the poundage of shed antlers, you'd have to ask Familytrapper. Went up the South Fork today, ice came in off the Yukon, South Fork started flowing backwards, water rose like crazy, when we came back down river, ice jam across the confluence of the north and south forks, but the water was so high, we drove through the woods on the side of the river to some lakes, paralleled the river a few miles till we were below the jam, then cut back through the woods to the timber, navigated through the flowing ice a few miles, made it back to town.

I see the lower part of KSM flooding. Pics on Fbook. Anyone still, living at Pitkas Point? High water must mean some of the sheds you want are under water, eh?