Strange box sitting on my front porch when I got home

violentblue · Post by **violentblue** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:51 pm

Husker wrote:Fun game. There were some people who were somewhat close.

What was in the box, was a set of shed Moose antlers. For someone who has only seen whitetail deer (and a couple mule deer, and a few elk), these things are pretty huge.

Here is a pic. NOTE the ruler in the middle is 18" for reference.

H.

those are just tiny ones, my brother has moose with bigger ones than that in his back yard (take a good look around before you head out towards your truck, hate to get stuck between a mother and her calf)

Post by **Husker** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 12:58 pm

I figured these would be trivial for some of our family from the great white north, but here in corn country, there aint nary a moose to be had. We got shit loads of deer (Some areas are getting up to 150 to 180 animals per square mile, and that WAY too high of a concentration number), but no moose, and only the rouge elk every couple years.

We do finally have a few mountain lions showing up, which I guess it would be hard to keep them out forever, with all that deer flesh on the hoof.

I just thought it was a strange thing to have arrive (that the wife bought, not me), in a friken huge box on the front porch.

H.

big worm · Post by **big worm** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 2:39 pm

your wife sounds like mine...never can tell what she will dig up next.

smokerscully1 · Post by **smokerscully1** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 4:49 pm

I didn't have a clue what Husker was talking about--here's a pic of the front of my place on opening day.

Post by **Husker** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 5:43 pm

Yup, I figured canooks would show some "real" moose.

r those skinned out, or caped ?

H.

Post by **blanikdog** » Sun Apr 06, 2008 8:08 pm

They look a lot like bandicoot antlers to me.

blanik

rumbaba · Post by **rumbaba** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 3:45 am

blanikdog wrote:They look a lot like bandicoot antlers to me.

blanik

Yeah, but they only little'uns

smokerscully1 · Post by **smokerscully1** » Mon Apr 07, 2008 11:18 am

Believe it or not Husker those heads are on thier way to the dump!
Those are Native harvested moose and the powers that be won't let me sell them--you can't eat horn.
'Course the powers that be would prolly frown on some of my other hobby's too.

trthskr4 · Post by **trthskr4** » Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:35 am

Rabbits and mice love to chew on shed antlers, they're rich in minerals, vitamins and the like. Course I think a rabbit will chew on anything that's slower than it.