ShootAI, Millerish, Just a Hunter: Appreciate all your inputs. I am off and headed east today chasin guns and will take my "bino's" along in my high mileage car with me. i will be driving through a lot of good Elk country.
Reminds me of an Elk Shed I found high in the foothills of the west slope of the Snowcrest Range of the Rocky Mountains a few years ago.
I found a beautiful long "spike" shed and it is still holding brown colors.
Anyway I was fly fishing at a high, remote, seldom frequented lake - I am sure the lake is 7,500' elevation and I got to wondering back then - that spike Elk should not have been there at that elevation in March (when I thought all Elk shed their antlers) just way to much snow there at that time of year.
Obviously that spike Elk kept his antler on until the Elk returned to that country (elevation) on or about the first of May (green up at that elevation).
I consider my self an avid (but obviously an amateur!) nature watcher - I will try and watch more closely in the future.
Thanks again.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
