Found a shed antler

[farsider]

Found this the other day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any idea how this happened?

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

[Daplumma]

That is very cool.Could have been injured ,either the antler or a tramatic injury to another part of him(maybe hit by a car) that diverted the resouces that would build the antler to the injured area.

Joe

[Twocoda]

its not very common ...but im going to guess its a doe button

[camillj]

Sombrero ???

[vinnimon]

Sombrero ???

 

 

It was once worn by Speedy Gonzales

[Guest gbfisher]

its not very common ...but im going to guess its a doe button

 

 

I was gonna say it's looks like it might be from one of those queer deer.

[dave524]

its from a male fawn, google "button buck".

[misfish]

Good call Dave.

 

How the heck did you stumble onto that?

[Handlebarz]

As for score I was going to say tree 1 deer 0 but when I saw the pics I had no clue so I will not say Tree 1 deer 0 and just agree with Dave and our resident game trail camera guy miss I mean Brian.

[basketclam]

Are you sure it's not some sort of wild mushroom? A really, really solid wild mushroom.

[farsider]

Sombrero ???

 

How the heck did you stumble onto that?

 

Actually, when I was first walking up to it, I thought I had found a replacement for one of my Dad's old ceramic toy cowboy hats that had broken (sorry Dad.)

 

I just came across it when I was out walking on Sunday.

 

I have never seen one like this before. It is incredibly smooth at the base with none of the usual bubbled crowning.

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

[richyb]

is it hollow ?

[ChrisK]

Yup,button buck with a little deformity. Pretty common amongst deer..Ive got a couple good oddballs around here that I can snap a few pics of and post later after work if I can remember...