New MN Record Sheds!!!

[Mayfly]

Official measurers at the Duluth Boat, Sports and Travel Show on Thursday measured a set of shed antlers that took over first place among all Minnesota shed antlers. The two antlers of the typical 12-point buck were found Feb. 9 and 10 near Excelsior, Minn., by Jay Miller of Excelsior. Miller is a vendor at the boat show and brought the antlers along to be measured.

The right antler scored 91 3/8 and the left scored 89 5/8, according to the panel of official measurers. The net score of the set is 175 0/8, and that, of course, is without an inside-spread measurement.

Tom Miller of the North American Shed Hunters Club in Lyndon Station, Wis., confirmed that the set of sheds is now the top-ranked set in Minnesota and is also the sixth-ranked set in the world. The North American Shed Hunters Club is the official record-keeping body for shed antlers.

The antler points are nearly symmetrical, and the tines are exceptionally long. Miller said he had seen the buck on his trail camera throughout January. Miller saw the buck in person on Feb. 7 and noticed that it had dropped its right antler. He began searching for it on Feb. 8. He found the right antler on Feb. 9 and the left a day later within a quarter-mile of where he found the first antler.

Dennis Petrick of the Minnesota Official Measurers signed the score-sheet for the measurement of Jay Miller’s antlers, but Petrick said it was also panel-scored, meaning that several measurers conferred during the measuring process.

[Outdoors Junkie]

Those are some nice antlers!  I bet the next goal is to see if the big fella will walk by while he is in the stand this fall. 

[dakids]

Metro buck.  Excelsior has some big boys!!!! Can you hunt in excelcior?

[Mayfly]

Is this him?
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[Mayfly]

On his right there is that little crab claw in the video. I the above picture it maybe looks like it was there but broke off?? 

[dakids]

Looks the same.  The deer is a metro giant that will be chased by poachers now that the word is out and they have an idea where he lives.

[huntingfreak_09]

thats awesome i live bout 5 mins from Excelsior! 

[whiteoakbuck]

  good post thanks

[whiteoakbuck]

good post thanks

looks like the same deer to me

[Stume24]

Lucky to have found them! I was lucky to see this giant on the hoof once. Was planning on looking for the sheds but I guess I can make other plans now! Any metro shed addicts wanna go out? Hit me up!

[dakids]

Welcome stume24

[Tyler Rother]

I'd be interested in it once some of the snow melts.

[Mayfly]

Lucky to have found them! I was lucky to see this giant on the hoof once. Was planning on looking for the sheds but I guess I can make other plans now! Any metro shed addicts wanna go out? Hit me up!

Lets go!

[Joe@deerhunters]

 

I worked that show everyday except the one day he brought the sheds in to be measured!
What a buck...............

[MnDeerStalker]

Looks like a similar rack but I'm not convinced it's the same deer as mno stated the crab claw is broke off and in the picture above looks like he possibly had one but the angle looks like it would be wrong  ? In any event it would still be worth going and taking a look for sheds.

[O man]

Looks like the same buck!

[kenhuntin]

It is confirmed and an absolute fact that is the same buck. Just by happenstance I was just tonight visiting with Mr Miller at his residence and drueling over those sacred sheds. That buck and his genetically superior kin brothers are off limits to any type of hunting. That is why he grew the way he did. The excelsior buck met his demise the following spring while still in velvet due to a car/deer fatality. The guy that recovered the carcass tried to find the antlers by torching the velvet off. In case you did not realize this destroys any useable part.Velvet antlers are really volatile and need to injected with formeldehyde or the like to be preserved