Hunting Shed Antlers

If you live in an area that deer live in this is a good time of the year to get out in the woods and look for shed antlers. Deer such as the WhiteTail Deer, which is the local species, shed their antlers and grow new ones every year. The pic shows a couple of shed antlers and a drinking cup I made with a shed antler and a cow horn. Antlers can provide interesting material for various  projects such as tool and knife handles , drawer pulls, buttons, or whatever else your imagination comes up with.Hunting for shed antlers is a good excuse to go for a nice walk in the woods. Find a well traveled deer trail and follow it. Keep a sharp watch if you do find a shed antler as supposedly when the deer losses one antler  he tries to knock off the other so he is balanced. I've never found a second but I have talked to people who have. Any antlers us humans do not pick up soon get eaten by rodents for the mineral content. The big shed antler in the pic has the ends of several tines chewed on. The weather here is supposed to be nice tomorrow so I think a walk in the woods is call for!