coppertop
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Sunday after snowshoeing over 200+ yrds of 3'-4.5' snowdrifts to check my camera I spent 4.5 hours searching mostly tamarack swamp and cattails that at times were a foot over my head only to find this antler laying under a small group of cedar trees in a crp field that they have pretty much chewed down to nothing laying on about the only open ground I'd seen all day. It's a 4pt with decent tine length except for the small brow. Also, this is by far the darkest shed I've ever found and is not the match to the one I refered to in my post, Shed right out from under me. So, with alot of luck I know there are 2 more needles in the haystack to look for, 
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Mark Johnson
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That is a dark-un, very nice shed!  Nice pictures too, I get excited and forget to do that before I pick em up.
Good luck on your next find!!
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Lip Ripper
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Nice find indeed Copper.
My budddy from ND is coming down and bringing all the ones he has found so far this year (quite a few 10 or so). Looking forward to seeing what is out there.
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Lip Ripper (aka Rob Stenger)
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Brad Juaire
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Nice find Copper!  Your determination finally paid off for you!
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Brad "Grifter" Juaire
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RVRAT
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Congrats Randy
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Dartman
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Nice find! Do you think you have any trail cam pics of him from last season?
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Walleyebuster5
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Nice work Randy!!! Congrats! And yes, I'm sure you already know if you had him on camera. SO, Do you?
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coppertop
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Thanks Guys, This was only my 3rd time out and a total of roughly 11-12 hours. I'm typically happy if I find one or two a year as there's alot of area for those deer to roam in the swamp. I'm going to check my cam pics to see but it's possible I could have got a pic of him late Dec as I had a couple pics of buck roughly his size but I remeber being bummed that both were at bad angles and may make it tough to tell.
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coppertop
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Rob, If you get a chance to take a few pics of the sheds from ND it would be great to see those. Man, that's alot of sheds and this early already!
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Lip Ripper
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He is wintering a few hundred (100-200) around his place this year, thus the many sheds. I will get pics and post on Monday!
Good luck to everyone looking this weekend.
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Lip Ripper (aka Rob Stenger)
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