Antlers Sink

Last week I posed a question that many of you knew, but others speculated about: Do shed antlers float or … Continued

By Andrew McKean April 12, 2011

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httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2011photo1001321579AntlersSink1.jpg — The answer: They sink. Mule deer antlers sink. See my the blog here.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2011photo1001321579AntlersSink2.jpg — Fresh whitetail sheds sink.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2013images201104AntlersSink3_0.jpg — Older, dried-up whitetail antlers sink.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2013images201104AntlersSink4_0.jpg — Ancient, flaking, baked-on-the-prairie-hardpan mule deer sheds sink.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2013images201104AntlersSink5.jpg — Even older, wafer-light sheds like this tiny shed sink, though this one demonstrated a little buoyancy until it got entirely waterlogged. Then it stayed on the bottom.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2013images201104AntlersSink6_0.jpg — Doesn’t matter how deep the water. Sheds sink. I tried caribou antlers, but they’re even denser than whitetail sheds.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2011photo1001321579AntlersSink7.jpg — You know what doesn’t sink? The hundreds of winterkilled deer carcasses that are floating on our rising floodwater.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2013images201104AntlersSink8_0.jpg — These deer and antelope carcasses are finally thawing out, and bobbing in the current and backwaters in a macabre reminder that Mama Nature is who is in control around here.

Last week I posed a question that many of you knew, but others speculated about: Do shed antlers float or do they sink?

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