| Gathering Antlers | | | | easier to find, they are not nearly as impressive as |
| If you've got cabin fever at the end of a long winter, | | | | the beautiful racks of the males. |
| one of the most fun and potentially worthwhile | | | | Horns, on the other hand are not shed each year but |
| activities you can do in deer, moose or elk country is | | | | grow continually throughout the animal's life. Horns are |
| look for shed antlers, aka "sheds". All antlered animals | | | | grown by animals such as the mountain sheep, |
| including deer, elk, moose, and caribou shed their | | | | mountain goat and bison. An exception to this rule is |
| antlers and grow new ones each year. Except for | | | | the Pronghorn antelope which annually sheds a bony |
| caribou, only the males grow antlers. Female caribou | | | | sheath which covers its horns. |
| grow somewhat spindly antlers and, while they're | | | | |