In this episode of the Outdoor Life podcast, antler collector Josh Duncan tells the incredible backstory of “The General”.

“Shed season” is finally here. Well, one could take that a couple ways. Some would guess that we are preparing for spring cleanup now that winter is on the run and it’s finally March. But many others ...

Here in Western New York, as soon as the snow starts to leave the hills and fields, it’s time to hunt for “drops,” or whitetail shed antlers. Back in the day “shed hunting” was reserved for a few of ...

We’ve all got busy schedules, so when it comes to maximizing our shed-hunting efforts, it’s natural to ask, When do deer shed their antlers? And, ideally, we'd like as precise an answer as possible.

Some of the biggest whitetail bucks ever to walk this earth were never fooled by a hunter, nor found dead by anyone. More than one had the headgear to become B&C and P&Y world records, but none is ...

Every summer, white-tailed deer grow antlers and every winter they fall off. With the explosive growth of the deer population in recent years comes a similar spike on “shed hunting” — a pastime ...

TWO HARBORS — Joe Shead has been shed hunting since 2001. Shead (yes, it's pronounced "shed") literally wrote the book on shed hunting in 2006: "Shed Hunting: A Guide to Finding White-Tailed Deer ...

TRI-LAKES AREA — The first shed white-tailed deer antler I found was a discovery that came about totally by accident. I didn’t deer hunt when I was a teenager because I had no place to go hunting. But ...

"Bucks dropping their antlers already." It’s becoming a common refrain in the late-season deer camp. And it’s true. Each year whitetail antler “drops” or “sheds” are picked up during deer season. And ...

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From the middle of January through the middle of March, Whitetail deer in Iowa shed their antlers. If you want to hunt sheds, the best time to find them is around February 20. The best place to look ...