Disclaimer: no animals were hurt or killed during the collection process. Every one of these antlers was picked up after the deer shed them. The two on the right belonged to the same buck: they are a matched set, but were collected different years. How weird is that to stumble upon both antlers, but different years?
I just liked the play of light on the antlers. The above was with flash. Below is without.
Jaci Dawn 
How do you know they are from the same deer?
Sheri –
1) they are symmetrical and 2) we were living in Beavercreek at the time. This big old Blacktail buck lived on the 80 acres behind our place. He was very hard to catch (hunters tried). We found the one antler one year and were tickled pink: it’s huge for blacktail. The next summer, I stumbled across the other half. It’s been mouse-chewed because it lay on the forest floor so long, but it’s a perfect match and belongs to the other side of the head. That was some buck that lived in those woods (my husband never hunted him: he liked the idea of such a big buck loose that could elude other hunters. 🙂 )
Thanks Jaci, We live on 150 acres and have a lot of deer, turkies, pheasants, ducks etc. People are always asking us if they can hunt here but we so enjoy having the wildlife we would never hunt here. By the way, my husband is a big hunter too!
That’s so cool that you have all that acreage, Sheri! I think that even if we lived on land that Don would choose to not hunt there. It’s about having the wildlife around. 🙂
I agree, it is a real privelage to have acreage and the wildlife is a bonus!