Don Leeding's black Labrador, Jackie, retrieves a shed antler in a Platte River valley woodland. For eons, man has been finding ways to put that cold wet thing on the end of his best friend's face to ...

CHAPMANVILLE, W.Va. — A lot of West Virginia deer hunters spend the down months of January, February, and some of the month of March wandering through the state’s hills and hollows hoping to spot shed ...

NORTHFIELD, Minn. -- Rookie dived into a field of snow, his nose plowing a groove toward an unseen object. "Find some bone, Rookie. Find 'em," said dog trainer Tom Dokken, Rookie's owner. In his 30 ...

WATERFORD – The mid-morning sun shimmered off bright grass and pods of flowering shrubs and greening trees on the grounds at Golden Arrow Bowhunters near Waterford. The area southwest of the clubhouse ...

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 ...

More than a dozen dogs whose owners had signed them up for a clinic arrived full of energy Saturday morning. Smokin' Guns Woarking Dog Club, which gathers weekly to let dogs and their owners try fun ...

Apr. 3—Reyes Salazar remembers the stillness of the mountains when he began religiously searching for elk and deer antlers in the wild a little over 10 years ago. "It was real quiet," recalled Salazar ...

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 ...

With the Michigan weather warming up and spring right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to get outside and enjoy nature. Deer populations in Michigan typically shed their antlers between ...

Walking in the woods and along the field lines, you never know what you or your dog may find — maybe even an antler that a nice buck recently dropped. White-tailed deer shed their antlers over late ...

I’ve been hunting in the woods lately, but without a firearm or a bow. Vernal pools are boiling with mating wood frogs. Honking geese fill the skies. Trees have not yet begun to bud so the sun is warm ...

Did that big buck make it? That’s what many wildlife watchers and deer hunters want to know as winter ends. Did the buck they were watching make it through the season? Finding an antler can answer ...