It was not. Just laying in the grass. I suppose it could have been in water and then the water receded but I don't know as I don't have much history with with lease - having just joined in July.
I do know that the area is now underwater due Irma....but it surely isn't stopping deer from moving through there.
However, i did notice when I sat the area that there was very little "sound" / movement from the everyday animals such as squirrels. Maybe the high water and thick underbrush keeps them out.
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The reason I mentioned being under water, many years ago, say about 1972+/-, when Bull Creek WMA was officially known as Jane Green WMA, I found a big heavy shed in the edge of one of the creeks. It had been a wet summer and the water had been up and apparently covered the antler, protecting it from the squirrels and rats. It also had retained its' natural color, similar the one you found. All the other sheds I have found have been bleached white by the sun.
We have a piece of an antler that my father-in-law retrieved from a cows mouth. She was acting strange when they penned the cows and he retrieved the highly polished piece of antler that was some how stuck in her mouth. He's an ol' time Florida cowhunter and said it was not unusual to see woods cows chewing on shed antlers. He felt they were seeking the mineral locked in the antler, calcium I suppose.
I've got several sheds and all but that, one show evidence of rodents chewing on them.
Again, I hope you run across the buck that used to wear that shed!
Treefarmer
congratulations.
Treefarmer, wow. That's pretty neat about the cows eating the antlers. I guess it's natures mineral lick!
Amazing how they can sniff that out and eat it.
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Well done .
