Our friend Ryan is picking up the slack for us in Alaska while we are in Montana.  Thankfully he lets me post his finds on the website.  His pictures keep Aaron and I sane, though it is terribly hard not to find our own antlers.

This was a great find. After  not having snow for the month of November and very cold temperatures the snow finally came and Ryan was lucky to find this shed just barely sticking through the snow.

Then he found some blood which led him to a real treasure of a find.  We'd just been talking over the phone the night before that he deserved to find a set dropped together, and sure enough a heck of a find.  Doesn't get much better than this.

Fellow Alaska shed hunter, "the bird" found this antler sticking out of the ice on one of his shed hunting excursions.  He didn't have the time to try and get the rack out of the ice, so our friend Ryan took on the task.

It was an entire moose that had somehow expired in the pond.  some of its body was sticking out of the snow, but pretty much the whole thing was frozen in good.  It took a total of three, I believe, trips in to finally extract the moose rack from the ice.  The ice was over a foot deep and it took some planning and hauling in tools for the guys to finish the extraction.

They had to cut the entire head off underwater to free the antlers.  Of course none of the guys would stick their arm in the water to do the sawing so they rigged a Gerber sport saw to the end of their pick axe to saw the esophagus of.

"The Bird" found this set during a short stay he had in town.  I know he found a number of older antlers that didn't leave the woods with him, but I'm pretty sure theses went back to Dillingham with him.

I'm sure I would've missed this one.  Not too often you find old antlers during the winter.  This is a fine old antler, long tines and good size. Too bad it wasn't found earlier.

These two bulls were just nestled down in the snowstorm.  Kind of hard not to sit and watch for those antlers to drop off....

After days and days of snow, Ryan was surely getting frustrated and worried about the lack of antlers he'd find. After a day of covering ground he saw the bull from the snow storm sporting just one antler.  Not far behind him he found the antler ready to be buried by snow.