Thanks! I have never seen that before. It sure looked funny, esp. compared to the young buck deer antlers.I think all yearling elk and deer start with no branches. I have a small collection of shed spikes. There's a small deer antler with 2 points in there (I went to take a photo for you and I'm like "what's that doing in my bundle of spikes?" but the rest are elk spikes. I worked at a big ranch for a couple of summers in my younger day and it had a huge elk population. The cowboys called the yearling deer & elk "spikes", not just the antlers. "I saw a small herd of Spikes over in that valley this morning".
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