For “shed hunters” – a passionate clade of foresters who spend much of their spare time hunting for moose antlers in snowy woods – finding a freshly shed, matching pair is near the top of the wishlist. Antler-collector Derek Burgoyne got that and more when he recently filmed the rare moment a bull moose shed its pointy headgear, before following its tracks to retrieve the fallen prize.
Burgoyne, who works as a woods operation supervisor, was surveying birch and maple trees using a drone in a remote patch of New Brunswick when he spotted a trio of moose bedding down in a clearing. As the animals began to disperse, Burgoyne tracked one of the bulls with his drone and began recording.
“What they’ll often do after being bedded in the snow is they’ll shake their body to rid themselves of the snow and water,” the drone operator explained to CBC. But this moose shook off a lot more than…
