Why two piece tips?

[Osprey]

Just wondering and thinking, but why the advent of two piece antler tips on horns?  Been playing with one, wouldn't it have been so much easier to just make a tip from one section of antler?  Any idea how or why it came about way back when?

[Tim Crosby]

    I would guess that they could make more two part tips out of a rack than one piece, as in don’t waste anything. I have seen and used one piece tips. I use one piece if it is large enough, maybe one per rack but with two parts I can use more of the rack, maybe 3 or 4 tips and smaller racks. Also pieces from two different racks can be used.

   Tim C.

[Artificer]

Though extinct by 1880, Eastern Elk inhabited what is now Western Virginia and West Virginia, so that is perhaps a larger type of antler they could have used in the time period.. Not sure if there is enough difference in Western Elk racks, though they run larger to much larger, but that might be an alternative? 

 I don't know if Virginia Deer run smaller today, but one 10 point I got had tines that were not that big and the bases were not that large - so using them for this purpose was almost out of the question.  A six point I got two years later has much thicker bases and tines and could be used for such things.
Gus

[Carl Dumke]

Just wondering and thinking, but why the advent of two piece antler tips on horns?  Been playing with one, wouldn't it have been so much easier to just make a tip from one section of antler?  Any idea how or why it came about way back when?

Dave,
The challenge is to find a piece that is large enough to shape without running into too much pith.  I have done it in the past, but only when I find the right antler.  Really large antlers often have a big section of pith.  A two piece allows you to take advantage of the anter shape.  IMHO.

[ed1215]

Can`t say it better then what Carl, and Tim said it`s hard o find the right size antler without pith and I can get more from one rack by doing two piece tips

[skillman]

Waste not, want not!!!!  Besides, I'm cheap.

Steve

[The Original Griz]

Waste not, want not!!!!  Besides, I'm cheap.

Steve

^^^ yeah, what Steve said.... me tooooo

[Osprey]

Can`t say it better then what Carl, and Tim said it`s hard o find the right size antler without pith and I can get more from one rack by doing two piece tips

Yeah, but it's more fun to go out and find another buck to shoot!   

[Tim Crosby]

Yeah, but it's more fun to go out and find another buck to shoot!   

 Actually I get more racks this time of year than any other, guys are more apt to give up a drop rather than something they killed. Once the Mushrooms come out there will be more.

  Tim C.

[Osprey]

I was out walking my woods and thickets just now, found one good one.  Can't figure it out though, the bucks I see and get pics of all fall I hardly ever find their sheds, and the sheds I find are off bucks I never see?

[whitebear]

It's simple the bucks that you see go over to someone else's place and shed there racks and pick up sheds from other deer and bring them back for you to find thus keeping you confused and off balance