AntlerBuyers.com launches live antler price tool for shed hunters

AntlerBuyers.com’s Current 2026 Antler Prices tool breaks sheds into elk, whitetail, mule and moose categories, with A, B and C grades for each species, but the live chart currently shows $0.00 a pound across the board. It also lists 0 verified antler buyers and 0 verified antler sellers, a reminder that the number on the screen depends entirely on the quality of the data behind it.

The site says the system pulls pricing submissions from buyers, sellers and brokers and turns them into a weighted average built from the last 60 days of data. Buyer input carries 90 percent of the weight and seller input 10 percent. AntlerBuyers.com also offers a free API for live pricing data, and the documentation says authentication is required and rate limiting is in place.

Jon Waraas built AntlerBuyers.com after dealing with what he describes as bad antler buyers, and the site now presents itself as one of the larger shed-hunting communities online. The homepage points users toward pricing information, buyer reviews and buyer directories, which fits a market where the difference between a clean elk antler and a rough, weathered pile can mean real money. The tool is built around that kind of sorting, which is the part many sellers miss when they assume every rack or shed gets priced the same way.

The pressure is real. Shed antlers were selling for about $13 a pound, nearly double the price of two decades ago, which helps explain why a live benchmark matters to anyone deciding whether to sell now or hold for a better offer. State rules still shape the supply too. Wyoming Game and Fish regulates shed-antler collection on public land west of the Continental Divide, excluding the Great Divide Basin. Colorado Parks and Wildlife bans shed-antler and horn collection on public lands west of I-25 from January 1 through April 30 each year. Utah’s 2026 field regulations add an ethics-course requirement for antler collection from January 1 to May 31, 2026.

For shed hunters, the real lesson sits in the empty chart itself. Until those zeros turn into real buyer and seller activity, the tool is less a finished price sheet than a live market gauge, and it only works when a hunter knows exactly what landed in the truck.