#358 - BREAKING NEWS: Biggest Shed Antlers of All Time Were Altered! SOLD for a Million Dollars and Vintage Photos Have Surfaced!

The WHTL Podcast - Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests

Jake Hofer

Publicland, Nature, Deerhunting, Trailcameras, Sports, Wilderness, Outdoors, Exodustrailcameras, Naturestudies

2.4 • 600 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the WHTL Podcast, presented by Moultrie. Your source for Whitetail Deer Hunting Tactics, Stories & Expert Guests. On this week's episode, we are back in the studio with antler collector Jamie Martin talking about the latest bombshell regarding The General Sheds. We discuss:

The breaking news about the General
Cody Idol announced the General was recently sold for a seven-figure price
Photos surfaced showing the General with two sticker points
The General's sheds changed hands multiple times, including a long tenure at Cabela's
The recent discovery of altered points has surprised many in the antler collecting community
The timing of the photo release, shortly after the sale, raises questions about the transaction's validity
Altered antlers can significantly reduce their value in the collector's market
The North American Shed Hunters Club may remove the General from their record book due to the alterations
The Aiuppa buck is trending towards being larger than the Huff buck, with a new score expected soon

And so much more!

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0:00.0	What is going on? Welcome to the Whitetail podcast. This is Jake Hofer. And this week, we are bringing in my friend Jamie Martin, who is a very avid antler collector. And there was some big news last, actually over this weekend, about the general biggest set of typical sheds ever found and you get to hear the full story
0:22.8	about kind of some ins and outs regarding that very interesting story and i hope you guys enjoy it
0:28.4	we are ramping up the video on our videos on our youtube channel obviously we have white tail cribs
0:34.2	coming later this fall and we we are, we're testing around
0:37.7	with some different styles, some different formats for the video version of the podcast.
0:42.0	So if you haven't been over to the YouTube channel here recently, I encourage you to go check
0:45.9	it out.
0:46.8	Michael Perry is a episode that will be kind of our test dummy and will continue to change things.
0:52.2	So just trying to do better, keep improving. And your guys' feedback always means a lot. And we got a lot of honest listeners. And I certainly appreciate that. So real quick, as you know, the White Tau podcast is brought to you by Moultrie. They have some really good sales going on right now. So if you're looking to add more cameras to your fleet, it's a great time to do it. Not only for the timing of summer scouting, but also some pretty steep savings. So check out what multery has going on. Additionally, I want to say thank you to Onex, Hawk Optics, and Painted Arrow for supporting the podcast. Let's get into it. This is a shorter episode this week. I hope you guys
1:27.7	enjoy it.
1:35.2	All right. We have breaking news in the world of deer nuts, dear fanatics, white-tail history.
1:41.3	And I have to bring in Jamie, who is my white-tail historian uh that i talk to
1:46.9	uh somewhat regularly about you know just dear stuff and um recently this weekend uh there was a post
1:54.4	that went up that the general biggest set of sheds ever found biggest and i'll let you you know
2:00.2	give some of the attributes of it but i'll read the post here that i think a lot of people may have seen uh with cody idle who his dad is dick idle who is one of the founding fathers of north american white tail which is the modern history of of white tail hunting i feel like it's pre north american white tail post north american white-North American White Tail. So this is from Cody.
2:22.3	And the post is Breaking Whitetel News on the General. As the majority of the White Tool world knows, the general has been known as the largest typical to ever walk that we know of. He has been
2:27.0	the favorite of many White Two enthusiasts since his sheds were found in Nebraska in 1959.
2:31.9	Decades after decade, the general continued to be featured in magazine covers,
2:35.2	articles, forums, big buck shows, and TV programs.
2:38.4	Basically, best known buck ever.
2:40.8	And very recently, yet another amazing piece of the buck story added to its intrigue
2:44.9	as he was purchased by a private collection from West Virginia for a seven-figure price.
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