The second part of this year’s Boy Scout Elk Antler Auction was conducted over the weekend bringing the total sales for the year to a record-setting $305,369. However, Scout District Chairman Cliff Kirkpatrick says not all of the antlers sold this year were collected in 2021, and a good portion was matched pairs which commands a higher price.
About 1500 pounds were unsold antlers from 2020. None-the-less, even subtracting the yield from the sale of those antlers, the total ran about 50% above previous years. Kirkpatrick recalls when the antler sales in Jackson broke $200-thousand in 2014 with the then-startling total of $233,614.
This years $305-thousand compares with the total in 2020’s online auction of $158,885. A lion’s share of the proceeds from the annual auction are used by the National Elk Refuge for habitat enhancement for the wintering elk.
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