2nd Annual Hunt-WA Head Entries

[Wea300mag]

Post your entries to the head portion of the contest here. Put entries only here, no comments please.

RULES:
1) All deer, elk, moose, sheep, goat, cougar, and legal bear species qualify.
2) The animal must be legally harvested in Washington State during the contest year.
3) The hunter must have a current WDFW hunting license and the tag used on the animal must have been purchased from the WDFW.
4) The hunter must submit an approved story of the hunt, picture of the animal/horns, and claimed score on hunting-washington.com
5) The official B & C or P & Y scoring rules will be used.
6) The score that compares highest in percentage to the state record for that species, horn type (typical vs non-typical) and weapon wins. For example, a modern firearm typical mule deer will be compared to the state record modern firearm typical mule deer and an archery non-typical whitetail will be compared to the record archery non-typical whitetail. Similar for bear and cougar skulls. There will be three different weapon categories; modern firearm, muzzleloader, and archery. Washington Big Game Records will be used as the state records.
7) Prizes: Perpetual (or traveling) trophies will be awarded to the winners in the following two categories: Horns (deer, elk, moose, goat, & sheep) and predator (bear & cougar). Trophies will be retrieved by one of the rules committee members approximately one week from the next years entry deadline for each category, this will be around Christmas for the horn trophy and the first week of March for the predator trophy. Hopefully we can get a few gifts of nominal value donated by some of our sponsors this year.
The hunter must be a hunting-washington.com member by Sept. 1 of the contest year for the horn competition. Hunters entering bear or cougar must be members prior to the season which it was harvested.
9) The rules committee has the right to challenge any and all claimed scores. If there is no clear winner, the top entries will be required to get an official score.
10) In the event that a rules committee member is in running for an award, that member will not be involved in declaring the winner.
11) Seasons will follow the WDFW hunting seasons, Sept 1 to Dec 31 (2009) for the horns competition and spring bear through end of Cat season in March 2010 for the head competition.
12) ) An entry must include a photo of the animal, claimed score, general location of the kill, and weapon used. If either a Blacktail Deer or Roosevelt Elk are being entered, the location must be specific enough to distinguish what species/sub species of Deer or Elk it is.

If you have any questions, please contact any of the following rules committee members, Popeshawnpaul, Slider, boneaddict, and Wea300mag.




1st PLACE TROPHY

Now that we have so many members and the competition is getting tougher, there will be prizes for the 2nd and 3rd place entries in each category (head and horns). Second place will get a t-shirt of your size and color from this link:

http://www.cafepress.com/HuntingWA.325506341

Third place will get a mug from this link:

http://www.cafepress.com/HuntingWA/6333180

[scroder]

Here is my entry for the Hunt-WA Head competition. These are just green scores estimated by Bucklucky, so I'll need to get the official score up when the skull is done. This bear was taken with modern firearm, in the Copalis unit this spring. I want to thank those of you that gave me advice before and during this hunt.

Thank you,

Jason

Fleshed out he went 7 foot and I see you shoot barnes bullets too   Green score around 19 15/16 ish.

follow the link below to the story.

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,28381.msg328966.html#msg328966

[saylean]

Here is the story: http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,26520.0.html

Green Score: 18 4/16 inches.

Weapon Used: .300 WSM 165 grain bullet

General Location: Sultan WA


Added a new pic, due to the picture disappearing during site maintenance.

[Jake T]

here's the original post:  http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,27776.0.html

got the skull back the other day. Score is 20-3/16", here is that post: http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,40340.msg484972.html#msg484972

shot him with 150 grain sierras out of my 7mm mag

harvested around Hamilton, WA

[Wea300mag]

Congrats to Jake T for winning the 2nd Annual Hunt-WA Head Competition. I will get the trophy engraved and delivered to Jake in the next week.

The trophy will stay in Sedro Woolley for another year.


Scroder wins second place and will get a Hunt-WA t-shirt.

Saylean gets third place and a coffee mug.

Congrats to all for entering great bears.

[Austrian Hunter]

Congrats to all three hunters, those are some nice bears!

[Jake T]

THAT FREAKING RULES!!!!!

[saylean]

If you're not first, your last! 

I'll take a mug anyday. Thanks guys and congrats to the other two entries, great bears. Do I pick the mug up or is it sent?

[GoldTip]

Congrats to all on dandy bears.

[scroder]

Thank you! And good luck to all this year.

Jason

[Wea300mag]

I delivered the trophy to Jake T yesterday and found out he was my neighbor about eight houses down the street. It's a small world but makes delivering and retrieving the trophy easy.