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Offline buckmaster_wa

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Biggest spike elk.
« on: March 03, 2009, 08:50:37 AM »
Lets see pics of the biggest spike elk you have gotten. Here is a pic of a spike my buddy and I got a few years back. That was a tough day. We packed out two spikes in one day. Started at 0900 hrs and got back to the truck at 2300 hrs.

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2009, 08:52:54 AM »
We packed out the first one and then when driving out of the area we spotted this one way up the mountain. After we shot it we figured we could just drag it down the hill easy enough. Not so easy. There were dead falls everywhere and it was so steep I got ran over about a dozen times(by the elk).

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2009, 11:13:17 AM »
We packed out the first one and then when driving out of the area we spotted this one way up the mountain. After we shot it we figured we could just drag it down the hill easy enough. Not so easy. There were dead falls everywhere and it was so steep I got ran over about a dozen times(by the elk).

I was just about to ask how in the world you packed it out whole.

Nice work!!

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2009, 11:24:32 AM »
Have never shot a spike, but saw one up in the Marble unit one year hunting that had 4 foot spikes.  They were like sabers, as big around as my forearm at the base.  Gamey told me later that the bull had been a 6x7 the year before, and regressed.
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2009, 03:03:16 PM »
never shot a spike. But I helped a guy load a 3x1 into his truck. It had a ton of mass and the 3 point side was like a club.

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2009, 03:52:02 PM »
here is mine my packout was pretty easy droped him on a old skidder road pulled right up to him with the quad and got him out.


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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2009, 05:10:10 PM »
cool pics fellas.  i have not killed a spike.i have seen a few crazy tall spikes also.not sure the story.i have heard that some bulls will always be spikes.bad genes or something.lucky for them they lived in a 3 point or better area...
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2009, 05:12:12 PM »
Nice Elk

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #8 on: March 03, 2009, 07:15:32 PM »
Here's my biggest spike! Late archery 2006 in unit 121.
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #9 on: March 03, 2009, 08:42:00 PM »
This is how I know our state is the worst in the West.  There is a forum for who shot the largest spike!!!  BTW buckmaster if you grow that beard for Montana I will shave half of it off.   :chuckle:
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #10 on: March 03, 2009, 09:09:48 PM »
My two biggest 2001 and 2008 both over 22"
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #11 on: March 03, 2009, 09:31:52 PM »
Here is my one and only.
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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2009, 12:14:17 AM »
Here is my first and only spike from Idaho 2005.  Sorry, most of the pictures didn't turn out, so this is all I was left with...disposable camera.  I was recently married and my wife helped me haywire this Bull to the road 400 yards up hill.  This is a good way to test a marriage....

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
« Reply #13 on: March 04, 2009, 12:29:07 AM »
sorry for the real bad clearity, dont have a scanner so i had to take a picture of it. but i shot this when i was 12 and the game biologist said it was a 4 year old bull with real bad genetics

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Re: Biggest spike elk.
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