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What is your idea of a perfect elk?

6x6
42 (23.9%)
7x7
38 (21.6%)
anything with antlers
15 (8.5%)
anything that fits on the barbecue
43 (24.4%)
anything mature
38 (21.6%)

Total Members Voted: 176

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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2019, 08:40:31 AM »
A dead elk is a good elk.

Actually to go with the topic.  The perfect elk is a dead elk.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #16 on: December 16, 2019, 09:12:45 AM »
6x6 is what I imagine ....  That bull is amazing
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #17 on: December 16, 2019, 10:35:12 AM »
Beautiful bull.  IMO the purest beauty for an elk rack is a 5x5. 

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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #18 on: December 16, 2019, 06:49:25 PM »
That is a perfect bull imo. I love big symmetrical 6x6 bulls the most.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #19 on: December 16, 2019, 06:55:54 PM »
beautiful bull for sure...but perfection sign me up for dark horns and a wider spread ivory tipped .  no disrespect
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #20 on: December 16, 2019, 07:15:33 PM »
No wrong answers here, none taken.   
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #21 on: December 16, 2019, 07:59:25 PM »
I'll take thickness and width, of course long tines and beams.  But I've seen many different perfect elk, one of my favorites was a big 5 point, he wasn't getting any bigger and he was magical.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #22 on: December 16, 2019, 08:08:25 PM »
Big 5s are super cool. Anything mature got my vote :tup:
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2019, 10:12:17 PM »
I took my son out last spring on his 5th birthday to do some scouting, and we saw a cow elk bedded down with a new born calf.  We watched them for the better part of the morning from a neighboring ridge.  I told my son that calf was going to grow up to be the "Bull of the Woods".  He thought that was pretty cool.

That was about the most perfect elk I've witnessed.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #24 on: December 20, 2019, 12:50:55 AM »
year and a half old cow 50 yards above the road is the perfect elk.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #25 on: December 20, 2019, 07:42:57 AM »
I voted anything with antlers, but my perfect bull would be a Rosie that was crowned and had a bunch of trashy stuff going on.
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #26 on: December 20, 2019, 08:07:46 AM »
Anything legal in my book. Still trying to get my first. Missed one this year  :bash:
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Re: The Perfect elk
« Reply #27 on: December 24, 2019, 06:11:41 AM »
I love Mass ! age class closest thing i could choose was a 7x7
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