What makes a big bull

[C-Money]

Bulls sure start looking extra good around 340". 300" start looking like a good bull. At this point, just about any branch antlered bull would look good to me. I'm not a fan of brow tines that bend down, just looks weird on a elk.

[Falcon]

Age, mass and character. Good time length and some extra points are icing on the cake. Score is a fun number to play with but I want the WOW factor. If your initial thought on a quality tag is more along the lines of “I should be shooting now”…enough said. A quality tag deserves a quality animal. Inches is only part of the equation. This was my one shot at a big coastal Rosie and until this year my only quality tag. Do they get better, absolutely…I’ve just never seen it in person and wasn't going to look.

Now will someone please show me a sheep picture I might find interesting.

 

Huckleberry

Great looking Roosevelt.   I agree that mass is the coolest thing to me.  I also love the crowning on your bull.  Spectacular.   
You said you want to see a sheep.    Here is my one and only from the Alaska Range way back in 07.  I was totally lucky to get this
Guy on opening day. 

[blackveltbowhunter]

    Age will make any bull "big". Genetics, food, location, winter stress, and a variety of other factors will determine if that big bull can turn the corner into something that could be defined as special. From there even more factors will play into the appeal of that bull to a given hunter.

   When I am discussing big bulls with folks in general and talk of  big bulls its any rocky over 300 and any rosie that is mature. My personal definition is a jet black antlered 8x9 with ivory tips, mass, and solid tine length on what may or may not have been short mains. A body like an angus bull on steroids.

[Karl Blanchard]

Age, mass and character. Good time length and some extra points are icing on the cake. Score is a fun number to play with but I want the WOW factor. If your initial thought on a quality tag is more along the lines of “I should be shooting now”…enough said. A quality tag deserves a quality animal. Inches is only part of the equation. This was my one shot at a big coastal Rosie and until this year my only quality tag. Do they get better, absolutely…I’ve just never seen it in person and wasn't going to look.

Now will someone please show me a sheep picture I might find interesting.

 

Huckleberry

Great looking Roosevelt.   I agree that mass is the coolest thing to me.  I also love the crowning on your bull.  Spectacular.   
You said you want to see a sheep.    Here is my one and only from the Alaska Range way back in 07.  I was totally lucky to get this
Guy on opening day.

Thank you Falcon! You finally made an elk thread interesting 😍

[Falcon]

Age, mass and character. Good time length and some extra points are icing on the cake. Score is a fun number to play with but I want the WOW factor. If your initial thought on a quality tag is more along the lines of “I should be shooting now”…enough said. A quality tag deserves a quality animal. Inches is only part of the equation. This was my one shot at a big coastal Rosie and until this year my only quality tag. Do they get better, absolutely…I’ve just never seen it in person and wasn't going to look.

Now will someone please show me a sheep picture I might find interesting.
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Great looking Roosevelt.   I agree that mass is the coolest thing to me.  I also love the crowning on your bull.  Spectacular.   
You said you want to see a sheep.    Here is my one and only from the Alaska Range way back in 07.  I was totally lucky to get this
Guy on opening day.

Thank you Falcon! You finally made an elk thread interesting 😍


Karl:  From one sheep hunter to another.........There's sheep, and than everthing else

[Caveman123]

Saw this as kid and it’s what lives in my head as a big bull. I believe he had a reputation and met his demise a few months after this picture.

[Buckjunkie]

This is what a big bull looks like.

[time2hunt]

Yes it is


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[TommyH]

That is a GREAT Bull.

[TommyH]

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[jackelope]

52” and 53” main beams. 399 and change. 

[2MANY]

Note how the tips of the 3rds are even with a line drawn between the tips of the eye gaurds and 4th point.

Redneck class dismissed.

[dagon]

Any bull that still needs to be packed out. 

[Mtnwalker]

Any bull that still needs to be packed out. 

They're all big when they're on your back 

[High Climber]

Any bull that still needs to be packed out. 

Truth!