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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2009, 10:19:03 PM »
Break out the JV weld.  Your buddies would give you a hard time with all the stainless steel screws in the antlers.  :P
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #16 on: June 26, 2009, 07:04:52 AM »
The only Thing I would fix on a Busted up Bull is, Hamburger, Cube Steak, Sirloin Roast ECT.

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2009, 07:12:05 AM »
nice work charlie-you are the man
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2009, 07:46:14 AM »
I'm with Bone, I would only consider it if the breaks happened during a fall after the shot has been made!
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2009, 08:12:03 AM »
Somehow or another my Dad managed to shoot the horn off the biggest of his two caribou bulls the year me and my brother and him went to Quebec, not sure if he was excited or what the hell happened, strangest damn thing I even seen him do, shooting that horn off, right above the bez tines.  Anyway, he fixed it, and I don't blame him for fixing it.  But if your gonna fix just plain old broken tines that the bull got or buck got naturally, then why not add a drop tine, or split brows, or that 7th tine you always wanted on an elk.  For me if it broke during the hunt, shot off, broke during the fall, something like that then it's fine to fix.  If you don't like the way he looks when you shoot him, then don't shoot him.
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2009, 08:15:15 AM »
exactly.

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2009, 08:16:14 AM »
Bingo.
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #22 on: June 26, 2009, 08:19:00 AM »
Hmm, and if you have 5,000 into a hunt and all you see is every bull busted up and wait till the end to take a bull, I dont have a problem with it. Im sorry , but I would'nt NOT shoot a busted bull with money wraped up in a guided hunt. Dang right, I would be filling the freezer. As for the fix that is completely personal preferance.
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #23 on: June 26, 2009, 08:19:54 AM »
Somehow or another my Dad managed to shoot the horn off the biggest of his two caribou bulls the year me and my brother and him went to Quebec, not sure if he was excited or what the hell happened, strangest damn thing I even seen him do, shooting that horn off, right above the bez tines.  Anyway, he fixed it, and I don't blame him for fixing it.  But if your gonna fix just plain old broken tines that the bull got or buck got naturally, then why not add a drop tine, or split brows, or that 7th tine you always wanted on an elk.  For me if it broke during the hunt, shot off, broke during the fall, something like that then it's fine to fix.  If you don't like the way he looks when you shoot him, then don't shoot him.
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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #24 on: June 26, 2009, 08:34:54 AM »
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If you don't like the way he looks when you shoot him, then don't shoot him.
That is if your primary objective is horn. I like big animals but my like eating them better. In Az I saw 5 bulls in 7 days and took one on the last day. Some of you guys crack me up. Sorry I don't think by fixing a couple broken tines it makes you a liar, cheater, trying to get away with something etc. It means you want to preserve the memory of the hunt and you can do that any way you want.  :twocents:

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #25 on: June 26, 2009, 08:36:59 AM »
What does replacing tines that were not there on your hunt have to do with preserving the memory?

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #26 on: June 26, 2009, 08:40:44 AM »
Its like fake boobs, some people love them , some can do with out  :chuckle:

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #27 on: June 26, 2009, 08:44:36 AM »
I like fake and real  :chuckle:

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2009, 10:06:25 AM »
Its like fake boobs, some people love them , some can do with out  :chuckle:
Yeah, fake boobs may look great but the real things are much more fun to play with.  Wait, we were supposed to be talking about horny...uh, I mean horns...no wait...antlers, right?  Sorry, got a little off track there. :chuckle:

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Re: busted up bull - fix or not
« Reply #29 on: June 26, 2009, 10:16:30 AM »
A broken tine(s) I would leave the way I found it, a broken mainbeam I would consider fixing, particularly if I had seen the bull before it was broken. 
I have talked to a couple of guys that had a busted antler fixed, and they came right out and said it.  Both of them brought it up as a way of saying what a good job the taxi had done.

...so, what if you shot a bull with a busted mainbeam, and you found the antler later?  Would you have it reattached?
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