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If you had an image in your mind of a perfect bull elk, what would it be

spike
3 (4%)
branched
1 (1.3%)
5x5
4 (5.3%)
6x6
40 (53.3%)
7x7
15 (20%)
non typical
12 (16%)

Total Members Voted: 75

Author Topic: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk  (Read 1095 times)

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2025, 04:27:24 PM »
-My favorite are the Royal 7x7, I have 2 on my wall, I hope one day to get a third!  :IBCOOL:
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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2025, 10:27:20 PM »
thats a tough one...Im equally torn over a huge clean typical or a heavy trashy non typical

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2025, 10:30:47 PM »
1x6 all day, until a 1x7 shows itself

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2025, 11:53:55 PM »
A clean rocky 6x6 north of 400
A trashy rossie north of 320

Idk if il ever have a tag with the potential for a clean 6 of the caliber but a guy can try

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #19 on: Yesterday at 12:54:39 AM »
Lots of clean typical bulls. Give me a trashy heavy horned bull any day of the year!
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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #20 on: Yesterday at 08:14:40 AM »
Brutus. Giant framed typical, I'll give him a pass for being a 6x7. 62" wide. Pics are different years.

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #21 on: Yesterday at 08:51:56 AM »
In my eyes, a huge symmetrical 5x5 makes the most perfect elk rack of all.  My grandson has a massive 5x5 Roosevelt well up in Pope & Young.  I watched a huge 5x5 in north western B.C. one time, one that got bigger with every tine on the way up till the 4/5 fork was astounding in how wide it was from tip to tip.  What a bull!  Much more impressive than 6x6 etc. bulls nearby.

I've seen some huge bulls in the parks of the Canadian Rockies, 6x6, 7x7 etc., and my family has 7 book bulls, but the single most dramatic rack I've seen in my life was a 5x6 near Banff.  It was enormous, and webbed in the upper forks to make a striated blade on both sides. It had a wave curve on both sides where the 5th tine should emerge but it was absent on one side, to make the long top tine the fifth.  What a bull!

Elk are magnificent, beautiful colors and dramatic antlers.




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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #22 on: Yesterday at 12:03:54 PM »
I'm gonna say a freshly dead one hanging.

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Re: Your Idea of the perfect bull elk
« Reply #23 on: Yesterday at 12:46:46 PM »
I'm gonna say a freshly dead one hanging.
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And previously uphill from the truck.
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