Your Idea of the perfect bull elk

[SkookumHntr]

-My favorite are the Royal 7x7, I have 2 on my wall, I hope one day to get a third! 

[huntnnw]

thats a tough one...Im equally torn over a huge clean typical or a heavy trashy non typical

[deerlick]

1x6 all day, until a 1x7 shows itself

[kentrek]

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

[carpsniperg2]

Lots of clean typical bulls. Give me a trashy heavy horned bull any day of the year!

[link]

Brutus. Giant framed typical, I'll give him a pass for being a 6x7. 62" wide. Pics are different years.

[Okanagan]

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.

[EnglishSetter]

I'm gonna say a freshly dead one hanging.

[Bullkllr]

I'm gonna say a freshly dead one hanging.

And previously uphill from the truck.

[chukarchaser]

AWESOME responses by everyone.  Sure makes a guy sit and think.  Merry Christmas everyone

[crabcreekhunter]

I like long mains, mass and symmetrical.  Seen a couple huge 5x5s that have looked really amazing to my eyes.  Idk why but consistent tine length is attractive to me.  It’s hard for me to get excited over a bull with really short tops and huge fronts or short fronts huge tops.  I guess that isn’t 100% true but on an ideal bull it would be pretty consistent through out. 

[Tinmaniac]

High on the shoulder and close to the road.