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.

[Skyvalhunter]

I might add to my 6 x 6 it be taken on a Wyoming wilderness hunt 20 plus miles back and have the outfitter pack it out on horses.

[teanawayslayer]

I’ve put my hands on quite a few bulls from 370 to well over 400. Once you start getting to that age class of bull the mass and tine length does it for me every time. If it’s a typical fine if it has trash everywhere that fine too. It’s really to bad tags don’t come around very often any more and only getting worse in this state.