About 20 years ago a good buddy of mine shot a spike on opening day of the archery season. Looked like a good shot, so he walked back to camp for breakfast. "It's kind of a funny looking spike" he told us. After breakfast we all went to go track his bull. We found it a few yards from where he shot it. It was easily the biggest bull elk any of us had ever seen. A huge, ancient bull that had apparently regressed "back to a spike". It had one antler that looked like a baseball bat bent in an L shape. The other side was a single, long, curved spike over 3 feet long. Somewhere I have a picture of PathfinderJR (who was about 7 or 8 ) standing next to the head and that antler is as long as he is tall. If you saw it's tracks, you would honestly think they were left by a moose. If I find the pics of it I'll come back on and post, but they're not on my work computer (I looked).
