Is this a legal spike? legal 3x

[ICEMAN]

Nice photoshop job!

You guys are all wrong!

This is my cow to spike conversion kit. 

[kirkl]

Billy, yes that would qualify as long as they dont branch above the ears.

[jackelope]

what about this bull...this is a wa bull from an any bull unit...


i blacked out his face cuz i pirated the pic from another site.

[GoldTip]

Jackelope, yep near as I can tell that bull would qualify as a spike in a spike only unit.  I actually saw a bull getting checked on year down in the blues that was probably a 320-330 bull, it was being checked by the game warden.  It was a nice 6 point on the one side and the other side he had broken the main beam between the eyeguard and second tine.  So there was maybe 5" of main beam above the eyeguard on the broken tine.  The warden considered that bull a legal spike.  Now I'd be damn hesitant to shoot that bull, but the warden called it legal.

[bearhunter59]

actually the second set of horns is my imaginary elk.  The horn on the left qualifies as a spike in a spike only unit, and the horn on the right qualifies as a 3-point in a 3-point min. unit.  That sonofagun was dead no matter where he stepped...

[bearhunter59]

jacks...picture is a 2x4 that qualifies in either unit.  The left one forks below the ear, and the rightside browtine is longer than an inch.  And "below the ear" means below the tip of the ear, with the ear straight UP, not out to the side...

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

I am pretty sure in the regs it says a fork on the upper half of the main beam... Not above the ear.

[bearhunter59]

 My earlier quote was directly from the game regs.  "...above the ears."  And I just went back and checked my old regs, and it looks like the definition changed in 2006.  2005 regs say "upper half", but 2006 say "above the ear."
(I have 10 years worth of huntin and fishin regs...always interesting to go back and check how something used to be regulated or how much licenses cost years ago...)