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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #30 on: December 06, 2009, 04:08:40 PM »
a rag horn to me is a small branch antler bull that is either imature or of poor genetics, makes no difference the point count :dunno:

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #31 on: December 06, 2009, 04:10:05 PM »
I would post, but I don't have permission


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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #32 on: December 06, 2009, 05:02:38 PM »
 :chuckle:  Thats not what I'd call a raghorn. LOL

This however is borderline, but I would consider him a raghorn.  Probably a 3.5 year old bull

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #33 on: December 06, 2009, 05:03:58 PM »
This would be another example.....

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #34 on: December 06, 2009, 05:08:21 PM »
I would agree with on those pictures. Thinned horned and short.

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #35 on: December 06, 2009, 05:34:20 PM »
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I have seen some huge 5pts that I wouldnt call raghorns.
I took a 5x5 a few years ago that most would have also taken. on the other hand I've gotten a 5x6 a few years ago that anyone would call a raghorn, tasted good though!
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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #36 on: December 06, 2009, 07:01:28 PM »
I believe it depends on the person hunting the animal and what area?  Someone that has hunted the Valleys of Western Washington may consider a nice 5x5 a nice herd bull.  But on the other hand someone hunting the blues would consider this same bull a raghorn and pass him up. I guess its like politics and religion everyone has their own opinion and their own standards.  Just my  :twocents:

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #37 on: December 06, 2009, 07:18:15 PM »
i consider a rag horn bull to be a bull scoring under 280. just my opinion. i think some bulls go there whole life being a rag horn. all in genetics.

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #38 on: December 06, 2009, 07:30:47 PM »
A lot of hunters on the west side kill some nice bulls that don't go 280 and I wouldn't call them raghorns. They are very heavy 5x5's in the 260+  range.

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #39 on: December 06, 2009, 07:38:08 PM »
alot of bulls dont get a chance to grow up.  The Eastside is producing some giants now with the permit only system which i think is one thing the game dept is doing right :chuckle: I also think any bull smaller then a 5pt is a raghorn in my mind but everyone is diff
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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #40 on: December 06, 2009, 08:57:14 PM »
Anything below 300 inches. :archery_smiley:

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #41 on: December 07, 2009, 07:59:57 AM »
I always considered symmetry and appearance more than size when calling a bull a raghorn.  A good looking small 4x4 or 5x5 was not called a raghorn in our camps just an immature bull, but a nasty uneven 2x3, 3x3, or  even larger with no symmetry was a raghorn.

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #42 on: December 07, 2009, 11:33:18 AM »
Anything between a spike and a 5x5.

If he's got brow tines and he is less than a 5x5, he's a raghorn to me.  I wold have checked 3x3 and 4x4 if we had been able to choose more than one option in the poll.
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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #43 on: December 07, 2009, 01:32:40 PM »
Regardless of points I think it is more to do with mass than anything.  The 5 point in the picture was not a raghorn he was pretty heavy and a trophy  for most units. 

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Re: What is your definition of a Raghorn?
« Reply #44 on: December 08, 2009, 06:59:13 AM »
any main frame 6x6 thats less than 280 west and 300 east .

 


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