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Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« on: January 01, 2010, 11:03:43 AM »
Hey folks thought you might enjoy this.

 A customer of mine found theses sheds on his property and wanted them mounted. I'm not an official scorer but like most of you can get a pretty good idea of gross scores. I taped the left side at 179 and the right at 175 and change. Now realizing that they are sheds i estimated a 36in inside spread that I felt was pretty conservative. By my estimation that ranges this bulls score at about 390 and I would bet the spread was a little wider than I gave them  credit for but due to the conventional shed mounting system I was constraint by design.  :dunno:

These were on the ground about 7 months before Val found them so I know the colore looks a little dark. Most of the brow tines were missing (chewed) and allot of the left main beam. I had to color them a little darker than I would have liked to hide the repairs.




Anyway Enjoy

Jeff

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #1 on: January 01, 2010, 11:05:25 AM »
Nice work Kudu.Mark

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #2 on: January 01, 2010, 03:39:36 PM »
Whopper antlers!!!    :yike:

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2010, 04:47:27 PM »
Nice work as usual :tup:

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2010, 04:51:12 PM »
I think sheds get a 40" credit for elk
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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2010, 07:32:27 PM »
Huntnphool:
 Thanks and I think your right on the 40 inch credit I have mounted elk with spreads as high as 50 inches and as low as 30. When mounting sheds spread is a subjective issue. I start at 36 and see how they look and go from there.
With a 40 inch credit theses sheds are getting dangerously close to 400 gross  :yike:

Thanks

Jeff

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2010, 09:53:25 PM »
Nice mount Jeff.  I wish I can find sheds like that.  John


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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2010, 09:58:03 PM »
It looks good from this distance.   :o
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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #8 on: January 03, 2010, 10:58:10 PM »
Thanks guys:
I guess I could have included a few close up's .....I thought of leaving the antlers out of the pic but that would have been a  :bdid:
Customer already picked up the mount or I would put a few more pics on here.

Thanks for the business Val

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #9 on: January 03, 2010, 11:01:05 PM »
Actually on second thought If you click on the pic you can zoom in so that should do it

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #10 on: January 03, 2010, 11:09:29 PM »
good looking elk mount
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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2010, 11:14:53 PM »
I zoomed in like you said to do, didn't know you could do that.... :chuckle:

Your repairs looked great, nicely done.  :tup:
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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2010, 07:56:49 PM »
Thanks

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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2010, 07:57:16 PM »
its about time you got that mount posted on here, dang fine animals on the eastside! I am pumped everytime I see the work you and your fellow mounters turn out! If there was one thing I would love to learn, its hides and feathers and paying due's to the dead! Yall rock! I cant wait to see my mulie, antelope, and bear rug! JEFF RULES!!!! I drive all the way from darn LONG BEACH just to have him do my work.... cant wait man! Just hope you can repair the damage to my bear rug the cat did! I HATE CATS!!! WELL YOURS are pretty cool, even the mounted ones.... but only yours!
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Re: Val's 390 class Blue Mountain Bull Elk
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2010, 10:56:15 PM »
 :yike: What a monster! :drool:
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