Which Herd?

[Practical Approach]

Anyone want to guess where this bull resides?

[270Shooter]

nutsack?

[Elkslayer]

No guesses, but that looks like a pretty small body on that elk!

[NWWABOWHNTR]

blues

[chevysquid]

quinalt

[flinger]

Packwood

[grundy53]

St. Helens

[Huntboy]

St. Helens

[400out]

nutsack?
[/quote    Is that a new heard 

[Big10gauge]

North of Colville

[Greg30-06]

Quinault

[Holg3107]

i have to say nooksack, it looks almost identicle to the west side GOV. bull from this year, they almost have to be related or this was him last year, wayyyyyyy to similar

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,57577.0.html

[Firing Pin]

Collar is different on this bull, and doesn't look to have the mass of a Rosie.  I would guess off of Blewitt Pass.

[Practical Approach]

i have to say nooksack, it looks almost identicle to the west side GOV. bull from this year, they almost have to be related or this was him last year, wayyyyyyy to similar

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,57577.0.html

Great observation.  It is out of the Nooksack Herd. 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

up above Larson bridge?

[Practical Approach]

Downstream of Larson's bridge.

[NWWABOWHNTR]

area looked very familiar...  you aren't a biologist by any chance?

[Practical Approach]

I am migh I know you? 

[NWWABOWHNTR]

Not sure just trying to put 2 and 2 together.... the way you replied in the tribal thread made me wonder ... especially about the wetside tribes working with the state regarding counting elk and management.  If you bowhunt and were in the Taneum for early elk ....

[Practical Approach]

I confess I have spent a lot of time in the Nooksack.  Been working up there since 1999.  I have enjoyed seeing the success of the hunters in the Nooksack in the past few years. It is interesting to follow how many of the bulls that we collar get harvested each year.  There are some great bulls up there.

[180-GRAIN]

It would be hard to pass that bull up small body or not.

[WARHORSE]

my guess is in the freezer of the west side gov tag holder! what is the deal with the small body i noticed it in the gov tag pic as well

[DeerHarvester]

my guess is in the freezer of the west side gov tag holder! what is the deal with the small body i noticed it in the gov tag pic as well

I would have to agree, I though the same thing about the body size.  He must be using performance enhancers...?

[Practical Approach]

Picture was taken in late winter/early spring.  Caution - Actual elk looks larger through scope or binoculars. 

[boneaddict]

i was going to say Nooksack too just by how similiar it does look to the gov tag bull.  I also thought it might be a tribal collar.   I hope he lives to spread those genes.