collapse

Advertisement


« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Down

Author Topic: 5X3 Elk??  (Read 5363 times)

Offline wastickslinger

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 2863
  • Location: pluto
5X3 Elk??
« on: April 29, 2008, 09:52:46 PM »
Finally found a few elk sheds on a short walk today. I never get the chance to look for elk horns so I get excited over even rag horns. These were laying about 10 feet apart. Bottom end looks the same but the top end does not. What do you think, same bull??? Or do I need to find the rag horn matches? I think same bull.
Logged

Offline archery288

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 2227
  • Location: Auburn
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2008, 09:54:36 PM »
I think it could very easily be the same bull if they were that close together!?  And on the 5 point his 2nd is very weak which would allow for more growth up top. No elk grows perfet antlers!
Logged

Offline jackelope

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+29)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50179
  • Location: Duvall, WA
  • Groups: jackelope
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2008, 09:54:58 PM »
same out-of-whack bull. a non-matched matched set.
 :chuckle:
Logged
:fire.:

" In today's instant gratification society, more and more pressure revolves around success and the measurement of one's prowess as a hunter by inches on a score chart or field photos produced on social media. Don't fall into the trap. Hunting is-and always will be- about the hunt, the adventure, the views, and time spent with close friends and family. " Ryan Hatfield

My posts, opinions and statements do not represent those of this forum

Offline Michelle_Nelson

  • Trade Count: (-1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Apr 2007
  • Posts: 7974
  • Location: Rochester, Washington
  • Bring on the Bears!
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2008, 10:00:03 PM »
Nice. . . .I'd have been more that estatic to find em.
Logged

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50475
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2008, 10:03:33 PM »
same bull, no doubt.
Logged

Offline mkcj

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jul 2007
  • Posts: 1945
  • Location: Seatac/Winthrop,Wash
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2008, 10:08:00 PM »
I think there matched
Logged

Offline muledude

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 92
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2008, 10:10:24 PM »
nice charactar....
Logged

Offline bow4elk

  • Pacific Northwest Bowhunting
  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 3413
  • Location: Olympia, WA
  • Contact me at: tom@pnwbowhunting.com
    • https://www.facebook.com/pacific.northwest.bowhunting/
    • Pacific Northwest Bowhunting
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2008, 10:17:03 PM »
check the shape of the bases...the best way to know for sure.  Also, texture, color help too.
Logged
Official Measurer: Pope and Young Club, NW Big Game Inc., National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, Oregon Shed Hunters
First Hunt Foundation mentor
Washington State R3 Coordinator

Pacific Northwest Bowhunting http://www.pnwbowhunting.com

Offline wastickslinger

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 2863
  • Location: pluto
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2008, 10:19:03 PM »
I figured it was. I also saw 3 rag horns still packing. Shouldn't they be almost all dropped by now? Excuse my ignorance, like I said I have been a deer horn hunter for ever. Just started looking for elk this year a few times.
Logged

Offline jackelope

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+29)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 50179
  • Location: Duvall, WA
  • Groups: jackelope
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2008, 10:28:02 PM »
the 30-40 elk i saw last weekend were all dropped, but one of the other guys on here who saw elk the week before in the same area were still packing.
Logged
:fire.:

" In today's instant gratification society, more and more pressure revolves around success and the measurement of one's prowess as a hunter by inches on a score chart or field photos produced on social media. Don't fall into the trap. Hunting is-and always will be- about the hunt, the adventure, the views, and time spent with close friends and family. " Ryan Hatfield

My posts, opinions and statements do not represent those of this forum

Offline Coasthunterjay

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 1749
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2008, 12:11:46 AM »
nice horns man, deffinantly the same animals......
Logged

Offline MuleySniper

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2007
  • Posts: 4622
  • Location: WA
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2008, 08:22:01 AM »
Quote from: wastickslinger on April 29, 2008, 10:19:03 PM
I figured it was. I also saw 3 rag horns still packing. Shouldn't they be almost all dropped by now? Excuse my ignorance, like I said I have been a deer horn hunter for ever. Just started looking for elk this year a few times.

Your excused. Nice find  you dog!
MS
Logged
"Gun control is for wimps and commies. Listen, let's get one thing straight. Guns don't kill people. I do. "
Earl Ramsey

Offline muledude

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 92
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2008, 08:55:13 PM »
Im no biologist but the rags tend to hang on to them longer, Im guessing the weight of the horns on the bigger bulls helps them drop sooner, aswell as they need more time to grown there new hardware??I've also read that the poorer there health the longer they will keep them???I was up towards Randle this last weekend and saw two fairly heavy" Better than average" 5's. One still had a right and the other had a left????
Logged

Offline cascademountainhunter

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: May 2008
  • Posts: 777
  • Location: Cascade Mountains
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2008, 05:43:43 PM »
i would shoot at it.
Logged

Offline M_ray

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 4598
  • Location: I'm takin the 5th on this one
Re: 5X3 Elk??
« Reply #14 on: May 22, 2008, 07:04:46 PM »
I'd say same Bull ... It has the same characteristics on each side if you look close.
Logged
DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed here are not those of HW Management, Admins, Mods or Myself... But they are the opinions of Elvis who has revealed them to me through the medium of my pet hamster, Lee Harvey Oswald...


MB

Growing old is mandatory ... Growing up is optional!
Pages: [1] 2  All   Go Up
« previous next »
 


* Advertisement

Quick Links

* Recent Topics

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal