2011 Hunt-WA Horn Competition

[Band]

I'm putting up the pic by request but I haven't had it officially scored and probably won't bother.  It's currently at the taxidermist and when it's finished it's going up on the wall.  Opening day eastside archery "any bull" permit.

The original story and pics are here:

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=78111.0

[400out]

good request 

[Wea300mag]

I have the trophy back at my place now, waiting to engrave the next winners name and info. If you have an entry, or still need to get a score, get them in soon. The entry deadline is March 15th.

[Mark B]

332 4/8?? That's all??.. Man those pic's are really deceiving!!! either way that's a trophy in any category, Love seeing trashy bulls like that!!!

[timberghost72]

I guess I will throw this in. This is a modern firearm 7x8 (or 6x7 with eyeguards) public land mule deer. I had this scored by an official B&C scorer and he scored it as a typical mule deer . I thought that this was a non typical. Maybe someone can explain that to me. Anyways here are the pics, story that I originally posted and score sheets. I printed the score sheet for a non typical to see what it would score as that. I just used the official numbers from the measurer.
Scored as a typical it netted 164 3/8. Putting the numbers on the non typical score sheet it scores 199 3/8. It doesn't matter too much what it officially scores but I'd like to know why its considered a typical mule deer. What are your guys thoughts?? Of course I'd rather tell people it scored 199 3/8  It looks to me that all extra points are deducted from the gross score on a typical.


Well here is my opening day 7x8 (including eye guards) public land Mule deer. By far the biggest I have seen let alone shoot.  Opening morning started off at about 6:30 when I got out of my Jeep.  I decided to hunt a gated road that I was familiar with since I was hunting alone and usually have a partner to go with. 15 minutes into the hunt I spotted a white tail doe. Sweet I saw deer already (last year I didn’t see one buck all season).  That got me woke up and excited. On both sides of the skid road there was an old clear cut so after seeing the whitetail I just sat for a little while waiting to see if a buck would show up. After a while I started walking up this road looking ahead where it climbs up sharply. I noticed a large black stump on the left side of a power pole about 350 yards away earlier and at this time I noticed that the stump was now on the right side of the pole.  I got my nocks up and saw it moving slowly in and out of view. When it came into view it turned broad side and holy crap it’s a bear. A huge one at that.  Now I am shaking and can’t even see it with the nocks. I put my rifle up and that wasn’t going to happen. Shaking too much and also a little far with a small window of shooting lane I decide to get closer and try to get a shot off. Well after 20-30 minutes the bear kept eluding me behind a small rise. Then it moved down into some thick brush and didn’t come back out.  Being alone and not comfortable chasing it I decide to continue on. After several hours of nothing I headed back to camp.
Back at camp I tell my morning hunt story so my hunting partner (Black Ram) and I decide to try and find that bear on the afternoon hunt. It was big and I really wanted it. We go back up into the same area and got up to where I saw it. We cut left and side hilled it to where we had a big area to watch over. I picked a spot and my buddy went about 50 yards away up higher and over a little rise.  We sat for about 45-50 minutes with nothing going on. I stand up and then notice 3 people cutting across the clear cut below me from the right and 1 person from the left. I make myself visible so they see me and move on. They did. I take my rifle off my shoulder and am standing there looking down to the clear cut and all of a sudden hear a ton of crashing noise. I spin around to look and hear my buddies gunshot go off.  Right at that time this huge bruiser comes barreling over the hillside and is in mid air jumping over a log pile heading right at me at about 40 yards. HOLY CRAP! Is all I say. I raised my rifle and as soon as the buck landed he split to my right and he was moving.  After he changes directions I put my scope on him and fired a shot at about 30 yards. All I saw in my scope was red after the shot and it looked a little too far back. Crap I gut shot him. I rack another round in and get ready to fire and this guy piled up no farther than 25 yards from where I hit him. Buck down. We get up to him and he twitched once and was done. 
From hearing the crashing above me to when the buck was down was no more than 7-10 seconds at best. I have never gone through something like that before and was pumped up. My buddies shot had missed (lucky for me) and mine went in the right side bottom of rib cage and out the left shoulder.

[Mark B]

BEAUTIFUL BUCK!

[biggdogg]

I believe sci is the only one that goes with the true gross score, I also believe boone and crockett the non typical points have to match on both side or else they deduct them. I am not 100 % on the info i just privided. Well hell I'm probably 100% wrong

[Wea300mag]

"LAST CALL"

Entry deadline is tomorrow at midnight.

[adamR]

Oh man I forgot all about this!!!
Heres my 2011 Eastside Muzzleloader Bull

Gross 344 3/8
Net 338 2/8

Heres a link to the story
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=84427.msg1054262#msg1054262

[boneaddict]

Way to slip a beast in during the last second.

[buglebuster]

i was gonna post up my general westside muzzy bull till i saw yours, mines only 246 4/8 gross lol

[washingtonmuley]

Very nice buck!!

[adamR]

Is there a winner?

[boneaddict]

Congratulations guys!   This trophy is gorgeous and I can't wait for a crack at having it in my home someday.  Well done!

[Wea300mag]

Congrats to adamR for winning the 2011 Horn Competition. Here's how the scoring went down:

adamR: Muzzy, typ rocky mtn elk, 338.25 score versus a record 381.625 for a ratio of 0.886
mtndew: Rifle, non-typ rocky mtn elk, 359.75 score versus a record of 436.5 for a ratio of 0.824
Bench beast: archery, non-typ rocky mtn elk, 332.625 score versus a record of 421.875 for a ratio of 0.788
timberghost72: Rifle, typ mule deer, 164.375 score versus a record of 218.625 for a ratio of 0.752 (this one scores higher non-typ but the ratio is less since the record is 283.5)

Thanks to all that entered and congrats on your great animals.