Roosevelt elk question

[dreamunelk]

Women's Prison?  CN we been hunting the wrong area! 

Actually there is a honor camp there.  Unfortunately only males.  Although I did pass a female employee that was pleasing to the eye.  If she would have stuck her thumb out I would have stopped.  Not sure what the dog she had on the leash would have thought.

[Coastal_native]

This young little 6x7 Clearwater bull is insulted by the suggestion that his family line has poor genetics and narrow short racks.   (Not one of mine, but I'm the current owner...would love to put a cape on it eventually)

[Westsidebowhunter]

Sounds like your seeing 2.5 year old bulls once they hit 3.5 and up they start to get the wow factor specially if they hit 5.5 on up. The dickey however the elk tend to get liver fluke bad from the swamp water they drink and it makes tips of the horns rotten but clearwater does not have that problem at all. go up there during end of september and start of october and you will see some nice bulls since its closed  to muzzleloading besides to tribal hunting

[CementFinisher]

seen a beautiful bull in the solduc in a cranberry field day after closing last season. damm animals.

[dreamunelk]

Liver fluke makes tips of horns rotten?
Not!  They have nothing to do with antler growth.  Again minerals and nutrition!  A few other reasons but, I am to lazy to look up at the moment.  Most likely answer for a weak or sponge (rotten) tip is for some reason growth was not completed.  And guess what the most common reason for this is................Nutrition.
Just about every ungulate has internal parasites.  Considered common in western WA.  Not a problem for them unless their immune system is down or wait for it......................nutritional distress!
Seen lots of bulls from the dickey and no rotten horns.

[Webfoot]

 Most of the elk up here are so inbred, diseased and sick from drinking swamp water that they have shrunk down to where they are midgets. A large bull will weigh somewhere south of 125# and his rack will typically be a five point with about a 12 inch spread, that is if his horns are not rotted off.
It is not hardly worth the drive to come up here and hunt anymore.
The only good thing to come of this is that they are getting easier to pack out of the deep holes.

Happy Hunting

John

[CementFinisher]

the bulls i have seen are healthy large bodied elk, i figured the antlers were due to age just wanted to check. i think the concensus is that they are Young

[THINK_N_ELK]

Most of the elk up here are so inbred, diseased and sick from drinking swamp water that they have shrunk down to where they are midgets. A large bull will weigh somewhere south of 125# and his rack will typically be a five point with about a 12 inch spread, that is if his horns are not rotted off.
It is not hardly worth the drive to come up here and hunt anymore.
The only good thing to come of this is that they are getting easier to pack out of the deep holes.

Happy Hunting

John

Just like there is no more ELK in the Blues, Right?   

[CementFinisher]

Most of the elk up here are so inbred, diseased and sick from drinking swamp water that they have shrunk down to where they are midgets. A large bull will weigh somewhere south of 125# and his rack will typically be a five point with about a 12 inch spread, that is if his horns are not rotted off.
It is not hardly worth the drive to come up here and hunt anymore.
The only good thing to come of this is that they are getting easier to pack out of the deep holes.

Happy Hunting

John

Just like there is no more ELK in the Blues, Right?   

[windygorge]

This young little 6x7 Clearwater bull is insulted by the suggestion that his family line has poor genetics and narrow short racks.   (Not one of mine, but I'm the current owner...would love to put a cape on it eventually)

typical rack you would see.  the result is poor nutrition