collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Archery 6x6  (Read 8354 times)

Offline HornHoarder

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 950
Archery 6x6
« on: September 28, 2011, 09:58:28 PM »
I found a little down time, so I thought I'd post a pic of the bull my buddy Jason got this year on our annual elk hunt. I didn't kill it, but did help on the recovery. Shot on opening day in western WA.

Offline kglacken

  • Co-Host at ZG Outdoors
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 1038
  • Location: Skookumchuck
    • ZG Outdoors
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2011, 10:02:17 PM »
If that truely is a Wetside bull I am impressed!

Offline HornHoarder

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 950
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2011, 10:06:39 PM »
Sure is... just look at those dark antlers ;)

Offline BoomWhop

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2008
  • Posts: 902
  • Location: Snohomish
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2011, 10:07:50 PM »
WOW   :yike: :yike:
If your gonna be Dumb you better be Tough

Offline hunterrcc

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 486
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2011, 11:47:51 PM »
nice bull but looks like your on the East side!!! what unit was it on the west side My guess would be near 578 West Klic!

Offline Kola16

  • <><
  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Aug 2011
  • Posts: 3392
  • Location: Roy
  • Go Cougs!
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2011, 11:50:02 PM »
Maybe I should try elk hunting  :drool:  :chuckle:
If guns kill people...then pencils misspell words, cars make people drive drunk, and spoons made Rosie O'Donnell fat!

"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy!"   -Billy Currington

Offline bowhuntersd

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 253
  • Location: Castle Rock
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2011, 07:40:03 AM »
Great Bull, But that looks like no ROSIE I've seen.... Not even in the Olympic Peninsula. ???????? :dunno:
A bad day in the woods is better than a good day at work.

Offline bucklucky

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 9541
  • Location: Skookumchuck Wa.
    • Charlie Smith
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #7 on: September 29, 2011, 07:49:43 AM »
Very Nice!

Offline Huntboy

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+7)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2009
  • Posts: 1740
  • Location: Spanaway, Wa
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2011, 08:09:53 AM »
Sweet.
SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM.

Offline pianoman9701

  • Mushroom Man
  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 44816
  • Location: Vancouver USA
  • WWC, NRA Life, WFW, NAGR, RMEF, WSB, NMLS #2014743
    • www.facebook.com/johnwallacemortgage
    • John Wallace Mortgage
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #9 on: September 29, 2011, 08:26:49 AM »
Beautiful bull.
"Restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens based on the actions of criminals and madmen will have no positive effect on the future acts of criminals and madmen. It will only serve to reduce individual rights and the very security of our republic." - Pianoman https://linktr.ee/johnlwallace https://valoaneducator.tv/johnwallace-2014743

Offline shanevg

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2008
  • Posts: 2398
  • Location: L-Town (Lynden), WA
    • https://www.facebook.com/shanevg
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2011, 08:32:45 AM »
Beautiful elk!  Congrats to your buddy!

Offline sirmissalot

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 3070
  • Location: Shelton, WA
    • chadpburgess@faceboo​k.com
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #11 on: September 29, 2011, 08:41:39 AM »
Thats a dandy.

Sure doesn't look like a westside bull. How did he get the skull so clean, so fast? Looks like its already been whitened

Offline Austrian Hunter

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2008
  • Posts: 4491
  • Location: Yakima, WA
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #12 on: September 29, 2011, 08:49:40 AM »
Nice Bull!!  I love the area in the background as well!  :tup:

Offline Devinshoe

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2010
  • Posts: 633
  • Location: North East Washington
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #13 on: September 29, 2011, 12:02:29 PM »
Dang nice bull!

Offline Skyvalhunter

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 16010
  • Location: Sky valley/Methow
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2011, 12:04:46 PM »
Congrats on a nice elk. Got to love the hunting attire.
The only man who never makes a mistake, is the man who never does anything!!
The further one goes into the wilderness, the greater the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Online buglebuster

  • ELKOHOLIC
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 3619
  • Location: yakima
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #15 on: September 29, 2011, 12:34:49 PM »
Just because its westside doesn't mean its a rosie, lots of border units, nice bull!
Great Bull, But that looks like no ROSIE I've seen.... Not even in the Olympic Peninsula. ???????? :dunno:

Offline sirmissalot

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 3070
  • Location: Shelton, WA
    • chadpburgess@faceboo​k.com
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #16 on: September 29, 2011, 02:18:43 PM »
Just because its westside doesn't mean its a rosie, lots of border units, nice bull!
Great Bull, But that looks like no ROSIE I've seen.... Not even in the Olympic Peninsula. ???????? :dunno:

It is most definitely not a rosie. We can probably all agree on that. Even then, most westside bulls have alders to rub on... giving them the reddish and/or blackish horns. Still a great fricken bull

Offline crazyantler

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: Jun 2010
  • Posts: 173
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #17 on: September 29, 2011, 02:29:19 PM »
Nice elk.  I think it lived on the east side and commuted to the west side were he was shot.

Offline NWWABOWHNTR

  • Washington For Wildlife
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2008
  • Posts: 2057
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #18 on: September 29, 2011, 02:32:55 PM »
my bet is a bull taken very close to the pacific crest trail.... the elk go back and forth all the time... from an east GMU to the west.... I have chased elk from the Taneum side and watched them run right up and over to the west side... Just because it is on the wet side doesn't make it a rosie...
"Don't argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

Offline jackmaster

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Old Salt
  • ******
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 7011
  • Location: graham
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #19 on: September 29, 2011, 02:33:01 PM »
i live in graham and i constantly have some huge bulls in my back yard and all their antlers are dark some light but the 2 biggest ones which are absolute pigs are as dark as night
my grandpa always said "if it aint broke dont fix it"

Offline pianoman9701

  • Mushroom Man
  • Business Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2011
  • Posts: 44816
  • Location: Vancouver USA
  • WWC, NRA Life, WFW, NAGR, RMEF, WSB, NMLS #2014743
    • www.facebook.com/johnwallacemortgage
    • John Wallace Mortgage
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #20 on: September 29, 2011, 03:31:52 PM »
That comes from rubbing them on the tires of a jeep he rolled with 'em.
"Restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens based on the actions of criminals and madmen will have no positive effect on the future acts of criminals and madmen. It will only serve to reduce individual rights and the very security of our republic." - Pianoman https://linktr.ee/johnlwallace https://valoaneducator.tv/johnwallace-2014743

Offline deerhunter_98520

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+4)
  • Old Salt
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2009
  • Posts: 8928
  • Location: aberdeen, wa
  • Chief Executive Head Anarchist of YKWTSASFFRO
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #21 on: September 29, 2011, 06:28:15 PM »
the timber company sure did  a great job thinin that timber...wish weyehauser would do that on the coast..it would be much easier finding animals  :chuckle:...all jokes aside thats a great bull no matter where it was shot! congrats to the hunter!
Official hunt-wa bigfoot field researcher!

Offline HornHoarder

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jan 2011
  • Posts: 950
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #22 on: September 29, 2011, 07:57:07 PM »
Most of you guys are real close to accurate. Not a true Roosevelt. I believe it would be classified as a cascade roosevelt. And I do the european mounts myself. Let me post one more of that bull and also the whitetail he tagged this year.

Offline deerslyr

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 1979
  • Location: Clyde Park MT via Roy WA
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #23 on: September 29, 2011, 08:17:07 PM »
Most of bulls taken on the westide arent rosies

Online Jellymon

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+6)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Jun 2009
  • Posts: 1519
  • Location: Spanaway
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #24 on: September 29, 2011, 08:21:11 PM »
Great Bull, But that looks like no ROSIE I've seen.... Not even in the Olympic Peninsula. ???????? :dunno:

Where did he say it was a Rosie? Great bull!

Offline kglacken

  • Co-Host at ZG Outdoors
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2010
  • Posts: 1038
  • Location: Skookumchuck
    • ZG Outdoors
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #25 on: September 29, 2011, 10:18:58 PM »
Most of bulls taken on the westide arent rosies
:dunno:

Offline johnsc6

  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Scout
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jul 2007
  • Posts: 297
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2011, 08:23:49 AM »
 :yeah:

Offline deerslyr

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 1979
  • Location: Clyde Park MT via Roy WA
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2011, 10:03:02 AM »
Rockies were transplanted on the west side in the 1920s I believe. Most of the elk east of I-5 have rocky blood in them.

Offline Rooster1981

  • R.K.
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2011
  • Posts: 683
  • Location: Mason County
    • Roosters Kennel
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2011, 10:21:03 AM »
Rockies were transplanted on the west side in the 1920s I believe. Most of the elk east of I-5 have rocky blood in them.

I would agee with that. :twocents:
Hunting hounds since 1993

Offline vaz,,66

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Hunter
  • ***
  • Join Date: May 2011
  • Posts: 170
  • Location: King county
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2011, 10:55:47 AM »
Nice bull for sure congrats.

Offline Snapshot

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2007
  • Posts: 721
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #30 on: September 30, 2011, 02:36:50 PM »
Thats a dandy.

How did he get the skull so clean, so fast? Looks like its already been whitened

How to...cut off all the flesh you can with a knife, then submerge it in boiling water (only the skull; not the antlers!) with a little soap (some say) until the rest of the flesh can be picked off (tedious work; be careful in the nasal passages because it is delicate), then submerge it in peroxide (or bleach?) until it is white to your liking (again not the antlers!). It only takes a couple of days.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2011, 03:11:19 PM by Snapshot »
I'd just like to remind everybody that it's about the hunting, not just the killing. In other words, it's about the total experience, the sport itself and the challenge involved. Bowhunting, done right, is a justifiable and honorable pursuit. Done for the wrong reasons, simply chalking up kills and seeking personal glory, it's taking away rather than giving back to a principled way of life that has to be experienced to be understood. G.StCharles

Offline sirmissalot

  • Past Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2011
  • Posts: 3070
  • Location: Shelton, WA
    • chadpburgess@faceboo​k.com
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #31 on: September 30, 2011, 02:41:28 PM »
Thats a dandy.

How did he get the skull so clean, so fast? Looks like its already been whitened

How to...cut off all the flesh you can with a knife, then submerge it in boiling water (only the skull; not the antlers!) with a little soap (if you like) until the rest of the flesh can be picked off (tedious work; be careful in the nasal passages because it is delicate), then submerge it in peroxide or bleach until it is white to your liking (again not the antlers!). It only takes a couple of days.

I do a lot of skull whitening (not bleaching). If you kill an animal anytime in the near future, please follow the steps above. I'd like to see the damage the boiling water and bleach will do to the skull. Thats if you kill an animal. Big IF.

Offline Snapshot

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Longhunter
  • *****
  • Join Date: Feb 2007
  • Posts: 721
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #32 on: September 30, 2011, 03:10:05 PM »
Personally I have only used boiling water and then peroxide (I think I've heard others say they've used bleach and some say they put a little soap in the water; maybe I'm not remembering those two things correctly).

I have several skulls done exactly this way (and I killed the animals; what do you mean Big IF?). The boiling and the peroxide did no damage whatsoever...
I'd just like to remind everybody that it's about the hunting, not just the killing. In other words, it's about the total experience, the sport itself and the challenge involved. Bowhunting, done right, is a justifiable and honorable pursuit. Done for the wrong reasons, simply chalking up kills and seeking personal glory, it's taking away rather than giving back to a principled way of life that has to be experienced to be understood. G.StCharles

Offline elkonastick

  • Non-Hunting Topics
  • Trade Count: (+1)
  • Tracker
  • **
  • Join Date: Apr 2011
  • Posts: 76
  • Location: ellensburg
Re: Archery 6x6
« Reply #33 on: September 30, 2011, 10:39:42 PM »
i use powdered ph increaser like you would put in your hot tub when i boil. it makes the meat turn rubbery and either fall right off or fairly easy to pull off. after its clean i paint the skull with a paste mixture of powdered bleach and hydrogen peroxide while its still wet from boiling. chain it to something and let it dry in direct sunlight for a half a day and brush it off. the ph increaser makes a nasty chemical/meat steam you dont wanna breathe but it works awesome and none of the boiling or chemicals have ever damaged any of my skulls, just keep a close eye on it and dont boil it any longer than you need to or you might. anyways that is an awesome bull and a nice buck too! and good job on the euro mounts

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

AUCTION: SE Idaho DIY Deer or Deer/Elk Hunt by WoolyRunner
[Today at 07:36:44 PM]


Son drawn - Silver Dollar Youth Any Elk - Help? by VickGar
[Today at 04:54:03 PM]


Nevada bull hunt 2025 by Karl Blanchard
[Today at 03:20:09 PM]


Accura MR-X 45 load development by Karl Blanchard
[Today at 01:32:20 PM]


I'm Going To Need Karl To Come up With That 290 Muley Sunscreen Bug Spray Combo by highside74
[Today at 01:27:51 PM]


Toutle Quality Bull - Rifle by lonedave
[Today at 12:58:20 PM]


49 Degrees North Early Bull Moose by washingtonmuley
[Today at 12:00:55 PM]


MA 6 EAST fishing report? by washingtonmuley
[Today at 11:56:01 AM]


Kings by Gentrys
[Today at 11:05:40 AM]


2025 Crab! by ghosthunter
[Today at 09:43:49 AM]


Survey in ? by hdshot
[Today at 09:20:27 AM]


Bear behavior by brew
[Today at 08:40:20 AM]


Bearpaw Outfitters Annual July 4th Hunt Sale by bearpaw
[Today at 07:57:12 AM]


A lonely Job... by Loup Loup
[Today at 07:47:41 AM]


2025 Montana alternate list by bear
[Today at 06:06:48 AM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2025, SimplePortal