Experience with Toutle Bull hunt?

[HoofsandWings]

By big elk, are you scoring as you would Roosevelt Elk? I was looking at the B&C page and they have a scoring method for Rocky Mtn and another for Roosevelt. The antlers for Roosevelt are straighter and the spread is much less than Rocky Mtn elk. For the big spread, you need to go east of the Cascades.

[funkster]

This is were it get's tricky! From what I understand and please correct me if I am wrong,technically they would not be true roosevelts in the toutle even though they are. According to the book anything east of I-5 is not consider a true Roosevelt. I see the point you are making though,Roosevelt's only have to score 220 to get in the books.

[bowhunterty]

You are corect.

[HoofsandWings]

That is how I see it. Roosevelts may have moved east of I-5 when no one was looking.
I guess we look for any webbing in the antlers. One indication they are Roosevelts.

[WDFW Hates ME!!!]

Yeah it sucks, but they had to draw the line somewhere. And I-5 was it.

By no means did i ever say there were no big bulls in toulte but it is by no means a trophy hunt. Congrats on the draw, and good luck on your hunt. Just don't rule out that spike on the last day...

[Bigshooter]

I have seen a few bulls come out of the Toutle that were over 300 b&c.  But they are very rare.  I have never personally seen a bull that was even close to 300 while hunting the toutle or scouting the toutle.  But I have seen a couple 280 bulls while scouting.  For a unit that gives out a lot of tags it does not produce a lot of big bulls.  Shoot the first 6x6 you see or you will be eating spike this winter.