Author Topic: Guess this old bull's score. (Read 8392 times)

hunterofelk · « **on:** March 10, 2012, 03:40:56 PM »

Don't know the exact history of this bull, but he has hung on the wall of Dan Bailey's Fly Shop in Livingston, Montana since I can remember. Mid 1970's. Someone there once told me the skull cap was split so the score can't be official. I'm just guessing he came out of Yellowstone Park one cold morning and was killed by someone forgotten now. When I was a kid I would wander into the shop and just stare at this old guy. Right next door was a taxidermist shop I spent some time in too.

I'm getting a little sentimental. Here is Main Street small town USA. We use to go hunting only twenty minutes from home.

huntbow · « **Reply #1 on:** March 10, 2012, 05:52:01 PM »

Oh, heck I'll give it a try. Not good at this but.............. Lots of length, 3rds are nice, pretty good width, only thing lacking is mass. Trouble is, I don't know what percentage the mass measurement gives to overall score. I'd say he is 340-350

buckfvr · « **Reply #2 on:** March 10, 2012, 06:10:00 PM »

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 10, 2012, 06:16:57 PM »

Yeah I would say somewhere between 350 & 360 ...

adamR · « **Reply #4 on:** March 10, 2012, 06:36:19 PM »

I'd say 355

coachcw · « **Reply #5 on:** March 10, 2012, 08:41:09 PM »

he's over 370

norsepeak · « **Reply #6 on:** March 10, 2012, 08:43:45 PM »

he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8

bearpaw · « **Reply #7 on:** March 10, 2012, 08:45:23 PM »

no way to tell in a photo, but he's real big....

great moose right next to him too...

I will guess 380

ridgefire · « **Reply #8 on:** March 10, 2012, 08:52:09 PM »

360ish.. would love to have grown up in an area like that and hopefully will live in a area like that someday. my dream is to someday to be able to sit on my front porch and watch a bull like that grazing in the front 40

the1rod · « **Reply #9 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:00:19 PM »

no idea about score, all i care about is where is that town and when can i move in?

ribka · « **Reply #10 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:10:36 PM »

Quote from: norsepeak on March 10, 2012, 08:43:45 PM

he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8

Are you frigging blind Norse?

At least 3 and 6/8's deduction. Jeesh!

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:11:18 PM »

I would see no problems with that bull hitting 360"

6x6in6 · « **Reply #12 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:31:09 PM »

John Bailey, Dan Bailey Fly Shop founder, harvested that bull in the late '60's in the Crazy Mountains, which is the mountain range in the back drop of the photo above.

400out · « **Reply #13 on:** March 11, 2012, 08:43:48 AM »

real good thirds

386

Is that one of buckluckys mounts

LivinTheDream · « **Reply #14 on:** March 11, 2012, 09:31:36 AM »

steen · « **Reply #15 on:** March 11, 2012, 09:32:25 AM »

349 Is there a prize for the winner?

deerslyr · « **Reply #16 on:** March 11, 2012, 09:43:43 AM »

I love livingston, cool little town. Ill have to stop in that fly shop next time im there. I was in big timber this weekend, another cool town.

hunterofelk · « **Reply #17 on:** March 11, 2012, 10:59:31 AM »

No prize, sorry. Just wanted to share. Unless someone from the store has scored it, I don't know. My guess is somewhere around 360. If the bull grew more mass, it might have made the book. Livingston is a windy town, but Big Timber takes the cake. Actually the mountains in the background are the Absaroka Mountains and the closest one is Livingston Peak. Climbed the peak
many times in my youth. Greatest view up there.

Ridge Roamer · « **Reply #18 on:** March 11, 2012, 11:27:14 AM »

I recognized that background right away, lived in Bozeman 76 - 88, love that area!

et1702 · « **Reply #19 on:** March 11, 2012, 11:50:37 AM »

I've been in that store many times. Did some work in Livingston between 2007 and 2009. Great place!

370

ET

6x6in6 · « **Reply #20 on:** March 11, 2012, 02:57:53 PM »

Quote from: hunterofelk on March 11, 2012, 10:59:31 AM

Actually the mountains in the background are the Absaroka Mountains and the closest one is Livingston Peak.

Oopps, yup, I was 180* off.

Kowsrule30 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 11, 2012, 03:58:38 PM »

360+ Great bull!!!

whitetailslyr · « **Reply #22 on:** March 11, 2012, 09:41:20 PM »

backcountry55 · « **Reply #23 on:** March 12, 2012, 12:15:09 AM »

im going to say right at 362

RadSav · « **Reply #24 on:** March 12, 2012, 02:59:59 AM »

Not much mass be lucky to get 28" per side, but equally impressive length and spread I guess at 48", average 15" per point. I'll guess at 375.

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #25 on:** March 12, 2012, 05:45:28 AM »

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