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Offline hunterofelk

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Guess this old bull's score.
« 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.



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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« 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 ???

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2012, 06:10:00 PM »
360

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2012, 06:16:57 PM »
Yeah I would say somewhere between 350 & 360 ...

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2012, 06:36:19 PM »
I'd say 355

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2012, 08:41:09 PM »
he's over 370

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #6 on: March 10, 2012, 08:43:45 PM »
he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8 :tup:

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #7 on: March 10, 2012, 08:45:23 PM »
no way to tell in a photo, but he's real big....  :tup:

great moose right next to him too...  :tup:

I will guess 380
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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« 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

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« 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?

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2012, 09:10:36 PM »
he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8 :tup:


Are you frigging blind Norse?

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

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2012, 09:11:18 PM »
I would see no problems with that bull hitting 360"
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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« 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.

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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2012, 08:43:48 AM »
real good thirds  :drool: 386



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Re: Guess this old bull's score.
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2012, 09:31:36 AM »
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