biggest "True" forked horn/ or "spike" you have seen or shot

[dvolmer]

I hate to see big fork horned mule deer in eastern Washington.  I have really enjoyed the 3 pt min rule here in EW.  If you hunted in the 70's and 80's you will remember hunting for days just trying to find a deer with any horns.  the 3 pt rule increased the bucks and doe to buck ratios which has made for better hunting overall.  There is always a problem though when you mess with mother nature.  these large dominant two point bucks cant be shot and pass there genes on and we end up with genetic problems with our deer.  I wish there was someway to cull these big bucks out of our herds here in EW.  Dont really have a solution for it but they need to be killed and not passing the substandard genes on.

[WA hunter14]

1 year of two point only 

[huntnphool]

I hate to see big fork horned mule deer in eastern Washington.  I have really enjoyed the 3 pt min rule here in EW.  If you hunted in the 70's and 80's you will remember hunting for days just trying to find a deer with any horns.  the 3 pt rule increased the bucks and doe to buck ratios which has made for better hunting overall.  There is always a problem though when you mess with mother nature.  these large dominant two point bucks cant be shot and pass there genes on and we end up with genetic problems with our deer.  I wish there was someway to cull these big bucks out of our herds here in EW.  Dont really have a solution for it but they need to be killed and not passing the substandard genes on.

A youth permit hunt for the entire month of November, two point only, points below the fork do not qualify as points.

[MLBowhunting]

Permits would be a good idea for hunters and the state. Also for the deer herds aswell

[combs338]

 A youth permit hunt for the entire month of November, two point only, points below the fork do not qualify as points.
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    I think this is a great idea...

[huntnphool]

 A bit of educating for the kid with the tag and the adult that would be with them but I think it would be doable. What kid wouldn't be happy with one of those big two's, plus they would be able to see all kinds of rut activity, which they likely don't get to see in the general season right now.

 I would like to see it tried for a season and see what happens, maybe 1-2 permits per unit to target these mature two's, it would be like a raffle tag for a kid and be a feather in the hat of WDFW for coming up with a additional youth hunt to get kids involved. I'd rather tag along on a hunt like that than hunt for myself in the joke of a general season we have right now.

[Pathfinder101]

This is PathfinderJR with an elk a buddy of mine killed last year.  Opening day archery, he cow called and this spike came running by, stopped broadside and he shot it.  Went back to camp for breakfast, came back a couple of hours later to track and find his "spike".
When he walked up to it he couldn't believe the size.  It was a huge, ancient bull (almost no teeth left, hooves like a moose) that had regressed back to being a spike.  Biggest bull any of us had ever seen.

[deerdog]

That is one awesome looking bull. Its a trophy in its own book.

[Ridgerunner]

Wow that spike is long a true trophy

[PlateauNDN]

   I would've loved to have seen that one up close   What a huge old spike.

[hunterofelk]

How was the meat on that old bull, Pathfinder 101?  I got a cow estimated age thirteen plus and we made salami of the whole thing.

[Pathfinder101]

How was the meat on that old bull, Pathfinder 101?  I got a cow estimated age thirteen plus and we made salami of the whole thing.

The meat was fantastic.  We took out the whole backstrap, cut it in two, seasoned it and BBQ'ed it all day on low heat like a prime rib.  Sliced it off in slabs about the size of a desert plate.  Best elk camp meal I have ever eaten.   

[Brushbuster]

Here's a MT 2 pt I got a few yrs back. He was w/ 10-12 does. I think 27" wide.

[wsmnut]

No pictures, but my son and I spotted a huge two point on a hillside in the Chiliwist Unit a couple years ago.  We watched that big brute for nearly 20 minutes trying to spot a third point. The deer had absolutely no eye guards. Nothing.  He was really big.  Likely 280 lbs or so.  Later we had a look at his tracks.  Longer than a 270 round and really deep.  To add insult to this, last season on the same hillside I spotted a forkhorn in exactly the same spot, with no eye guards.  Just a smaller version of the big two point.

[carpsniperg2]

That is one trophy spike!!!! 

Brushhunter my little bro popped a buck that looks twin to that one but he as a small 3 and eye gaurds. I would post him up but he has a 3 on one side that is like 1.2" long I think he was right at 25" wide