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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Cougeyes on October 09, 2008, 11:46:13 AM

Title: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: Cougeyes on October 09, 2008, 11:46:13 AM: What is a good "score" for a Shiras moose, or does anyone know where to access the WA state big game score book?
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: bowsandhose on October 09, 2008, 11:49:34 AM: NW big game records web site is in links but there records have not been updated. its updated every 3 or 4 years i think and they are due
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: blacktailer on October 09, 2008, 11:52:40 AM: 200 B & C would be a good score!!!! I wouldn't pass on 195 bulls looking for a 200 though. LOL
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: bow4elk on October 09, 2008, 11:55:22 AM: For Pope & Young, the minimums are:

Canada = 135"
Alaska-Yukon = 170"
Shiras' = 125"

Boone and Crockett have an on-line score sheet that's pretty easy to follow:

http://www.boone-crockett.org/bgRecords/bc_scoring_moose.asp?area=bgRecords&type=Moose
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: M_ray on October 09, 2008, 12:05:42 PM: Quote
200 B & C would be a good score!!!! I wouldn't pass on 195 bulls looking for a 200 though. LOL

Nothin like going right for the world record you'd be stupid to pass a 160 waiting IMO since the state record is 176... To answer the question a 140+ is a good Shiras.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: Cougeyes on October 09, 2008, 12:16:03 PM: Thanks, my dad green scored his at 160 +- a few points.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: M_ray on October 09, 2008, 12:18:08 PM: Thata a great bull! Tell him Congrats again he should be proud! :)
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2008, 12:32:32 PM: Well I have the book so I will post the top spots for each weapon in this state.

Lets go Archery first since our own Boneaddict holds the #2 spot.

Shiras Moose-Archery
Minimum score: 125 0/8

Final Score County Rank

157 1/8 Spokane 1
144 5/8 Pend Oreille 2

Shiras Moose-Black Powder
Minimum Score: 125 0/8

Final Score County Rank

128 1/8 Pend Oreille 1

Shiras Moose-Rifle
Minumum Score: 130 0/8

Final Score County Rank

176 2/8 Pend Oreille 1
168 2/8 Spokane 2
161 5/8 Pend Oreille 3
161 2/8 Pend Oreille 4
158 5/8 Pend Oreille 5
155 0/8 Pend Oreille 6
154 6/8 Pend Oreille 7
152 6/8 Pend Oreille 8
150 7/8 Pend Oreille 9
150 6/8 Pend Oreille 10
150 5/8 Pend Oreille 11
150 4/8 Stevens 12
149 6/8 Pend Oreille 13
147 6/8 Pend Oreille 14
146 2/8 Pend Oreille 15
144 7/8 Pend Oreille 16
144 6/8 Pend Oreille 17
143 1/8 Pend Oreille 18
141 4/8 Pend Oreille 19
140 6/8 Pend Oreille 20

So congratulations are in order for Paula and others for breaking the top 20 in Washington, I'm still chasing Doug down, think he will give me the location of Gletty? :chuckle:
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2008, 12:35:41 PM: Quote from: Cougeyes on October 09, 2008, 12:16:03 PM
Thanks, my dad green scored his at 160 +- a few points.

Well that would put him in the top 5
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: popeshawnpaul on October 09, 2008, 02:08:40 PM: Watch out, they shrink a lot and you get deductions. They can also be difficult to score. Palm length will be the most difficult thing to score on that moose and it may get confusing. Remember, you don't go down the palm and out the brow tine. You do it in a straight line parallel to the inside edge gover over the open area and straight out to the fork in the front brow. I do think that his moose will score well though. I scored it from the picture and guessed around 155+ depending on whether a few of the points will qualify as they need to be longer than wide. Post the numbers you measured so we can guess. Another note, a scorer told me they use blue masking tape and they actually wrap it half way up the thickness of the palm to account for the palm thickness. Then they measure the tape and get the length. Hope that makes sense. Do we have an official measurer for moose on this forum? I would love to have a tutorial thread with pictures. Maybe something we can work on? We are going to have these issues every year...

If you ask me, I think a 140"+ moose is a big moose. That's B&C. If you have a B&C animal, how can it be small? I think a 160+ is a whopper.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: Intruder on October 09, 2008, 02:25:50 PM: Quote from: bowsandhose on October 09, 2008, 11:49:34 AM
NW big game records web site is in links but there records have not been updated. its updated every 3 or 4 years i think and they are due

Looking at the scores listed above I believe they are old. My moose from last year I believe is now #5 at 159 3/8.

Cougeyes... your dad's bull looks to have really good overall spread and good paddle length. They may be a little narrow to scrore way up there. It's real hard to tell sometimes from photos regarding palm length because of the way they measure em. I'm guessing it'll gross pretty darn good but may lose some on the net depending on how the paddle length turns out. Dandy bull regardless. Definitely wouldn't pass that bugger up......
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: huntnphool on October 09, 2008, 02:31:18 PM: That could be Intruder, I got the book 2 years ago when I entered one of my deer. I have no idead how often they reprint it with new stats. Congrats on the bull though, sounds like a real pig.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: Cougeyes on October 09, 2008, 02:42:44 PM: His bull already shrunk an inch. He just followed the measurements off the B&C website. He wasn't entirely sure how to score it, and didn't use the correct tape measure. Some of the upper points he wasn't sure if they were long enough to measure. So it most likely is less than 160, he'll get it officially measured once the "drying" period is up...whenever that is. It'll make a cool mount though.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: billythekidrock on October 09, 2008, 04:15:39 PM: Quote
Looking at the scores listed above I believe they are old. My moose from last year I believe is now #5 at 159 3/8.

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That could be Intruder, I got the book 2 years ago when I entered one of my deer. I have no idead how often they reprint it with new stats.

The above scores are from the current book (2nd addition). Last I heard they were going to have a new one out soon. :dunno:
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: Ridgerunner on October 09, 2008, 04:22:21 PM: I think the recording period ends in the spring 09 so the book would be out after that. 08 is the last season to kill an animal to have it in the next edition of the book.
Title: Re: Shiras Moose Scores
Post by: billythekidrock on October 09, 2008, 04:28:41 PM: Quote from: Ridgerunner on October 09, 2008, 04:22:21 PM
I think the recording period ends in the spring 09 so the book would be out after that. 08 is the last season to kill an animal to have it in the next edition of the book.

Thanks.
I have sent a few messages in the last year to the NW BG site and never get reply.