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Title: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on November 21, 2016, 08:52:34 AM
A friend from work sent me this as she knows I'm an elk hunter.  Quite the beast of a wapiti!  Posted for your viewing enjoyment  :rolleyes:

https://www.facebook.com/shedheads1/photos/a.304794736249108.72700.304699662925282/1034728049922436/?type=3&theater
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Widgeondeke on November 21, 2016, 08:55:34 AM
that is a big un, reading most comments. it appears to be a farm bull  :dunno:
don't know why he long armed it by sitting back a 1/4 mile though, that thing is huge

Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: notellumcreek on November 21, 2016, 08:57:26 AM
Awesome bull but wtf dude grab those antlers and smile. the way the gun is sitting to prop the antlers up isn't making sense to me.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Timberstalker on November 21, 2016, 09:17:10 AM
His thirds are weak.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Stein on November 21, 2016, 09:26:33 AM
Awesome bull but wtf dude grab those antlers and smile. the way the gun is sitting to prop the antlers up isn't making sense to me.

He's kneeling about 8' behind the bull, pretty much par for the course for a guy posting pics of his farm bull.  If you look closely, you can see marks from where the collar was rubbing it's neck.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: jackelope on November 21, 2016, 09:27:34 AM
It's a farm animal. The picure has been floating around a while now. At least a couple years.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: TheHunt on November 21, 2016, 10:22:26 AM
Yep, farm raised... 
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: cbond3318 on November 21, 2016, 10:28:59 AM
Hahhaha, best comment award...

"Bull shot in Idaho, hunter sitting in Montana for picture."

 :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: elkinrutdrivemenuts on November 21, 2016, 11:43:58 AM
Is it a possibility that something like this guy could actually exist in the wild?  By wild I mean the mountains, not any bulls running around the Hanford reservation or on farm land. 
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: theleo on November 21, 2016, 11:51:13 AM
Is it a possibility that something like this guy could actually exist in the wild?  By wild I mean the mountains, not any bulls running around the Hanford reservation or on farm land.
If the genetics, habitat, and next to no predator pressure are there, then there's no reason one can't be but it's unlikely.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: shadowless_nite on November 21, 2016, 12:16:30 PM
Lol, my friend sent me this last year from someone that told him it was shot I siouxon hahaha. I told him it was a load of bs and broke his hopes and dreams of a local unit with a bull like that. Kinda like when you stop by gas station bragging boards and someone posts a Internet picture and puts a local unit down hahaha
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on November 21, 2016, 12:41:08 PM
Lol, my friend sent me this last year from someone that told him it was shot I siouxon hahaha. I told him it was a load of bs and broke his hopes and dreams of a local unit with a bull like that. Kinda like when you stop by gas station bragging boards and someone posts a Internet picture and puts a local unit down hahaha

Too funny.  It would take several to many Siouxon bulls glued together to make up the mass of this guy  :chuckle:
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Landowner on November 21, 2016, 12:55:50 PM
All that is needed to go with this farm bull is a 1,200 yard shot.   Such an exciting story that would be. 

Sarcasm
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: boneaddict on November 21, 2016, 01:06:09 PM
Is it a possibility that something like this guy could actually exist in the wild?  By wild I mean the mountains, not any bulls running around the Hanford reservation or on farm land.
Possibly before the internet or say the cell phone or back when they managed predators. Not anymore.

Moooooooooo
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: huntnphool on November 21, 2016, 01:10:26 PM
 Looks like it took a elephant gun to take it down too, his rifle is longer than he is. :rolleyes:

 The photographer should have stopped down to f18 for that shot!

 This takes "long arming" to a whole new level :chuckle:
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: JDHasty on November 21, 2016, 01:21:49 PM
Moo 
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Stein on November 21, 2016, 01:35:53 PM
Is it a possibility that something like this guy could actually exist in the wild?  By wild I mean the mountains, not any bulls running around the Hanford reservation or on farm land.
Possibly before the internet or say the cell phone or back when they managed predators. Not anymore.

Moooooooooo

Not even then, there was too much competition from other animals and predators.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Dan-o on November 21, 2016, 01:53:38 PM
No reason to think that a bull couldn't grow this big in the wild as long as it was fed grain, got regular vet visits, had year round high density mineral licks, never had to run from danger, didn't need to compete in the rut always had plenty of high quality alfalfa and water.   
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Bob33 on November 21, 2016, 01:56:36 PM
Photoshop is a lot easier, and cheaper.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Lefthook on November 21, 2016, 02:20:57 PM
Reminds me of a midget friend I hunted with in High School all "grown" up, except my friend seemed more in scale with his rifle. Hi Pete.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Stein on November 22, 2016, 01:26:52 PM
No reason to think that a bull couldn't grow this big in the wild as long as it was fed grain, got regular vet visits, had year round high density mineral licks, never had to run from danger, didn't need to compete in the rut always had plenty of high quality alfalfa and water.

You forgot about the afternoon massages.

The only question is which $500 coat camo pattern would work best for the hunt?
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Gunsmoke on November 22, 2016, 07:16:37 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, I think the world record bull shot in Utah scored around 480 and grossed 499
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Muleyslyr on November 22, 2016, 08:26:09 PM
One word.....stupid.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: Mr Mykiss on November 22, 2016, 08:30:53 PM
His pockets look deeeeep...
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: splitshot on November 22, 2016, 09:44:03 PM
  a funny thread and posts.  keep going.  mike w
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: huntandjeep on November 23, 2016, 06:53:17 AM
Correct me if I'm wrong, I think the world record bull shot in Utah scored around 480 and grossed 499
Spider bull wasn't a high fence bull.
Title: Re: 500+ Bull Elk
Post by: JDHasty on November 23, 2016, 08:28:28 AM
One word.....stupid.

Three more - cheap, crass and tawdry and by cheap I am fully aware that the pathetic schlub probably forked over something near to my wife's and my combined annual salary to validate in this photograph what everyone who knows him already suspects.

I always remember this aticle in teh Boise paper whne this topic comes up and how those defending these high fence opperations fared in the comments posted below it. 

http://www.boiseweekly.com/Cobweb/archives/2011/01/07/world-record-bull-elk-sort-of
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