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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: huntnnw on October 05, 2022, 04:53:51 PM

Title: Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took
Post by: huntnnw on October 05, 2022, 04:53:51 PM: Couple years ago I took a bull in Idaho on a OTC unit . Upon walking up to it I noticed the body was massive , bigger than most bulls I’ve ever dealt with. We had scales with us to weigh meat for pack panniers for our goats . Once we boned it all out we had 322 lbs of meat . Back at camp I looked at teeth and noticed the ivories were worn to the gum line , so I was interested in how old this bull was. I saved the teeth and then misplaced them! About a year later I found them. I sent them in and got the results last month. 10.5 yrs old. Pretty impressive for where this bull called home, it was ground zero for wolf re-introduction in ID. Anyways thought I’d share
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Post by: huntnnw on October 05, 2022, 04:54:25 PM: .
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Post by: raydog on October 05, 2022, 04:57:46 PM: That's awesome! Quite the brusier
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Post by: cooltimber on October 05, 2022, 05:40:36 PM: Quote from: raydog on October 05, 2022, 04:57:46 PM
That's awesome! Quite the brusier
Be interesting to see that bulls track record ,if he had a collar!
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Post by: cedarriver on October 05, 2022, 05:44:40 PM: Very Cool. Always really cool to think of what he has survived and weathered through those 10 1/2 years. thanks for sharing.
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Post by: Bowhunter3 on October 05, 2022, 06:11:49 PM: Right on very impressive
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Post by: Bigtine96 on October 05, 2022, 06:12:26 PM: Very cool great bull, I killed a bull a couple years ago and sent in the tooth to WDFW. Never heard back or got results so emailed them and they lost my tooth. Just another example of Idaho having a superior fish and game.
Title: Re: Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took
Post by: huntnnw on October 05, 2022, 06:23:23 PM: Quote from: Bigtine96 on October 05, 2022, 06:12:26 PM
Very cool great bull, I killed a bull a couple years ago and sent in the tooth to WDFW. Never heard back or got results so emailed them and they lost my tooth. Just another example of Idaho having a superior fish and game.

I sent out to deerage
Title: Re: Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took
Post by: Farmer72 on October 05, 2022, 06:56:17 PM: I sent in teeth last year for the bull I got here in WA. The online tooth look-up told me they got them and to wait 8-10 months. It has now been 12 with no update. I emaiiled them and they said the lab was very backed up and it would be more like 16-18 months. Maybe I will get them back in 6 months.
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Post by: greenhead_killer on October 05, 2022, 07:19:20 PM: Crazy to think of what they will do to adapt to their circumstances(wolves) and continue to survive. They are amazing critters. Pretty cool history on that one
Title: Re: Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took
Post by: blindluck on October 05, 2022, 08:24:26 PM: Quote from: Bigtine96 on October 05, 2022, 06:12:26 PM
Very cool great bull, I killed a bull a couple years ago and sent in the tooth to WDFW. Never heard back or got results so emailed them and they lost my tooth. Just another example of Idaho having a superior fish and game.
I just looked they finally sent my results it took a long time, my friend was told they lost his.
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Post by: Bigtine96 on October 05, 2022, 08:43:57 PM: Well I’ll keep holding out hope haha
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Post by: Falcon on October 06, 2022, 05:44:22 AM: awesome bull. I juts my teeth in from my Roosevelt bull.
Hope the game Dept still ages teeth.
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Post by: JustinC on October 06, 2022, 07:14:14 AM: In 2015 my brother and I both drew quality archery bull tags for the blue mountains, and they asked us to send the teeth in for those. My brother's bull was a really nice 372" 6x6 with kickers on each side and was 7.5 years old. My bull was a 361" 7x8 with incredible mass throughout his antler points and he ended up being 14.5 years old. I would have loved to see him at 9 or 10 years old.
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Post by: mburrows on October 06, 2022, 07:37:23 AM: That’s really cool I need to start sending in teeth.
Title: Re: Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took
Post by: LDennis24 on October 06, 2022, 08:06:27 AM: Quote from: JustinC on October 06, 2022, 07:14:14 AM
In 2015 my brother and I both drew quality archery bull tags for the blue mountains, and they asked us to send the teeth in for those. My brother's bull was a really nice 372" 6x6 with kickers on each side and was 7.5 years old. My bull was a 361" 7x8 with incredible mass throughout his antler points and he ended up being 14.5 years old. I would have loved to see him at 9 or 10 years old.

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