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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: ouchfoss on December 18, 2009, 08:58:58 PM

Title: Young Non-typical
Post by: ouchfoss on December 18, 2009, 08:58:58 PM: These are a few pictures my dad took of a bull with a weird skull. He's a 5x3 with no eye guards on one side and if you notice, that horn pedistal is down towards the middle of the skull. If he lives a few more years he might have some narely horns on that one side.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: mkcj on December 18, 2009, 09:06:14 PM: With that thing sticking almost straight out of his head I feel sorry for the elk he gets in a fight with. great pictures
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Post by: huntmando on December 19, 2009, 08:00:44 AM: It almost looks like it hurts.
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Post by: rasbo on December 19, 2009, 08:06:46 AM: that's a weird one,if it stays like that he might raise hell with the other bulls,seems like a face sticker for the opponents
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Post by: Angus on December 19, 2009, 08:08:55 AM: Quote from: huntmando on December 19, 2009, 08:00:44 AM
It almost looks like it hurts.

I agree.

I don't have much interest in mounting the deer or elk I've killed but I would consider that 1, pretty cool IMO.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: ouchfoss on December 19, 2009, 09:08:46 AM: You know, I wonder if a taxidermist would have a hard time mounting it considering that the pedestal is in a way different place than normal.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: jeepasaurusrex on December 19, 2009, 09:23:14 AM: Wasn't there a picture on here of one from the Nooksack herd that had the same style of horns? :dunno:
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Post by: Shootmoore on December 19, 2009, 09:26:09 AM: wonder if he broke his skull at one point and it fused back together wrong? I know my dad shot a raghorn one year with a broken skull. He did'nt want to shoot it because it was a dink but felt he should as when the bull came running across the field its antler was flopping up and down. Skull was broken completly around the antler in a circle. Shows how tuff these elk are, would of killed a human, and probably would have eventually killed the bull if he hung the flopping antler up in something eventually.

Shootmoore
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: ouchfoss on December 19, 2009, 09:40:02 AM: We were kinda thinking the same thing as far as the busted skull. About 5 or 6 years ago, my dad and I were in the same area and there was a small 4x4 that had an antler that poked out straight in line with his nose and was obviously broke cause when he would run you could see the antler move around with every step.
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Post by: robb92 on December 19, 2009, 10:02:47 AM: Would make a nice Euro mount
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Post by: ridgefire on December 20, 2009, 12:14:09 AM: my brother in law shot a bull that looks real similiar to that in idaho last year did a nice euro mount on it and called it the five by funk its a five point on one side and four on the other
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: alanger on December 20, 2009, 12:34:50 AM: hmm something u dont see everyday. im sure he'll be a ncie bull in a few years.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: billythekidrock on December 20, 2009, 06:25:33 AM: lol

Was he just above our camp?
I am pretty sure I have video of him and two other dinks in October.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: 1bowhunter1 on December 20, 2009, 07:10:44 AM: Uni-Elk! He will make a Awsome Head mount if he lives that long!!
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: ouchfoss on December 20, 2009, 10:20:15 AM: Quote from: billythekidrock on December 20, 2009, 06:25:33 AM
lol

Was he just above our camp?
I am pretty sure I have video of him and two other dinks in October.

Yeah he wasnt too far from your camp plus there was 3 other branched bulls. I'm hoping me and my dad can see him again to get some better quality pics before he loses the antlers.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: BLKBEARKLR on December 20, 2009, 05:25:26 PM: Quote from: ouchfoss on December 19, 2009, 09:08:46 AM
You know, I wonder if a taxidermist would have a hard time mounting it considering that the pedestal is in a way different place than normal.

No would not be hard to mount it, the cape would still be cut around the pedicule like normal. You night have to do some modifications on the form itself but as long as you got good measurements it would mount up fine...
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: Michelle_Nelson on December 20, 2009, 08:35:01 PM: Quote from: ouchfoss on December 19, 2009, 09:08:46 AM
You know, I wonder if a taxidermist would have a hard time mounting it considering that the pedestal is in a way different place than normal.

No not hard at all more than likely.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: billythekidrock on December 21, 2009, 05:56:43 AM: Quote from: ouchfoss on December 20, 2009, 10:20:15 AM
Quote from: billythekidrock on December 20, 2009, 06:25:33 AM
lol

Was he just above our camp?
I am pretty sure I have video of him and two other dinks in October.

Yeah he wasnt too far from your camp plus there was 3 other branched bulls. I'm hoping me and my dad can see him again to get some better quality pics before he loses the antlers.

Wow, they all made it through the modern firearm season.

I hope you can get some more pics. I was looking at the video and the one I have looks a little different but it is hard to tell. Same size on both sides, but the one in the video looks like it has a twisted fork on the 5pt side.
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Post by: bowhunterforever on December 21, 2009, 08:50:16 PM: Cool looking bull! 8)
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Post by: 180-GRAIN on December 23, 2009, 05:50:47 PM: Wow that is a good looking young bull. Stuff like that has to be from injury and I bet it hurt like hell when it happened.
Title: Re: Young Non-typical
Post by: Ripper on December 24, 2009, 02:51:17 AM: Thanks for posting ouch, way cool.