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Title: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: wastickslinger on April 29, 2008, 09:52:46 PM: Finally found a few elk sheds on a short walk today. I never get the chance to look for elk horns so I get excited over even rag horns. These were laying about 10 feet apart. Bottom end looks the same but the top end does not. What do you think, same bull??? Or do I need to find the rag horn matches? I think same bull.
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: archery288 on April 29, 2008, 09:54:36 PM: I think it could very easily be the same bull if they were that close together!? And on the 5 point his 2nd is very weak which would allow for more growth up top. No elk grows perfet antlers!
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: jackelope on April 29, 2008, 09:54:58 PM: same out-of-whack bull. a non-matched matched set.
:chuckle:
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Post by: Michelle_Nelson on April 29, 2008, 10:00:03 PM: Nice. . . .I'd have been more that estatic to find em.
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Post by: boneaddict on April 29, 2008, 10:03:33 PM: same bull, no doubt.
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Post by: mkcj on April 29, 2008, 10:08:00 PM: I think there matched
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Post by: muledude on April 29, 2008, 10:10:24 PM: nice charactar....
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: bow4elk on April 29, 2008, 10:17:03 PM: check the shape of the bases...the best way to know for sure. Also, texture, color help too.
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: wastickslinger on April 29, 2008, 10:19:03 PM: I figured it was. I also saw 3 rag horns still packing. Shouldn't they be almost all dropped by now? Excuse my ignorance, like I said I have been a deer horn hunter for ever. Just started looking for elk this year a few times.
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: jackelope on April 29, 2008, 10:28:02 PM: the 30-40 elk i saw last weekend were all dropped, but one of the other guys on here who saw elk the week before in the same area were still packing.
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: Coasthunterjay on April 30, 2008, 12:11:46 AM: nice horns man, deffinantly the same animals......
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: MuleySniper on April 30, 2008, 08:22:01 AM: Quote from: wastickslinger on April 29, 2008, 10:19:03 PM
I figured it was. I also saw 3 rag horns still packing. Shouldn't they be almost all dropped by now? Excuse my ignorance, like I said I have been a deer horn hunter for ever. Just started looking for elk this year a few times.

Your excused. Nice find you dog!
MS
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: muledude on April 30, 2008, 08:55:13 PM: Im no biologist but the rags tend to hang on to them longer, Im guessing the weight of the horns on the bigger bulls helps them drop sooner, aswell as they need more time to grown there new hardware??I've also read that the poorer there health the longer they will keep them???I was up towards Randle this last weekend and saw two fairly heavy" Better than average" 5's. One still had a right and the other had a left????
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: cascademountainhunter on May 22, 2008, 05:43:43 PM: i would shoot at it.
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Post by: M_ray on May 22, 2008, 07:04:46 PM: I'd say same Bull ... It has the same characteristics on each side if you look close.
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Post by: Jackjr on May 22, 2008, 08:58:05 PM: I would say same bull, but I am no expert
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Post by: PacificNWhunter on May 24, 2008, 01:26:36 PM: I agree with some of the other guys..looks like the same bull.
Title: Re: 5X3 Elk??
Post by: Head-shot on May 24, 2008, 03:23:24 PM: Maybe he has spent some time in a pot grow while he was growing them and it messed with his horns :chuckle: :chuckle: