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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: Jackjr on May 28, 2008, 07:53:08 PM

Title: Largest Elk
Post by: Jackjr on May 28, 2008, 07:53:08 PM: With all the talk about the 451 bull it got me thinking. What is the largest bull ever taken on public land.
Title: Re: Largest Elk
Post by: bucklucky on May 28, 2008, 08:01:04 PM: The Shipsey bull at 505 gross I beleive. Couldnt be enterd because it was called using an electric call I beleive.
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Post by: boneaddict on May 28, 2008, 08:13:51 PM: The thought of a 500 bull just blows me away. I still think a 300 bull is huge.
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Post by: bucklucky on May 28, 2008, 08:15:27 PM: After handling a bunch of 360 to 407 inch bulls , 300 dont look so big anymore until reality sets in come hunting season :chuckle:
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Post by: actionshooter on May 28, 2008, 08:15:58 PM: A 300 bull is huge if your me :chuckle:
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Post by: boneaddict on May 28, 2008, 08:16:33 PM: They're always bigger on the hoof and on the pack out. :)
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Post by: Jackjr on May 28, 2008, 08:17:12 PM: Buck what was the score of the bull at your house on the pedestal???
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Post by: bucklucky on May 28, 2008, 08:19:10 PM: 396 or 397 gross, something like that.

A 200 inch bull is big for me :chuckle:
Title: Re: Largest Elk
Post by: Jackjr on May 28, 2008, 08:22:58 PM: any bull is good for me :)
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on May 28, 2008, 08:59:26 PM: When you have shot alot of spikes like I have any branched bull looks good
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Post by: Jackjr on May 28, 2008, 09:02:18 PM: I wonder what the largest scoring spike would be :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
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Post by: M_ray on May 28, 2008, 09:11:07 PM: They're all big as far as I'm concerned! ;)
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Post by: HuntingFanatic on May 28, 2008, 09:17:35 PM: Never hunted them so honestly Id think a spike would be extremely large! lol
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Post by: boneaddict on May 28, 2008, 09:19:11 PM: Well, when you are used to gutting a deer, they certainly are when you walk up to them. Then you go moose hunting.....
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Post by: bucklucky on May 28, 2008, 09:43:52 PM: Moose Hunting .........Man I wana kill one with my bow!!
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Post by: cascademountainhunter on May 28, 2008, 09:44:34 PM: was that elk killed in washington?
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Post by: zackmioli on May 29, 2008, 08:19:16 AM: Quote from: M_ray on May 28, 2008, 09:11:07 PM
They're all big as far as I'm concerned! ;)
quoted for truth.
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on May 29, 2008, 08:55:14 PM: I hear you Bone. I have been on many a moose kill and those things are huge..
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Post by: bucklucky on May 30, 2008, 08:27:29 AM: Heres more on the Shipsey Bull. This bull was killed on the San Carlos in 1997. The gross score is 502 6/8 and netted 487 and is a non-typical 9x9.I have a book calledThe golden age of elk hunting by John Caid that I bought at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation show in Reno about 5 years ago. It has hundreds of pictures of monster bulls and a story for most of them. Pretty cool read.
Title: Re: Largest Elk
Post by: Intruder on May 30, 2008, 09:20:07 AM: Quote from: boneaddict on May 28, 2008, 09:19:11 PM
Well, when you are used to gutting a deer, they certainly are when you walk up to them. Then you go moose hunting.....
A 300 bull is big in my book.
Dealin w/ a moose is a whole other ball-O-wax. They put a whole other spin on logistical nightmare. I can't fathom how hard it'd be to handle 1 by yourself. Hell, it took me and another guy over an hour and a half to clean one and we had a come along.
Title: Re: Largest Elk
Post by: bucklucky on May 30, 2008, 09:23:42 AM: Pretty much have to crawl inside ne of them big alaskans to cut the esophogus. I bet that a huge pile of guts!!