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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: hunterofelk on March 10, 2012, 03:40:56 PM

Title: Guess this old bull's score.
Post by: hunterofelk on March 10, 2012, 03:40:56 PM: Don't know the exact history of this bull, but he has hung on the wall of Dan Bailey's Fly Shop in Livingston, Montana since I can remember. Mid 1970's. Someone there once told me the skull cap was split so the score can't be official. I'm just guessing he came out of Yellowstone Park one cold morning and was killed by someone forgotten now. When I was a kid I would wander into the shop and just stare at this old guy. Right next door was a taxidermist shop I spent some time in too.

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I'm getting a little sentimental. Here is Main Street small town USA. We use to go hunting only twenty minutes from home.

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Post by: huntbow on March 10, 2012, 05:52:01 PM: Oh, heck I'll give it a try. Not good at this but.............. Lots of length, 3rds are nice, pretty good width, only thing lacking is mass. Trouble is, I don't know what percentage the mass measurement gives to overall score. I'd say he is 340-350 ???
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Post by: buckfvr on March 10, 2012, 06:10:00 PM: 360
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on March 10, 2012, 06:16:57 PM: Yeah I would say somewhere between 350 & 360 ...
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Post by: adamR on March 10, 2012, 06:36:19 PM: I'd say 355
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Post by: coachcw on March 10, 2012, 08:41:09 PM: he's over 370
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Post by: norsepeak on March 10, 2012, 08:43:45 PM: he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8 :tup:
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Post by: bearpaw on March 10, 2012, 08:45:23 PM: no way to tell in a photo, but he's real big.... :tup:

great moose right next to him too... :tup:

I will guess 380
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Post by: ridgefire on March 10, 2012, 08:52:09 PM: 360ish.. would love to have grown up in an area like that and hopefully will live in a area like that someday. my dream is to someday to be able to sit on my front porch and watch a bull like that grazing in the front 40
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Post by: the1rod on March 10, 2012, 09:00:19 PM: no idea about score, all i care about is where is that town and when can i move in?
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Post by: ribka on March 10, 2012, 09:10:36 PM: Quote from: norsepeak on March 10, 2012, 08:43:45 PM
he's got 3 2/8 deductions, makes him 368 5/8 :tup:

Are you frigging blind Norse?

At least 3 and 6/8's deduction. Jeesh!
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on March 10, 2012, 09:11:18 PM: I would see no problems with that bull hitting 360"
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Post by: 6x6in6 on March 10, 2012, 09:31:09 PM: John Bailey, Dan Bailey Fly Shop founder, harvested that bull in the late '60's in the Crazy Mountains, which is the mountain range in the back drop of the photo above.
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Post by: 400out on March 11, 2012, 08:43:48 AM: real good thirds :drool: 386

Is that one of buckluckys mounts :chuckle:
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Post by: LivinTheDream on March 11, 2012, 09:31:36 AM: 377
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Post by: steen on March 11, 2012, 09:32:25 AM: 349 Is there a prize for the winner?
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Post by: deerslyr on March 11, 2012, 09:43:43 AM: I love livingston, cool little town. Ill have to stop in that fly shop next time im there. I was in big timber this weekend, another cool town.
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Post by: hunterofelk on March 11, 2012, 10:59:31 AM: No prize, sorry. Just wanted to share. Unless someone from the store has scored it, I don't know. My guess is somewhere around 360. If the bull grew more mass, it might have made the book. Livingston is a windy town, but Big Timber takes the cake. Actually the mountains in the background are the Absaroka Mountains and the closest one is Livingston Peak. Climbed the peak
many times in my youth. Greatest view up there.
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Post by: Ridge Roamer on March 11, 2012, 11:27:14 AM: I recognized that background right away, lived in Bozeman 76 - 88, love that area!
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Post by: et1702 on March 11, 2012, 11:50:37 AM: I've been in that store many times. Did some work in Livingston between 2007 and 2009. Great place!

370

ET
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Post by: 6x6in6 on March 11, 2012, 02:57:53 PM: Quote from: hunterofelk on March 11, 2012, 10:59:31 AM
Actually the mountains in the background are the Absaroka Mountains and the closest one is Livingston Peak.
Oopps, yup, I was 180* off. :tup:
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Post by: Kowsrule30 on March 11, 2012, 03:58:38 PM: 360+ Great bull!!!
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Post by: whitetailslyr on March 11, 2012, 09:41:20 PM: 365+
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Post by: backcountry55 on March 12, 2012, 12:15:09 AM: im going to say right at 362
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Post by: RadSav on March 12, 2012, 02:59:59 AM: Not much mass be lucky to get 28" per side, but equally impressive length and spread I guess at 48", average 15" per point. I'll guess at 375.
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on March 12, 2012, 05:45:28 AM: 349