HUGE Elk

[CATManReid]

Was flipping through the Western Outdoor News paper and stumbled across a small picture of a hunter and his huge prize. Caption only mentions the size...79" wide, green score of 575, with a non-typical score of 530. Caption also mentions this being the "biggest bull ever taken with any kind of weapon." Really nice bull, just wish there was more info and a story. Anyone know anything? 79" wide...I mean geeze! Stand that rack on it's side and I could fit comfortably between the beams...lol.

 

[Backcountry]

Complete BS...

http://www.boone-crockett.org/news/trophyWatch.asp?area=news

September 29, 2006
This photo is circulating the internet at World's Record pace. The text accompanying the photo states that it was taken in the Selway Wilderness in Idaho with a bow and scores somewhere between 530-575.

B&C is reserving judgment on this bull. If this bull were, in fact, taken as a natural, free-ranging, wild, native elk from the Selway region of Idaho, it would be approximately 130-150 inches bigger than any elk ever recorded from that region.

UPDATE: This bull was raised in a high-fenced environment in Quebec, and therefore ineligible to be entered into B&C's records program.

 

[CATManReid]

Thanks for the update!

 

[YORT40]

That feeding picture kills me.

Yes the rack is huge, but look at that gut! Talk about grain fed.

I bet he couldn't run more than 100 yds. without a feed-bag break!

 

[dirtpoor]

Actually he couldn't run more than 100 yds without running into a fence in Quebec !

 

[bowhuntr]

Very funny

 

[shocktower]

Well some folks think that that`s hunting ,I know it`s not

 

[el_vaquero]

I guess if you have the money to buy a home grown trophy why not?
I wonder how much that "hunt" cost.

I don't think I could consider that hunting in my book, but then again I don't have more money than I know what to do with.