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Here is a bull that my little brother unsuccessfully tried to slay a couple of years ago. He couldn't get close enough with his bow, and he never saw him during the rifle hunt. We didn't ever hear of this bull being taken. Nor have we heard of anyone picking up his sheds. We were really curious what he would end up scoring. Any ideas?
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The pics were taken through a spotting scope w/ a digital camera.
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Awesome bull , was he in Utah in a LE unit???

Which unit ???

Score i would guess 380 plus , plus and some of the experts will chime in and will be much more accurate at the score than me.

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Bull
 
he is all of 390 and then sum the pics a little grainy so i cant get a great look at how long the points are but those beams are insane!!

Wildlife population control specialist
 
the bull has a sick back end but ave on the front end and i actually do not think he has the mass, again average there. But the backs definately make him a book bull
 
Bubbas, I agree. I don't think that the fronts are great however I think they might be longer than we think. With everything else being so long it's a little hard to judge. After looking at those pictures a little closer I really think those are 60" main beams. Put it this way, #1 see the bull....#2 pull the trigger....#3 yep, those are for sure 60" main beams.:D



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I'm betting that bull is big enough to make you cry yourself to sleep two years after the hunt is over. I know I would be. Nice Bull.

RockyMtnOyster
 
That bull is big enough that if he lives on the Monroe unit and I encounter him in the first five minutes of my hunt, I won't be hunting the next five minutes. Holy cow, what a gorgeous bull!
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-30-08 AT 00:15AM (MST)[p]Perfect reply CAelknuts,

I hope you are so fortunate. For sure those beams hit the 60" mark. beautiful. That is the type of bull where i would be tempted to turn his head side mount just to rub in the beam length to everyone who saw it, even though i typically am not a fan of that mount.

fronts for sure are under 15". In relation to his face not comparing to the backs. I love long fronts but i will take a monster back end bull with smaller fronts over the opposite any day if I HAD to choose
 
>If it is a 7x7 like
>I think it is, then
>it is pushin 410


Thats what I'm thinking he looks like a 7x7. He's definitely a 6x7. The only thing is that he doesn't look very wide even if he's as narrow as I think he is I think he'll gross atleast 390. Very nice bull! Anymore pics maybe some strait on so we can see how wide he is?

Thanks for posting.
 
There's no question, he's got 7 points per side and long beams.

Score wise, I'd guess he's pushing the 400 mark, maybe just shy of it. He's got great beam length and swords.
 
Hes a 4.00 minute mile even for a fat guy spotted at 1000 yds with the naked eye after a night of drinking too much and waking up with a fat chick thats how big he is.
 
This bull is from the Elkhorns in Montana (2005). Like I said in the original post, I have never heard of anyone taking this bull or picking up sheds. I am curious if he is still around. I would sure love to have one of those tags.
Soup
 
LAST EDITED ON Aug-06-08 AT 11:28AM (MST)[p]Soupcreek,

I could be wrong but that sure looks like the bull that my buddy took a shot at during the rifle hunt on the Elkhorns in 2005. We had been hunting for five days and weren't seeing any bulls so we moved to a lower part of the unit one afternoon around lunch time just to look the country over and see if it was worth hunting. That evening we hiked up to a high lookout and we hadn't even sat down and broke out the spotting scopes when I looked over two ridges and saw him feeding with two other bulls and two cows. One of the bulls, which is the one my buddy ended up tagging, was a 376" 7X7, the other was just a small raghorn. Anyways the bull my buddy shot was nowhere near the size of the other bull. I guessed him to be right at the 400" mark! We tried to get into position on the bigger bull but were only able to get within 400 yards of the bull and he shot and missed, ended up shooting the other one minutes later.
P.S. if it is the same bull which I am willing to bet it is another hunter ended up taking him the day after my buddy shot his not 1/4 mile from where we last saw him. I tried to get my buddy to wait and not shoot the lesser bull but his wifes father was ill and he wanted to get home to be with his wife.
bm
 
bm,
Any idea who the lucky hunter was. I'm know my brother would love to get good look at the antlers and see what it actually scored. I think the 4ths on it have to be 25-30 inches.
Let me know if you know who got him.
Thanks,
Soup
 
I have seen this bull for five consecutive years. I have searched days and years for the sheds with no luck. I was lucky enough to draw a tag in that district five years ago. Thats when I first saw the bull. I have been taking pic and live video ever since. I did see him last fall but his horn length was smaller. I have been fortunate to be able spend hundred of days in that disrtict and he is the best bull I have seen.
 
I'm soupcreek's little brother and the guy who took these pictures. This bull and a dozen cows spent about an hour in the middle of a wide open hillside with no trees or cover to hide our approach, so we just sat and watched and took these pictures.

I was able to locate this bull five different times over the course of twelve days of bowhunting in September 2005. I got within about 80 yards of him twice, but he just would not let me get any closer. And I'm not a good enough archer to try an 80-yard shot at a walking animal through the timber, which is the best he gave me.

To resolve any doubts, he was a solid 7 on both sides, and very symmetrical. The pictures don't show it very well, because like soup said, I took them by holding the lens of my cheap digital camera up to the eyepiece of my friend's spotting scope. I was most of a mile away and taking the pictures through a drizzly rain.

I've had several people tell me that on the opening day of rifle season a 400-class bull was taken in the same area I hunted this bull, but by all accounts that bull was a massive 6x6. I've never heard of a big 7x7 being taken from that area. A friend of mine also claims to have spotted this bull in January 2006, so I've assumed he might have survived.

mtgiants' post is the first I've heard from anyone spotting him since then. I'd sure love to know what happened to those sheds.

I'll post some more pictures of him.
 
Even though those fronts are only about 15", 16" tops, that extra long beam and the G6 points MORE than make up points for those fronts.

I'm with ya AWLB, your #2 choice is a very wise one. ;-)







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This is a pic I took in the fall of 07. As you can see the bull has age a little. The tines aren't as long as they were but he is still a keeper.
 
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This is another pic I took that day. The monster is bugling and literlly shaking all the pine cones off the trees.
 

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