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I've been looking for proof this wasn't a real fair-chase elk, but it looks like it was the real deal. I didn't think there were still monsters out there in General hunt areas. ![[Linked Image]](http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/billingsgazette.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/3/67/367c4be7-5aca-51e8-8076-088666f20db6/54d0233bd6ce6.preview-620.jpg) http://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...d7418c2-f1f6-5231-8f2b-e398fa9d7335.html
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Looking at those pictures, I'd have never believed that was Wyoming, and especially not near Dubois. Trees and grass just don't look right to me, but I'm not even close to being an expert on those types of things.
Congrats to the hunter on a magnificent bull!
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Real Deal. 2 limited draw areas meet up against a very rough remote chunk of General. Lots of good bulls have come out of that spot over the years.
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I spent most of the summer in Dubois last year. I saw that rack, or one like it, on a cab of a truck in town, it was a huge 6x7. It is magnificent! Congrats to the hunter. There were some real nice Bulls taken, a young lady took a real beauty with a recurve first week of the archery only season.
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What a bull.. Things dreams are made of..
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What a bull.. Things dreams are made of.. +1. indeed what dreams are made of. Such an accomplishment on public ground.
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What a bull.. Things dreams are made of.. Absolutely!
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Indeed, this is a fabulous bull elk.
Over many years of personal elk hunting and guiding in Hell's Canyon, I've literally seen tens of thousands of bull elk.
I've seen many bulls that were almost as good as this one ... I say almost because they seemingly always had weak 3rds, a major tine broken off or one side that was limp. Hell, we even had a bull in Hell's that was a fantastic six-point on one side and a hellacious five-foot spike on the other.
I've seen precisely ONE elk that was of this bull's caliber ... and he might easily have been bigger. Actually, the one I saw was probably a bit bigger by ten-inches or so, but this one's dead and I had to let mine walk.
It was cow season, I had a cow tag in my pocket and all I could do was drool!!! The next day, I killed an ancient bitch of a lead cow that had screwed up stalks for us many, many times. In many ways, killing that toothless old hag and grinding her meat into delicious hamburger was almost worth not being able to kill the bull ... almost.
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Indeed, this is a fabulous bull elk.
Over many years of personal elk hunting and guiding in Hell's Canyon, I've literally seen tens of thousands of bull elk.
I saw precisely ONE that was of this bull's caliber ... and he might easily have been bigger.
It was cow season, I had a cow tag in my pocket and all I could do was drool!!! The next day, I killed an ancient bitch of a lead cow that had screwed up stalks for us many, many times. In many ways, killing that toothless old hag and grinding her meat into delicious hamburger was almost worth not being able to kill the bull ... almost.
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 Almost. Huge bull, amazing really.
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We used to see a bazillon elk in Hell's. It is really amazing what a small percentage of large bulls there are, even in really remote, relatively unhunted zones.
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Extraordinary Bull.
I assume the score is not a B&C number, but an SCI number?
Right now there is a genuine 400 class bull on the reserve in Jackson if anyone is headed that way...
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yep.
Gross.
Outstanding trophy.
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Looking at those pictures, I'd have never believed that was Wyoming, and especially not near Dubois. Trees and grass just don't look right to me, but I'm not even close to being an expert on those types of things.
Congrats to the hunter on a magnificent bull! The woods looks exactly like the woods I hunted in Dubois, minus the big bull, all I seen were dang bighorn sheep, lots of them and dumber then domestic sheep..... go figure. But long grass and all I believe this to be 100 percent legitimate. The locals are all talking about it. Shame there is a wolf pack pushing the elk right into town now......
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Amazing bull right there...
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We used to see a bazillon elk in Hell's. It is really amazing what a small percentage of large bulls there are, even in really remote, relatively unhunted zones.
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Yes Steve, and to me it appears that truth holds true for mule deer and especially whitetails. I would appreciate your opinion on that.
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