You’ve got some small elk there.
Some of the Roosevelt elk on the coast are a LOT bigger than Rocky Mountain elk. Just like the people who mean whitetail when they say "deer", most folks mean Rocky Mountain elk when they say elk.
Our big Roosevelt bulls on a scale are big enough that I don't post actual weights anymore because the Colorado boys call me a liar. They are close to the weights of
2 and some three year old moose from southern BC. I will say that on my grandson's huge 5x5 Pope and Young Roosevelt bull, we boned him out and packed within a few ounces of 300 pounds up to the vehicle: scale weight. And that bull was not our biggest one, by quite a bit.
The weights posted to start this thread sound about right for similar Rocky Mountain bulls I have killed and processed, smaller than a big mature Rocky Mountain bull.
