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That’s an incredible trophy, I would never get tired of looking at that, gonna make a great mount. Yeah, nice conversation piece for sure.
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Big mo fo for sure. Spectacular rack!
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Thats bigger than those tame farmed elkes they sell in Canada.
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Easy winters no predators flat farm land its farm land, partialy, but it aint flat where the Elk are Yeah, the land ain't flat and I wouldn't exactly call the Winters easy.
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ribka; Top of the morning to you sir, I hope you've got your long johns on this morning if you're at 7200'! I was up looking to see what was where after our crazy fire season yesterday morning and it was just +2 C, which I was dressed for, but not mentally prepared enough to experience quite yet! That's a buster bull for sure and I really love the crowns on top. The Manitoba subspecies we had on the prairies would do that in some areas, it seemed like a bit of a regional thing out there. The Roosevelt subspecies on Vancouver Island will do that too, but again they're a different subset of genes being on the Island and all. We do have some decent bulls taken in the Okanagan, but I don't ever recall seeing anything other than typical racks. Of course we're limited to minimum 6 point bulls and I did find a herd that seemingly produced outsize 5x4 mature bulls.... I'm lucky that way.  Thanks to the OP for posting the photo. Good luck on your hunt ribka and do keep warm! Dwayne
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Looks like it has red deer genes up top. That bull is giant for sure.
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https://youtu.be/5sQ_0oL1ubAhere is a realy good video presentation on the History of our Elk
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Joken2: Holey moley!
That IS a monster Bull!
Good for that eastern Hunter.
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P.S.: Indeed the fact that there are no large packs of Wolves in Pennsylvania is definitely a plus for growing (allowing to grow/age!) trophies like that.
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Genetics well selected back when, good feed, limited hunting. Voila !!
Beautiful bull.
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Joken2: Holey moley!
That IS a monster Bull!
Good for that eastern Hunter.
Hold into the wind
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P.S.: Indeed the fact that there are no large packs of Wolves in Pennsylvania is definitely a plus for growing (allowing to grow/age!) trophies like that. I believe there's a very small population of Red wolves in some of the eastern coastal states. Red wolves are larger than coyotes but smaller than grey wolves. They are listed as an endangered species so not anywhere near enough of them to be a concern as a threat to healthy mature deer or elk populations. I'd imagine, though, they could and likely would take down whitetail fawns and an occasional elk calve. Back around the late '80s - early '90s KY's F&G was going to try to reestablish Red Wolves in the "Land Between The Lakes" preserve but were met with many objections from surrounding property owners who feared they would eventually stray off the preserve and become a threat to livestock, pets and possibly humans. F&G and game couldn't guarantee they could keep them contained on the preserve and finally just gave up and dropped the whole restock plan.
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Easy winters no predators flat farm land Flat. LMFAO
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Easy winters no predators flat farm land Flat. LMFAO Haha! Yeah. That's a good one...
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Joken2: Holey moley!
That IS a monster Bull!
Good for that eastern Hunter.
Hold into the wind
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P.S.: Indeed the fact that there are no large packs of Wolves in Pennsylvania is definitely a plus for growing (allowing to grow/age!) trophies like that. He was hunting in the eastern end of elk range But he's from Bellingham WA...
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And the west had many decades to produce bucks and bulls without predation from wolves. By far, IME, the majority of really big western deer and elk always came from private or reservation land. Or at least from the mid 70s onward.
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Too cool. Wish we had them here.
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Easy winters no predators flat farm land Easy winters? Flat? Guess you arent from here lol
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