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Just received this in an email.
Anyone have more information about this animal or the hunt?
Personally I hope it wasn't a hunt like the bull recently shot in Utah.


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I thought you would all find these Pics of the 466" Washington's Governors tag bull very interesting.
It is being called the "Bird Bath" elk.
The person who took these photos had an opportunity of a lifetime this last week and got to be a part of the hunt
for this Washington giant. The hunter was Dan Agnew from Vancouver. The bull is a 9x10, with a green score of
450" plus. It will be the new WA state record. Also included is a photo of the elk alive on the evening of
9/2/08 from across the canyon

Awesome animal,
I know nothing of the hunt but noticing Rifle and not a spec of blaze, I would say it was a ranch hunt, just a hunch.

no, it's probably not like the UT bull's demise - I'm only counting 5 guides in the pic (I think the UT guy had at least 6).

Wow!!!!!!!

Wow! that is a nice bull! I also hope it wasnt like the other bull but you gotta wonder...........

The pictures of the live and dead bull all have the same date. Kind of odd.

Nice bull though. Is it a RME or a Roosevelt? It also seems strange that they all have nice clean cammies on and absolutely no orange. Is orange a requirement during the WA rifle season?

The governor's tag allows the holder to hunt in any open or draw unit right??? As long as all rules concerning the unit or draw are followed? Regardless it is a nice animal.

I did also notice the time oddity.
If the pictures were taken with the same camera it is a mistake to say " evening" as 07:00 the time of the "live" picture would have been 7 AM. The remaining pictures are in the 20:00's which is evening.

You're right...

Seriously, look how clean n~perty those guys are. Me and my gang hunt in nasty, blood stained wranglers and walls. Our orange and cammies are ripped and faded. Those dudes look like Cabelas models.

That doesn't mean this bull wasn't fair chase or anything, they just doesn't strike me as average hunters/guides. Maybe they wanted a "magazine perfect" picture or something. Who knows.

Judging by the terrain and the massive rack it's a Rocky Mountain elk. If I was taking a pic of a bull that nice I'd clean up a bit and ditch the clown...I mean hunter...orange too. I doubt I'd be rifle hunting in full on camo though. I'm more fond of Filson wool coat and army surplus wool pants but I'm on a budget.

I'm not making any judgments about how or where the elk was taken just because it's huge. We don't have any elk ranching in WA so if it was a "ranch hunt" that can only mean fair chase on public land. A bull nearly that big was taken by a Yakama tribal member a few years back near Satus Pass so they're out there.

This news has really made the rounds here in Washington (as it should for such an awesome bull). Here's a press release which can perhaps shed some more insight:

In Washington, hunter Dan Agnew reportedly knocked down a green-scored 449-gross, 436-net, non-typical Rocky Mountain elk. The current record is a 2003 bow-kill that measured 421 7/8.
Agnew also set another record by paying $65,000 for the eastside Governor's Tag, the highest ever in Washington. The bids rose because hunters knew this big bull was somewhere out there in Game Management Unit 162 in the state's southwest.
Agnew hired two local guides and shot the bull after a short hunt on Sept. 2.

"A lot of people have really given me a hard time because it sounds like I kind of showed up and shot him and went home, and that is kind of what happened," Agnew told the Spokesman-Review. "But that has never happened to me before. I've spent months looking for big elk and come home empty-handed."
Agnew is not new to big-game hunting. The Vancouver, Wash., hunter has several B&C bulls under his belt. One 410 elk, shot in Arizona in 2003, has the distinction of the longest main beam in B&C records: 66 3/8 inches.

As for the hunter orange requirement, as I interpret the regulations, hunter orange would indeed be required:

�Anyone hunting deer or elk in an area currently open to modern firearm deer or elk hunting is required to wear fluorescent hunter orange clothing. This includes archers and muzzleloaders while hunting in units which overlap modern firearm seasons.�

�Anyone hunting in an area that is open for modern firearm deer or elk hunting must meet hunter orange requirements if they are hunting any of the following species: Bear, Bobcat, Cougar, Coyote,Deer, Elk, Fox, Grouse, Hare, Rabbit, or Raccoon.�

I wish I had $65,000 to spend on anything, let alone an elk tag. He probably worked hard for his money, so good for him. Hired guides or not, that is a great bull.

The 2 bold words do have me confused though.

its the sw of the east side............or lower middle

I read it was a public land hunt near Dayton. The reason they aren't wearing clown suits, I mean hunter orange is that the governor's tag allows hunting from Sept. 1 to Dec. 1 and orange is only required during specific general and special seasons, this one man season not being one of them.

Dude hired two guides, one from OR and one from WA and the hunt only took an hour because he got lucky.

I don't begrudge the dude his awesome bull. If I had that kind of money I sure wouldn't be living like I am now either.

Yep.....very nice bull. I'm envious and obviously less affluent.......grin.

I hope the hunter enjoys his moment, 'cuz the one pic looks like he'll blow his head off if one's chambered, his safety is off and one of those little branches catches on his trigger..................just a thought.

I think his father was Sam Agnew. Had large timber holdings in Southern Oregon. When Sam died I heard the inheritence tax value was $50,000,000. I think the timber holdings were sold in the 1980,s and logs shipped to Japan.

Money can buy happiness !

This was nothing more than a commercial assassination using
5 clowns dressed in camo.

This is not hunting.

Too bad "they" killed a magnificent animal.

Amen to that SU!

Like I've said b4, remove the hunters name from the record books and see how things go...

Oh and you spose that's a 30/378 with a Brake on it...now I know why I can't stand those rifles.....

Dober

Congrats to Everyone!!
Conrats to the guides who guided to this this bull, hopefully it made their year!!Just being in the pic is awesome but I hope they were taken care of!!
Congrats to the State of Washington for producing an awesome bull and for setting a new record for their auction tag!
Congrats to The Washington G&F and to the people of Washington who will benefit from the revenue that was brought in from the tag!
And finally Congrats to the hunter Dan Agnew (who has one of the greatest collections of Trophy bulls ever!)who had enough money to buy the tag, and make the shot count on another awesome bull!!(even if it was easy!!)