The 5th year they are pretty good looking symmetrical 6 points and start to put on some good mass. Again, this is general in the areas around my home. The 4th year, they "generally" get a small 6th point. "Most" 2 year old bulls that I have watched grow or have killed remain 5x5's from year 2 through year 3. Some are really crappy looking 3x3's and 4x4's, but a couple are really symmetrical 5x5's.
#380 class bull elk full#
I have shot several arks full of 2 year old bulls. He had the same rack, but with MUCH longer points and unbelievable mass. I saw his big brother and he would easily go 330 and was also a 5x5. This gene is fairly common in the area and I LOVE big 5x5's. I killed the bull pictured below and he would likely never be anything more than a 5x5 with big whale tales. Some elk are what they are and just don't get really big high scoring racks.
He asked the biologist why it was this way and he told him "for the same reason you are 6'4" 250# and I have 5'7". His bull weighed 970# and was 300# bigger than the next biggest bull. My son killed a big dry cow that the total carcass weight with feet cut off and head cut off was 450#.Ī buddy killed a 300" bull in AZ that was weighed at a check station by a guy working on his grad degree. In later years, we boned them all so I don't know what they weighed or bigger ones for that matter. They were never whole when I got them out! Most of the spikes we killed weighed 220-240# and that is the full quarters only which included the rib cages and some neck meat. I have never killed a 5 pt myself but I have killed and been in on a lot of spike kills. A lot of it depends on if they still have any molars left at that age. I have seen bulls as young as 5 1/2 years old reach 375" here in AZ and I have seen a 13 year old bull that was 380+. Those Colorado bulls must be real predictable. Amazing how you guys can tell a 6 or 7 year old bull just standing there in the meadow. Most of the 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 year old bulls I see killed are 5pts. http:/ / / albums/ pp5/ richman_mark/ Trophies.jpg The 6 point in comparison to some 140 and 150 inch whitetails on top of the shelf: That little 7 point next to the bigger 6 point: This bull, is probably a 3 year old, from Montana, and is considerably heavier, though still just a 5 point:Ĭompare to a 4 old 6 point, which still doesn't have particularly long main beams, but is much more massive in antler, probably twice the diameter of those first two bulls, and step up from the last one. Here's an otherwise very similar 5 point raggy with nearly identical mass at the base, but doesn't carry it as far up:Īnother two year old, with fewer points, from New Mexico, similar mass at the base, similar spindliness up high compared to the last one: His frame is a basic 5 point, with two extras on each side. Had looked over 100 or so elk that morning, and as my partners started putting elk down, I knew my next couple of days were going to be spent packing instead of hunting, so I "settled" on him, even though I told myself I wouldn't shoot anything less than a four year old before the shooting started. He probably did have great potential, and I figured he was just a 4 or 5 point run of the mill raggy when I shot him.
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