This is ridiculous!!! [pic heavy!!]

[CoRoMo]

There are supposedly now, elk of this size, waaaaaay up in the Yukon.







The email I was sent, said this:

This bull was killed in the Yukon on 9-25.
Elk were put in there in 1958 from Yellowstone Park.

This was the first year they have been hunted.
They drew for 15 permits. The hunter is Al Klassen.
He's been a sheep guide in the Yukon and Northwest Territories
and has personally guided over 100 Dall Ram kills.

Preliminary gross score... 451 5/8​

I'm counting something like 10x11 or so points.
Looks like one of those massive brow tines has a couple of stickers of its own!

 

[MCgunner]

I've wondered what they do with the meat when they kill one that far out away from human habitation and roads. Do they just take the skull and leave everything else? Seems like such a waste. I've never had the trophy hunter mentality, though. It's the meat I want and that bad boy has a year's worth on him! LOL

 

[CoRoMo]

Are you familiar with this story? I'm not.
How far out were they? Maybe they had a bush plane at camp?
That's how they do it in Frank Church anyway.

 

[wankerjake]

My that's a big one. I know for moose the general practice is to bone out the majority of the animal right there on the ground and carry the meat back in packs. I'm sure more meat is left than what we are used to MCgunner, but then again it is probably much more difficult to get them out whole. Especially moose, if you can't drive to that thing it would be crazy even trying to pack it out in quarters. Anyway that thing is a monster.

 

[MCgunner]

Yeah, I'd have to build an A frame to hang that thing even if I could get it back, LOL, either that or rent a cherry picker.

 

[schlockinz]

reminds me of Utah's spider bull

 

[hardluk1]

coromo that looks like one of those New Zeland (elk)

 

[P.B.Walsh]

WOW

 

[RoostRider]

I am pretty sure most states (if not all) have laws against the "wanton waste of game".... meaning it is illegal to kill something and not use it, or at least give it away.... you are obliged to at least try to salvage all of the meat that you can....

Getting it out before spoiling should be part of the plan.... but it's part of the job and no one should consider themselves 'successful' in a hunt unless they harvest the meat....

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Whaddya wanna bet he's ALSO smiling in pic #3, where he's turned the other way?

 

[Grizfire]

who knows for sure where it came from if you got the information in a chain email.

I remember once a story of a huge griz killed by a trucker near Lincoln Montana, and a few years later the story was bastardized in an email saying it was hit by a motorcyclist in an area of Idaho that doesn't even have griz.

Here is a link to the FACTUAL story in case anyone got the phony email.

http://www.newwest.net/city/article/18257/C8/L8/