Credit: Mossback Guides and Outfitters
www.mossback.com/
Posted on 01/06/2009 3:06:02 PM PST by Daffynition
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 6 (UPI) -- An elk shot by a hunter in Utah has won official recognition for the largest rack ever recorded for a non-typical American elk.
Officials have also confirmed that the animal was not raised on a farm, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. Critics had suggested that an elk with such a big set of antlers could not have survived in the wild.
Doyle Moss, of MossBack Guides and Outfitters, said that other hunters had tracked the elk, nicknamed "the Spider bull," on Monroe Mountain. He said the elk clearly behaved like a wild elk.
Moss guided Dennis Austad of Ammon, Idaho, who won a special $150,000 Utah permit giving him the right to hunt on state lands for some months. The state uses the money for conservation.
"We all knew he was a special bull, but the reality of just how big he was really set in when we walked up to him," Moss said.
The elk's rack was scored at 478 5/8 points, a figure reached through a series of measurements of the antlers. The previous record in North America was an elk found in a frozen lake in British Columbia in 1994 that scored at 465 2/8.
Credit: Mossback Guides and Outfitters
www.mossback.com/
Nice rack.
A $150,000 permit?
I believe that is the price paid for by the guide service. I am sure they sponsors many hunts.
Very nice take! You must be proud of him .... that’s quite an accomplishment.
I way I read the article, Dennis Austad the hunter, won the $150,000 special permit to hunt on state lands.
Nice rack!
Maybe, but, you know how writers tend to run sentences and words together.
Yes, he’s quite a good bowhunter and has taught me alot. We are quite competitive with one another when it comes to bowhunting, but he will probably always remain way ahead of me on elk.
There will always be room hear for threads containing the words “large” and “rack”
Heh, heh!
;^)
Did I hear you here right about the large dear rack holding the deer rack??!!!
60 elk in a field 500 yds from my house right now.
DO you mean Pope and Young?
That bull doesn’t look like it could score 385 minimum Boone and Crockett typical.
We had a NE Buck make the record book this year [taken with muzzle loader] . I saw them score it and it was an interesting process.
Very nice! I’m jealous, of course!
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