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Some of it depends on how much hair the elk has or how fat it is and some of it is regional. Bull advertising his fitness to cows. The bull must have at least five points on each antler to make the book and six points will greatly increase your odds. Newborn to its mother who recognizes her calf by its voice. If the rack doesnt look heavy and has a thin appearance i attribute 27 inches of mass per side or 54 inches total. The inside spread must be 30 or greater between the main beams.

General conversation among the group. Pronghorn antelope 85 9 small deer 85 9 medium size deer 10 11 large deer 11 12 north american wild sheep 12 13 mountain goat 13. But you can pretty much count on a truly mature bull 5 years old being somewhere around 30 from back to brisket. The reason i wanted to figure it out was for ranging an elk with my bow. Yeah so i guess to simplify you can just say 13 from the top. This is the most numerous elk in america and most standard elk weights tend to be taken from this species.

During the summer elk eat almost constantly consuming between 4 and 7 kilograms 88 and 154 lb of vegetation daily. One extraordinary rocky mountain elk was weighed at 1100 pounds. Of course there are exceptions. Field judging rules to identify a py bull elk 1. Determining the 4 mass measurements per side is usually difficult so i use a rule of thumb. Bugling bellow escalating to squealing whistle ending with grunt.

Mine are right in the same area. I love your approachreal world. A calf weighs about 16 pounds at birth. The elk is a large animal of the ungulate order artiodactyla possessing an even number of toes on each foot similar to those of camels goats and cattleit is a ruminant species with a four chambered stomach and feeds on grasses plants leaves and bark. Rear points should extend past the ribcage when the head is up and parallel with the rest of his body. Elk are among the noisiest ungulates communicating danger quickly and identifying each other by sound.

Need average chest depth top to bottom and length of elk front of chest to tail. Southwestern bulls tend to be bigger bodied a lot of the time because their growing season is longer. A mature bull will weigh about 850 pounds while a cow will weigh about 500 pounds. Genetics maturity come into play with anatomical features so always compare a bulls body with other elk when possible. It came out that at about 30 yards the torso of a bull fits just about right between my 1st and 3rd pins meaning if it shows up bigger its likely closer to 20 yrds and smaller its likely closer to 40 yrds. Elk 24 26 moose 30 36 given those external body measurements here are some estimated vital area circle diameters that roughly correspond to the approximate heartlung target area.

I shot a bull last season with a fork on one side and a 25 spike on the other. Chirps mews and miscellaneous squeals. Do not want measurements off large bulls. He was so young that his ivories had maybe a 14 of ivory. You start by taking the first measurement at the smallest diameter between the first and second point and then so on until you have 4 measurements total per side no matter how many points tines the bull has see coreys section on scoring elk.