40”+ shiras photos

[Ridgerunner]

Here’s my bull was right at 40”. Had everything I wanted.

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[TBossHSauce]

43.5" Colorado Bull

 

[Jon Boy]

I would venture that most mature bulls have a 40" or greater spread.

That’s kind of where I’m at. I know what big big Shiras look like but my unit just isn’t known for giants. I want to be familiar with what a mature bull looks like and not pass a good bull. Unfortunately there won’t be a ton of looking them over pre season as they will be coming from thick timber in remote country before dropping into the rut zones.

 

[Jon Boy]

Thanks for all the photos fellas! Keep em coming!

 

[johnnycake]

Here's another shiras bull from years ago. This one i didn't hear if it got killed that fall, but I would guess he was right around 40". He was a younger bull that year, with the potential to be a monster in a few more if he survived. But there are very few shiras tags where he isn't a shooter bull.

 

[cnelk]

45" Colorado

 

[buffybr]

My 40" Shiras

My 50" Shiras

 

[tkhuntsman]

this bull was killed by a hunter about 2 weeks after the photo he was 48"

 

[tkhuntsman]

This bull was a little over 46" wide

 

[idahodave]

46”…and broke off or he’d have made 50 I think.

 

[idahodave]

Same bull..

 

[idahodave]

44” bull last year

 

[idahodave]

43” bull from a couple of years ago….

 

[idahodave]

A legit 50” bull from last year I couldn’t quite get my guy on. My wife has the tag this year though, so I’m hoping he made it through the winter.

 

[sodaksooner]

Don't have a better pic...lol, but this is the B&C World record shot by Bobby Hebert in 2015. It was almost dark so pics were bad, but he was a beast. He shot him a few weeks after we saw it. Don't know what his spread was off the top of my head but he was something else. I believe it was a Governors tag. He had a paid scout that was parked at the same trailhead we were using. Still shot it with Trad equipment. We actually saw more moose on that hunt than we saw elk. We hunted the same drainage for elk the next year and it was much the same.

 

[208Logan]

Like many have said I wouldn't get too worried about width. Find what you like. This was my Idaho Shiras and he was only 36 wide but there was no way I was passing up a bull with quad brow tines on both sides.

 

[mike.adams.467]

This one is 52 1/2”.

 

[Ikmclean]

44 inch, scored 143 3/8

 

[5MilesBack]

I was elk hunting one day and saw this down in a bottom. Thought it was a shed, and was heading down to grab it. Then it moved. The bull was just laying down in the tall grass. I wish he would have raised his entire head. That other paddle has to be some ways off on his left side. Big paddle.

 

[Greenringer]

53” Wyoming bull