Score estimate my first elk

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Congrats on your first bull. I’d guess 285. You mentioned he only had 3 teeth left in the front? As in, all of his upper and lower molars and pre molars were gone, with only a few lower incisors remaining? Very interesting. You have photos of his teeth and ivories?
 
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Congrats on your first bull. I’d guess 285. You mentioned he only had 3 teeth left in the front? As in, all of his upper and lower molars and pre molars were gone, with only a few lower incisors remaining? Very interesting. You have photos of his teeth and ivories?
Uh let me check and see if I have pictures even the guy that helped pack it out with me said he's never seen antler bases this far off the skull when we caped it out. I hope I have pictures or he does. Will update if I do!
 
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Uh let me check and see if I have pictures even the guy that helped pack it out with me said he's never seen antler bases this far off the skull when we caped it out. I hope I have pictures or he does. Will update if I do!
Hopefully he's got a few pictures of his teeth, they seemed amazed by it, I was just lost in the moment to be honest
 

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crich

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Nice bull. First day of your first hunt huh!? I Imagine youll be back out next year... 😄 my guess is around the 290" range.
 

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Great bull. I'm with the crowd in guessing from the pictures that he will score in the 280 - 300 range.
 
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Great bull. I'm with the crowd in guessing from the pictures that he will score in the 280 - 300 range.
That's great that everyone's all within the same range, when I find out I will be sure to update. Any elk for me would have been a trophy, but he decided to walk by first...at 37 yards. What's crazy is this is the first elk I seen ever in my life (in person) while hunting 🤣 only seen 1 other when I was visiting Arizona driving by lol
I'm seeing around 280, knowing a few measurements would go a long ways.


Great bull either way, I wouldn't get wrapped up in the numbers.
Nope I would have been happy with just the experience. I have more pictures of the mountains and views then I do of the elk. I learned alot that week and grateful for every bit of it, trophy or not.
 
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