View Poll Results: What size would an elk have to be for you to mount it?
Meat Hunter; I don't mount anything
7
16.28%
Any bowkill is a trophy and gets mounted
6
13.95%
270-299"
3
6.98%
300" or bigger
11
25.58%
330" or bigger
4
9.30%
350" or bigger
3
6.98%
if it's bigger than my current best it gets mounted
9
20.93%
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At what point do you mount it?
10-07-2009, 06:36 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Trempealeau, WI
Posts: 1,138
If I'm shooting something with horns on its head its because it is something I'm proud of and wouldn't shoot it if I wasn't planning on mounting it. Goes for every antlered animal I shoot. Helps that I am a taxidermist and can afford it. WCL
10-07-2009, 06:45 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location:
Posts: 120
I have harvested a few bulls in my lifetime. None have been shoulder mounted. Just plaques. My first mount will be 300-320. Then the next would have to be 330-340. Just a matter of time and I am hoping it will happen. Not looking forward to paying for it but the wife knows already what the first one will be ahead of time.
Same with deer. I have a mount and will not mount another until it is bigger than the one I already have.
Same with deer. I have a mount and will not mount another until it is bigger than the one I already have.
10-08-2009, 09:30 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Wright, WY
Posts: 1,281
For a shoulder mount above 300. I usually give the antlers to my friends dad to make things out of. Although my first elk bull with the bow will probably get a plaque or euro mount.
Another situation would be a deformed interesting looking animal.
Another situation would be a deformed interesting looking animal.
10-08-2009, 10:12 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Illinois
Posts: 3,558
Agreed. If I don't have enough respect for the animal to have it mounted then I don't shoot it. This is why god made does and cows.
10-08-2009, 10:28 AM
#8
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
That's kinda how I think, why shoot a bull or a buck if I'm not going to mount it? at least when I can take a doe/cow in it's place. Everyone around me wants me to take more animals, especially these decent/good sized animals I pass on. I am getting a lil tired of getting skunked on hunts though. I'm doing what I can though, least I think so, I'm only putting in for/hunting quality areas alledgedly. Maybe I should just relax a bit more and see what happens.
I've been on a few "quality" hunts lately, where all my research suggests its a great season/area, then you get there and people are saying, or the unit next to this is great..... or ya this season is the rut, but I like the 1st season....
I guess with time, more experience, and continuing to hunt quality units, I should be able to take a trophy at some point.
I've been on a few "quality" hunts lately, where all my research suggests its a great season/area, then you get there and people are saying, or the unit next to this is great..... or ya this season is the rut, but I like the 1st season....
I guess with time, more experience, and continuing to hunt quality units, I should be able to take a trophy at some point.
10-08-2009, 10:48 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,320
That's kinda how I think, why shoot a bull or a buck if I'm not going to mount it? at least when I can take a doe/cow in it's place. Everyone around me wants me to take more animals, especially these decent/good sized animals I pass on. I am getting a lil tired of getting skunked on hunts though. I'm doing what I can though, least I think so, I'm only putting in for/hunting quality areas alledgedly. Maybe I should just relax a bit more and see what happens.
I've been on a few "quality" hunts lately, where all my research suggests its a great season/area, then you get there and people are saying, or the unit next to this is great..... or ya this season is the rut, but I like the 1st season....
I guess with time, more experience, and continuing to hunt quality units, I should be able to take a trophy at some point.
I've been on a few "quality" hunts lately, where all my research suggests its a great season/area, then you get there and people are saying, or the unit next to this is great..... or ya this season is the rut, but I like the 1st season....
I guess with time, more experience, and continuing to hunt quality units, I should be able to take a trophy at some point.
10-08-2009, 11:29 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: IL
Posts: 6,575
skb:
I apply/build pts on CO, hunted back in college for elk 2 years, but have not since, considering an archery mule deer hunt in 2010 though.
Otherwise I'm just building pts, mule deer is really all I look to CO for currently, I would like to pursue sheep, moose, and goat there, but have yet to apply/build pts for any, as they require paper applications and the money up front.
When I hunted elk, it was rifle, OTC, once near Vail, the other time near Gunnison.
I believe the mule deer areas I'm looking towards are on the western slope, but I really haven't dove into the research aside from building pts for deer.
I apply/build pts on CO, hunted back in college for elk 2 years, but have not since, considering an archery mule deer hunt in 2010 though.
Otherwise I'm just building pts, mule deer is really all I look to CO for currently, I would like to pursue sheep, moose, and goat there, but have yet to apply/build pts for any, as they require paper applications and the money up front.
When I hunted elk, it was rifle, OTC, once near Vail, the other time near Gunnison.
I believe the mule deer areas I'm looking towards are on the western slope, but I really haven't dove into the research aside from building pts for deer.