You standing next to it has nothing to do with it... You posted the pictures of it in the pick up... Al you have to do is to look at the head. The length of the head tells you everything you need to no...

Look at the length of this head... I bet it is several inches longer than your and this is a 3 year old cow.





This is another 3 year old



I will tell you what post up a picture of the elk head and hide in the back of the truck and let others make the judgement.. And your first elk always looks like a horse - cause normally anything after a calf is...

And again I am not down playing your harvest it was a good and that young meat should have been excellent eating.