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Another Utah State Record Elk?!

October 5th, 2007 David King - King's Outdoor World

There have been some crazy rumors going around lately of a possible 450 or even 460 bull elk from Utah taken recently. I haven’t been able to dig up anything yet to verify that any of this is true. Sure we have the monster archery elk taken by Jimmy Ryan that I posted on early that unofficially goes 443 gross and 427 net non-typical P&Y .

However, I may have found the bull that might be mistaken as the claimed 460, 450 or even 441 gross bull that I have seen in emails going around. The reason I say this is photos of this bull have been included with the emails claiming these numbers.

This monster bull elk from Utah was taken with a rifle and could easily take over the state record non-typical spot for rifle (currently at 412 net).

This huge bull was taken by Darrell Snedeger. The nice thing about it, Darrell was just hunting with some family when he came across this massive elk and shot it at just 14 yards!

So how big is this bull you say? Darrell has been fairly quiet about his bull so far until he has been able to verify a solid “green” score. So far he has had three different people look at it and score it. One of them being an official Boone & Crockett scorer. Of course we have to wait until mid November before the 60 day drying period is up, but the green score stands at 434 gross and 424 net non-typical.

This bull is a 7×7 point. It has a small point on the right side on the back beam. The left side carries a third brow tine. Total there are about 19 inches of abnormal points. What’s beautiful is this elk also scores 404 net typical as well even after all the deductions.

This bull isn’t too far off the net score of the Jimmy Ryan/Mossback archery bull - a 424 net compared to a 427 net…and these are both green, unofficial scores. And the similarity continues as they both have big typical frames with a third brow tine on one side. Of course nothing is going to come close to the Ryan/Mossback bull in terms of archery record for the state, and the way things look (but you never know what is still out there or what could still get knocked down) the Darrell Snedeger bull could be the state record non-typical for the rifle category…

…but with only a few inches difference, it will be interesting to see come November how the official scores come in and who claims the biggest non-typical for the state of Utah regardless of weapon.

Yeah…yeah…where are some pics you say? Everyone complains about the photos…where are the photos. Nobody believes anybody until there are photos to prove it.

Darrell Snedeger’s potential record bull will be seen first in a future issue of Hunting Illustrated Magazine, where you will see some great photos of this elk.

Here is a teaser pic…

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