“We’re excited, not only for the health of our elk populations and bowhunting, but to be able to share this outstanding specimen with the public for the first time at our biennial convention,” explained Joe Bell, executive director for the Pope and Young Club.īoth organizations point to the fact that a free-ranging elk of this size, living a long life on good habitat, is just one more indicator that wildlife conservation and management is working well. The species went extinct around 8,000 years ago. A trophy-class bull elk’s dead head, with antlers attached to the skull, can fetch.
This big Montana bull will hurdle over the current archery world record elk, which scored 412-1/8 inches, and was taken in Arizona in 2005. Around 400,000 years ago, the Irish Elk ( Megaloceros giganteus) roamed Pleistocene Europe and Asia. Hunting and gathering sheds has more than mere sporting appeal. Louis, Missouri, where this exceptional animal will be displayed and honored. This will take place just prior to Pope and Young Club’s Biennial Convention and Big Game Awards Ceremony April 5-8, 2017, in St. Its range extended across Eurasia during the Pleistocene, from Ireland to Lake Baikal in Siberia.
The last step in the process, in order to obtain an official score for Pope and Young Club world record status, is to have the antlers panel scored by a group of highly qualified P&Y and B&C measurers. The Irish elk stood about 2. Former World Record Typical Plute Bull Elk Antlers Sold at Auction for 121,000 Below are excerpts about the Plute Bull taken from Greatest Elk The Complete Historical and Illustrated Record of North America’s Biggest Elk composed by Roger Selner, our record-book expert. The Irish elk ( Megaloceros giganteus ), 1 2 also called the giant deer or Irish deer, is an extinct species of deer in the genus Megaloceros and is one of the largest deer that ever lived.
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