My Wife's Bull....A Special One!
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From: tseward
03-Oct-14
Archery elk season 2014 was truly one to remember, as my wife took her 4th elk in 5 years of elk hunting this season. To top it all off, the elk gods granted her a special trophy for her 40th birthday...a 6x2 non-typical with a club drop tine! She is over the moon excited to have taken such a spectacular and rare bull, and I thought some of you might appreciate it as well.
Shot with 40# Bowtech HeartBreaker, with weighted (450 gr.) GoldTips with Steel Force heads @ 30 yds.
From: Jack Harris
03-Oct-14
Nice pair of trophies you got there! Congratulations! Very cool bull - nice to see you can bring down a giant with only 40#.
From: idacurt
03-Oct-14
That's awesome,congrats!
From: tseward
03-Oct-14
Another view of "Club Bull"
From: Straight Shooter
03-Oct-14
Awesome, congrats! That's beauty and the bull isn't bad either!
DJ
From: Rex Featherlin
03-Oct-14
Congratulations to ya both!!!! Reminds me of my buddy's bull from this year.
From: HockeyDad
03-Oct-14
Awesome - your wife found the unicorn (well 1/2 unicorn I guess)!
That is a special bull for sure, congrats.
From: SDHNTR(home)
03-Oct-14
That's awesome! I see two trophies there. Congrats on both!
From: cityhunter
03-Oct-14
That is a awesome bull ! Congrats to both of u !!!
From: sureshot
03-Oct-14
Congratulations! Definitely a unique bull and nothing better than a hunting wife.
From: kentuckbowhnter
03-Oct-14
super nice, I would love to kill a club bull like that some day.
From: orionsbrother
03-Oct-14
Great job!
From: Matt Dorram
03-Oct-14
Great Job! I saw two bulls similar to yours I thought about killing them but was too deep in the wilderness for anything but a giant.
Congratulations!
From: Destroyer350
03-Oct-14
Congrats!! Very unique looking bull!
From: hunt'n addict
03-Oct-14
Congratulations to her! Very unique bull.
From: FLGator
03-Oct-14
Congratulations!
From: elkmtngear
03-Oct-14
Love the freak bulls! Congrats to your Wife, great job!
Best of Luck Jeff
From: Eric B.
03-Oct-14
She have a sister ? Major congrats to the both of you !
From: TD
03-Oct-14
Ya did help her pack out didn't ya???? heheheheh..
Congrats on several levels, looks like a great hunt and a very unique bull. Pretty cool.
From: trkyslr
03-Oct-14
Congrats on the success! Good times
From: t-roy
03-Oct-14
Congrats on a very unique trophy!
From: drycreek
03-Oct-14
Congrats to both of you ! Nice bull !
From: writer
04-Oct-14
Tough life being, you, huh, T?
I couldn't tell, was she at all happy. :-)
Great memories. Congrats to you both.
From: 'Ike' (Phone)
04-Oct-14
Great Bull, very cool...
From: Crockrj
04-Oct-14
Awesome! Congrats to the both of you.
From: RonG
04-Oct-14
Awesome bull, and pictures. Love birthday bulls, i've had three, it's so fun! Love the huge smiles too!
From: tseward
07-Oct-14
Thanks everyone for all the positive comments! My wife has enjoyed being a part of Bowsite for once, and is proud to be a hunter! I am truly blessed to have the support of a hunting wife, and look forward each year to having a great hunting partner to spend time with afield...
Troy
From: JLS
07-Oct-14
Love the second picture! Congratulations to your better half.
From: Blue Buck III
07-Oct-14
Congrats to both you!! My wife is my hunting partner so I know how special it can be.
From: ki-ke
07-Oct-14
You are a blessed man....
From: midwest
07-Oct-14
Congrats to your wife on the bull and congrats to you on the wife! You are truly blessed!
From: Bowme2
07-Oct-14
Very nice! Congratulations to you and your wife, cool bull!
From: Russell
08-Oct-14
Congrats to both of you. The first picture is worthy of being professionally framed.
You're a lucky man.
Thanks for sharing.
From: ridgerunnerron
08-Oct-14
4th elk in 5 yrs! Wow! Congrats also to the both of you! Diff, neat special bull! And a great wife and hunting partner!
From: GhostBird
08-Oct-14
Congratulations!!! very nice.
From: otcWill
08-Oct-14
Great bull! Congrats
From: HUNT MAN
08-Oct-14
Very nice. Congrats to all involved. HUNT
From: Bear Track
08-Oct-14
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Troy, you are blessed as I am. My best hunting partner is my lady too.
From: ohiohunter
08-Oct-14
Thats awesome. I didn't draw, but my girlfriend did. This will be her first hunt ever. Its a rifle hunt but I think I'm more excited for this hunt than one of my own.
From: Medicinemann
09-Oct-14
Outstanding!!
It almost looks like the drop time was designed to hold the head upright for the pictures!!
From: CCOVEY
09-Oct-14
Congrats to both of you! Awesome looking animal.
From: Callingalldeer
09-Oct-14
congrats,both of you are blessed.
From: loesshillsarcher
09-Oct-14
Congrats!
From: Fuzzy
09-Oct-14
after looking a couple times, I noticed there's an elk in those pictures! :-)
congratulations, you are a lucky man
From: SteveB
09-Oct-14
Awesome!! Congrats on a great bull and ever better memories!!
From: Brotsky
09-Oct-14
Congrats to you and your wife!
Your wife's idea of "clubbing" is certainly different than my wife's. Ha!
From: CurveBow
09-Oct-14
Congratulations! It seems fairly common for elk to have antlers come off the skull at odd angles. I can't explain why, but a friend killed a 5x1 and my son found a skull that was a smaller 4x1. Both of these bulls were from the same area and could have been related in a genetic tree.
Awesome bull though!
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From: weekender21
09-Oct-14
Congrats!
From: tseward
10-Oct-14
When I took this bull to the taxidermist, I asked him if this was a genetic condition or if he felt that the bull had somehow damaged or broke his skull plate, allowing the pedicle to slip down the side of his head toward his left eye....the taxidermist seemed to believe that these conditions were a result of a break and not genetic. I haven't seen the skull once yet after caping, so I cannot assess if there was injury to the skull or not. One thing to note, was that this bull had almost zero fat and its body size was fairly small, leading me to believe that he perhaps had a tough winter while possibly trying to recover from injury last fall. I am looking forward to seeing the skull plate and will follow up with any observations.
Do any of you have any experience with freak antlers or misplaced/displaced pedicles, and if you could assess whether it was a genetic malformation or from an injury?
Troy
From: Russell
10-Oct-14
I've read leg injuries often result in the opposite antler's deformation.
Could explain this animal’s asymmetrical antler growth.
From: RonG
16-Oct-14
I think he broke his pedicle, probably fighting with another bull. It's fairly common, sometimes the antler will grow back at 90 degree angle at the base and from a distance look somewhat normal. Other times they end up all funky and cool.
Here is a pic of a bull my wife shot with a broken pedicle, it was starting to heel, but the bone had been completely snapped. The next year it would probably grow back at least somewhat funky.
From: Wood
16-Oct-14
Absolutely awesome!
From: master guide
16-Oct-14
In the late 70s thru the 80 we guided elk hunters on a famous ranch in new mexico . At the start there was a old bull with a club horn on the right side that we tried to take. Over the years many bulls began to show this trait. All the bulls had this problem on the right side, and it always looked like an injury when they were caped out. Then this genetic problem faded away by the 90s. Very interesting stuff for the die hard elk hunters out there.
