What type of elk gets the biggest antlers in the US and where? Can I go for 12K?

[26Reload]

Here's a big one.....

.....if that's big enough for ya...dig deep in that wallet......it's gonna need to be deep..

 

[lancetkenyon]

I know CO has a few private ranches that produce monsters. I have no idea if $12k is even in the ballpark though. A buddy of mine went last year and killed a 439" 8x8.

Guided Colorado Elk Hunts

Severson Outfitters offers guaranteed Colorado Elk Hunts for trophy bulls ranging from 300 inches to 500 inches, with meals and lodging included.

www.seversonoutfitters.com

 

[derrickman]

Chama Land and Cattle.

 

[Slick8]

For that money and desire I'd think about broad mouth canyon ranch in Utah if you're not opposed to a high fence.

IMO, 12k will get you a chance at a big elk but not a great chance at over 350.

 

[26Reload]

12k get ya a good roosevelt..sw oregon coast....leased land hunts....spooncreek outfitters....
I think the previous bull was
'"just a touch outside"......

 

[Ucsdryder]

I'd rather shoot a 112" barely legal 3 point with a 5" brow in Colorado than a 490" bull on a game farm. And I'd be a hell of a lot more proud.

 

[26Reload]

The ranch that bull came from is over 20000 acres.....several days the hunters never saw any elk....
These guys have hunted the coastal elk...they know how to hunt...they are killers.....

 

[WeiserBucks]

I'd rather shoot a 112" barely legal 3 point with a 5" brow in Colorado than a 490" bull on a game farm. And I'd be a hell of a lot more proud.

This, all day.

 

[doug2080]

I'd rather shoot a 112" barely legal 3 point with a 5" brow in Colorado than a 490" bull on a game farm. And I'd be a hell of a lot more proud.

Agreed! Shooting high fenced anything is like shooting cattle, wouldn't feel as if I accomplished anything. Shooting fish in a barrel comes to mind when I think about high fence.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Agreed! Shooting high fenced anything is like shooting cattle, wouldn't feel as if I accomplished anything. Shooting fish in a barrel comes to mind when I think about high fence.

i grew up on a cattle ranch and every time I think of high fence, whether for elk or Africa, I think of putting a blind up next to the water trough and shooting one of my dads polled Hereford bulls.

 

[26Reload]

blind up next to the water trough and shooting one of my dads polled Hereford bulls.

Kind of like whitetail hunting in many places.....

 

[Ucsdryder]

Kind of like whitetail hunting in many places.....

Those are over piles of corn! Way different.

 

[the blur]

If you google TX hunting. It's all over feeders. Even free-range mule deer, it's over feeders. It's standard for TX, and acceptable.
If you want to eat the Elk, you're not going out of the country.
I hunted the GILA, no Elk.

They say high fenced over 5000 acres is equal to free range.
100% free range to me is no fence, no feeders.

Everyone has their own thoughts.

 

[kaseyfied]

Chama Land & Cattle.

For 12k hahaha.. not a chance ce