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This is the one bull on this list that never was a world record. Status: Almost, so-close P&Y non-typical world record.Status: Current P&Y non-typical world recordĦ) The Clay Heuett Bull No bow-killed bull elk has ever come closer to becoming a P&Y world record.5) The Grandpa Bull Nick Franklin arrowed the current P&Y non-typical world record in 2003. It was declared a world-record typical elk and retained that status for over three decades. The world-class typical remained in the Crested Butte area for years until it was officially scored by a B&C measurer in 1961. Local legend has it that Plute eventually traded the antlers to a saloon owner to pay off a bar tab. So, Plute hiked back up into Dark Canyon and hauled out a monstrous set of horns. But when he bragged about the size of the rack to his buddies, they wanted proof. John Plute was no exception, so when he killed a whopper bull near Crested Butte in 1899, he left the antlers with the carcass and packed out the meat. Status: Former B&C typical world recordĬolorado miners in the 19th century didn’t shoot elk for the record book they shot them to survive.4) The John Plute Bull John Plute’s famous Dark Canyon bull was the B&C typical world record for more than 30 years.

After certifying a fair-chase affidavit, the club declared the Winters’ bull the new world record, which stands today. He followed the truck into a parking lot and eventually bought the largest typical elk antlers ever recorded by the B&C. Just before Winters’ death in 1994, he gave the antlers to his sister, who was transporting them, along with a washer-dryer set, in the back of her pickup truck in 1995 when antler buyer Alan Ellsworth spotted the tremendous rack. Winters showed the rack to friends and fellow elk nuts, and then he hung it in his garage where it stayed for nearly three decades.

Status: Current B&C typical world recordĪlonzo Winters was hunting Arizona’s White Mountains in the fall of 1968 when he dropped the hammer on this incredible bull with a Savage Model 99.

Status: Former B&C non-typical world recordģ) The Alonzo Winters Bull Shot in 1968, the current world-record typical elk rack was almost lost to history.

2) The Revelstoke Mystery Bull This monster non-typical bull was found in Canada in 1994. But Boone & Crockett declared the monster the new non-typical world record in 2008. Rumors circulated, as they often do, that the web-antlered bull, which grossed over 500 inches, was a game-farm escapee or somehow illegitimate. Finally back in the field, Austad and his guide were able get the bull to within 180 yards, and the hunter’s second-chance shot flew true. Even worse, Austad got carbon-monoxide poisoning from his camp trailer and had to miss half a month of hunting as he recovered. Austad hunted the bull for nearly two weeks before getting a shot. Austad, who bought a Governor’s Tag for six figures, hired a guide who found and kept track of the bull for months. The Spider Bull was well-known to elk fanatics, but Denny Austad seemed destined to tag the Utah giant.

Status: Current B&C non-typical world record elk.

1) The Spider Bull Denny Austad took the current B&C word-record non-typical bull in 2008. All but one is or was a world-record bull, and all but one goes over, or way over, 400 inches. Here are the top one or two bulls ever taken in each world-record elk category.

And the bulls below should provide plenty of fantasy fodder. Well, if you’re going to dream, you may as well dream big. We’re in the heart of another elk season, and hunters are stalking the mountains and backcountry looking to fill their tags-and daydreaming about lovesick bulls screaming their way into bow or gun range.