MN Bull Elk Found...

[sticknstring]

Can anyone confirm validity of this? What a find!

The information I have on this, is that this elk was found hung up in fence upside down, on state land with it's antlers embedded into the ground. A muzzleloader hunter found it, and was able to help set it free. He found it a week later still a live, but a few days later it had died. He then turned it in to the game warden, who then returned it to him a week later. It has a "green" net score of 456 4/8 NT and gross 475 5/8 NT.

[hoppe56307]

All I can say is WOW.

[HooknHorns]

Wow, That thing is huge. Probally wont be too long before its all over the net.

[bobbers_down]

Wow!

[hoytshooter]

Sticknstring thats is the same info i got. I was told it was by caribou,mn.

[jwmiller33]

wow that thing is a monster!!!!

[mrklean]

dang what a monster. How is the elk population doin up north?

[DonBo]

The story is true, I believe it was somewhere near Warroad. The guys that found it are buddies of a guy who works with my wife. I have photos from when it was still stuck, before they freed it. (not pretty)

[paceman]

Good Lord what a beast!

[ac777]

wow, that is crazy awesome.

[Archerysniper]

SHHHHH don't tell anyone otherwise everyone will be comeing here for all our elk tags.

[mrklean]

ha do they even issue non-res elk tags in mn?

[HooknHorns]

Does anybody know how that would rank in Boone and Crockett. I know world record was broke last year for non typ at 478net which beat the old score by at least a 13 inches if I read it right.

[ANYFISH2]

WOW!!

[leech~~]

Talk about Gross score, that thing must have mated with a Moose!

[TonkaBass]

Insane!

[Big-Al]

With as closely as the Minnesota elk herds are monitored I doubt that this bad boy would have slipped by till this size without word getting out. I am not convinced at this point that it is a Minnesota elk.

[Shoot2Kill]

With as closely as the Minnesota elk herds are monitored I doubt that this bad boy would have slipped by till this size without word getting out. I am not convinced at this point that it is a Minnesota elk.

+1.

[DonBo]

I'm tellin' ya, I know a guy who knows these guys. (I know, it sounds like a friends nieces, brother-in-laws neighbors mailman, but it ain't like that) I got pics weeks ago from this guy while it was still stuck in the ground, then a week later after they found it dead. This guy is originally from Warroad and the guys who found it are friends of his, he's know his whole life.

You can all doubt if you want, but it's a true story. Just sayin'.

[sticknstring]

I've heard it from a few sources now as well... it's true. Too bad he he had to go that way. Here's a few more...

[jerkbait]

It is true. I heard it hear in Warroad from a guy at work hear and seen the pictures of it. Like said before, it was found over by Caribou.

[Gissert]

The elk herd that frequents the Caribou area, trades back and forth across the border. That's why it may not have been seen much.

[hockeybc69]

Does anyone have a story in a local paper or anything to validate?

We all see way too often about a big buck that was taken by a brothers buddies cousin, and 90% of them turn out to be a big farse.

Awesome animal, but I am holding out on "the story" at this point.

[Effie07]

MN Elk

Infomation confirmed on another forum by site admin:

Its green score is 456 4/8 NT net. Its gross score is 475 5/8. He has 78 6/8" of mass.

He is a wild MN elk that flipped upside down jumping a barbed wire fence on state land in Northern MN. His antlers stuck in the ground and been there a couple of hours. Ryan Muirhead while muzzleloader hunting and found him, he got help to flip him back, and the elk walked away. It was25 below wind chill at this time. Two days later he went to see if it made it, but found it 600 yards away still alive. It died shortly later and was given to the Game warden who a week later gave it back to him.

[hoppe56307]

In one of the pictures i see there is a Kid with a video camera, now that would be some good footage to see.