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Biggest bull elk ever shot1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() He’s also had previous hunts through the years in South Dakota, Wyoming, New Mexico and Colorado, but is still waiting for an opportunity to hunt in Arizona and Utah. ![]() It was his second elk hunt of the year, having shot a “solid 300 class bull” at a hunt in Winifred, Mont. “I had no idea that Nevada had mountain ranges like I hunted in,” Reetz said. He said hunting elk has been his passion for the past 25 years and has been waiting for this opportunity. 10 by Montana bowhunter Steve Felix on public land in Powder River County was scored a 430 by the Boone and Crockett Club and Pope & Young Club, the groups that have. ![]() “They thought it was probably at least 8 years old,” Reetz said. Getting to the bull was the next challenge - another hour hike, followed by six hours of quartering and bringing the elk down the mountain. “This elk was so far away from anything,” Reetz said, recalling it was resting for about 45 minutes before it got up and started moving and he was able to take the shot. The rack itself is 56 inches long, he said, with an inside spread of 46 inches. But he got the shot and, while he elected to donate the meat, he will have a massive rack as a memento. At that vantage, Reetz said, he was about 600 yards away with a canyon separating him from the elk. Getting the shot required a three-and-a-half hour climb up 3,000 feet. According to the Star Tribune, t he Boone and Crockett Club has formally recognized Lupiens massive bull elk, shot near her Lancaster home over the summer, as the second-largest Minnesota elk in the books. When they spotted the elk it was about 5 miles away. Minnesota hunter Lacey Lupien has officially broken a state record, taking the second-largest bull elk ever shot in the state. The outfitter finally caught sight of it at the top of a mountain on the sixth day of his hunt. “They’d watched this bull for several years and it kind of disappeared,” Reetz said. While he wasn’t looking for a specific size, he said the mammoth animal had been spotted by the outfitter before. With help from Timberline Outfitters as a guide, Reetz said this was by far the biggest bull spotted during the hunt. Reetz said even after applying for a Nevada hunting tag for 17 years, as a nonresident his chance of being drawn for one was about 1%. “This was a dream hunt, and a dream elk, and I worked for it,” he said. That’s a combined inch measurement for the rack. It was the sixth day of his seven-day hunt near Ely. Jamie Reetz, 46, of Webster, S.D., shot a green-scored 387-inch elk on Nov. A 17-year quest to hunt elk in Nevada recently came true for an area hunter. ![]()
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