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General Curiosity question for elk farmers

Joined Apr 2009
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cental Pennsylvania
I hunt elk in the national forest mountains of colorado, Its a yearly family traditon. I have gone for 8 years in a row, and have been blessed to harvest 6 elk. My question is, What does a baby bull elk (from the privious spring) look like in the fall? I see very few elk and never herds of them, just little groups of 3-5, and i have never really identified what a baby bull looks like. I have shot a calf before but it was not really small and it was a female. Do they have little "buttons" or do they grow spikes as 7 month old calves? I have seen spike bulls, but never a "button bull". Sound silly but i am just very curious. Thanks.
 
Bull calves from last year are just starting to get bumps on there heads on our farm from last calving season.
 
My bull calves have not started to grow yet but I can hardly wait. I have calves from Six Pack 504 SCI and a young bull called Hogan a 440 SCI.
 
Jack it is fun to think about how the calves will do. we have calves out of Challenger 600+ @6, cletis 473@3, wilber 376 Typical @2 and jethro lll (cletis sire).
 
Wow there is a bull that goes 600"!! that is incredible, I will have to do a search for the bull Challenger and see if there is a pic of him anywhere online. Thank you for answering my question guys.
 
Here is a pic of challanger at 6. He has more mass than any bull i have ever seen. after we cut his antlers we weighed them out at 72 pounds. he is a monster.
 

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Wow, Challenger is beautiful, I though when you said about a 600" bull that he would be just points everywhere with no real nice frame, but I am wrong, that bull is beautiful. Thank you so much for the pic.