havgunwilltravel
Active member
Hi guys,
I don't normally post these discussion type threads, but i have wondered for a while now about Utah's Spyder bull. I can't really find any answers to what i am searching for, so thought the HT members might have some information.
Has there ever been cast antlers, or past video, photographs or trail cam pics of this bull prior to the season it was harvested? I would assume a bull that pushed out to near on 500 B & C points was above 400 for maybe 2-3 years? Normally a lot of these monster bulls are tracked pretty heavily and followed from summer feeding grounds to hunting seasons and if they survive down on the winter range where their cast antlers are eagerly sought, especially the giant bulls.
Surely this monster bull couldn't have escaped hunter attention for all these years, especially with such a unique set of antlers, which i assume he probably had similar configuration or close to it over the last couple of sets and would have been easily identifiable.
I see on instagram a guy taking pics of massive elk in an elk farm and he commented on it being the next spyder bull, it had similar antler configuration.
Was the general consensus on this bull is he might have been an escapee from an elk farm or is it possible he slipped under the radar for all those years. I've watched the mossback dvd a few times on this bull and looking at how visual and how easily videod he was in velvet, i am surprised there was no footage by them of him prior to the year he was taken. Its not very often 500 in bulls just turn up. No doubt he was taken in the wild, i'm just interested to hear if anybody knows a bit more.
Sorry its an old subject, but be good to hear more from guys better informed then myself.
Thanks
hgwt
I don't normally post these discussion type threads, but i have wondered for a while now about Utah's Spyder bull. I can't really find any answers to what i am searching for, so thought the HT members might have some information.
Has there ever been cast antlers, or past video, photographs or trail cam pics of this bull prior to the season it was harvested? I would assume a bull that pushed out to near on 500 B & C points was above 400 for maybe 2-3 years? Normally a lot of these monster bulls are tracked pretty heavily and followed from summer feeding grounds to hunting seasons and if they survive down on the winter range where their cast antlers are eagerly sought, especially the giant bulls.
Surely this monster bull couldn't have escaped hunter attention for all these years, especially with such a unique set of antlers, which i assume he probably had similar configuration or close to it over the last couple of sets and would have been easily identifiable.
I see on instagram a guy taking pics of massive elk in an elk farm and he commented on it being the next spyder bull, it had similar antler configuration.
Was the general consensus on this bull is he might have been an escapee from an elk farm or is it possible he slipped under the radar for all those years. I've watched the mossback dvd a few times on this bull and looking at how visual and how easily videod he was in velvet, i am surprised there was no footage by them of him prior to the year he was taken. Its not very often 500 in bulls just turn up. No doubt he was taken in the wild, i'm just interested to hear if anybody knows a bit more.
Sorry its an old subject, but be good to hear more from guys better informed then myself.
Thanks
hgwt