You can only kill one next year

[SaskHunter]

Pronghorn all day long

x2! I'm a pronghorn sl*t!!!

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

Gross or net?

 

[Addicting]

The poll lets you choose all three so I did.

 

[npaden]

The poll is slightly slanted toward elk from a B&C minimum perspective. 80" and 190" are B&C minimum for pronghorn and mule deer. B&C minimum for elk is 360" so in theory the 375" elk is 4% above minimum book where the other 2 are at the exact minimum.

EDIT - Nevermind - it is slanted toward mule deer. 180" is minimum and so the 190" mule deer is 6% above minimum.

 

[Papsqueeg]

Elk then muley does not have to be that big just legal.

 

[MTLabrador]

I love mule deer, but I’ll take a big bull elk every time. Doesn’t have to be even close to 375 either.

 

[BirdManMike]

Meh-lk will let me take the next season off from big game hunting from having more meat so I pick that.

 

[Doublecluck]

Whichever ones closer to the road. I’d take the elk if It didn’t involve wrestling grizzly bears or 1500 vertical ft gains in 3/4 of a mile to get it out. A 80” lope but only if it required jumping at least 1 corner. The mule deer but it’s gotta be trashy, I’d take a trashy 190” mule over a 375 typical bull. I’m going with the mule deer.

 

[Elkoholic]

ELK.

 

[brockel]

Give me the perfect typical 190” mule deer every time

 

[fulldraw]

Elk for sure.

 

[Bob-WY]

Since we hunt to fill the freezer, gotta go with elk

 

[OntarioHunter]

50" kudu. These didn't quite make it.

 

[brocksw]

I love big muley bucks and I cannot lie

 

[howl]

Only one of those will fill my freezer.

 

[brocksw]

Give me the perfect typical 190” mule deer every time

Ooooweeeee! Gets me excited just thinking about it!

 

[rogerthat]

Oh I have been through this before. Trick question. I’m shooting the elk or antelope because in Montana where I hunt if you see a 190 mule deer it’s a fwp decoy and you’re fixing to go to jail.

 

[FREAK]

Before they go extinct in Montana, I’d take a 190” MD over the other options.

I like the choices, feel like they would all be equivalent trophies, a question I’ve pondered; what is the equivalent of a 320” bull for MD? Maybe 165? Those are even unicorns in Montana.

 

[bigsky2]

Before they go extinct in Montana, I’d take a 190” MD over the other options.

I like the choices, feel like they would all be equivalent trophies, a question I’ve pondered; what is the equivalent of a 320” bull for MD? Maybe 165? Those are even unicorns in Montana.

155"

 

[npaden]

Before they go extinct in Montana, I’d take a 190” MD over the other options.

I like the choices, feel like they would all be equivalent trophies, a question I’ve pondered; what is the equivalent of a 320” bull for MD? Maybe 165? Those are even unicorns in Montana.

Strictly based on % of B&C minimum, a 160" mule deer would be the equivalent of a 320" elk. Both are 89% of the minimum.

89% of the minimum for pronghorn would be a 71" buck and that seems below what I would think as an equivalent.

Given the choice of a 320" elk or a 160" mule deer or a 71" pronghorn I would be shooting the elk for sure.