Pending New World Record Elk Taken in Utah

I just got off the phone with the stepson of the Outfitter that shot the probable new world record elk in Utah. The bull's unofficial gross score in the field was just over 500 B&C. Denny Austad took the bull and was the 2008 Utah Statewide Conservation tag, more commonly known as the Governor’s Tag. This bull was a massive 9x14, with main beams of 49 inches and over 133 inches of mass. He unofficially nets 488! This bull became know as the Spider Bull and if you look at this rack you can guess why.

The bull was taken with Mossback Guide and Outfitters owned by Doyle Moss. Amazingly the outfitter had footage of this bull last year and they estimated him at 350. In one year this bull put on 150 inches of points.

Sounds like Denny earned this bull spending 12 straight days in the field searching for this brute. Another amazing point of this story is he actually missed this bull on the 12 day. One of Doyle’s guides saw this bull over 8 miles away from where Denny took the shot. Denny came back and they were able to locate the bull and took him on the 13th day of his hunt. Congratulations Denny and Team Mossback!