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A bull elk taken in September on Utah’s Fishlake National Forest has been confirmed by the Boone and Crockett Club as a world record for nontypical antlers.
Denny Austad of Ammon, Idaho, connected after a 13-day hunt in the Monroe Mountain District of south-central Utah. The unusual rack had a final score of 478-5/8 inches, exceeding the previous record for a hunter-taken animal, 450-6/8, taken in Apache County, Ariz., in 1998.
A nontypical elk measuring 465-2/8 was found dead and frozen in Upper Arrow Lake, British Columbia, in 1994.
Austad’s bull has nine points on the left antler, 14 on the right. The larger antler has a base measuring more than 9 inches.
