There is a lot of matter your arrow or bullet must travel through to even reach the vitalsand it still must penetrate them to make the kill. Handy reference for mature bull elk measurements and trophy identification.
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Bull elk body measurements. Scaled 2d drawings and. 3dm ft 3dm m obj. Dwg ft dwg m svg. Thats a lot of antler. Select an item on the right to compare relative dimensions to elk. So if youre going to hold 12 inches high id be aiming about 10 below the withers hoping to hit about 13 or the way up from the bottom of the chest.
Pronghorn antelope 85 9 small deer 85 9 medium size deer 10 11 large deer 11 12 north american wild sheep 12 13 mountain goat 13 145. When you remove the non lethal upper section of the thoracic cavity and the brisket muscle below youre left with an average height of 12 14 of vitals. When i was figuring how to judge distance based on how my pins measured up to an elk torso at certain distances i think we figured it to be around 33. Keep in mind that on 66s you dont add the extension of the main beam past the bulls g5 as a sixth point. Southwestern bulls tend to be bigger bodied a lot of the time because their growing season is longer. 426x6 4th point is the sword peint count everything past that rapid counting b site c 0m.
But you can pretty much count on a truly mature bull 5 years old being somewhere around 30 from back to brisket. The average height of the chest cavity on a bull elk is around 24 excluding the hide. B site c 0m. The scapula of an elk can have a thickness ranging from ¼ inch to 2 ½ inches. To accomplish the above calculation i must first determine measuring vertically the size of an elks body from a top of back to b bottom of brisket then divide by 2 to determine half or center mass. Antlers to nose b 15 16 site c 0m 22 24 body girth.
Add to that the thickness of the skinhide heavy muscles and tendons. This is obviously much larger than the average whitetail or mule deer and should be taken into consideration when hunting. Id say between 30 and 36. Body the average mature bull elk will be about 5 feet tall at the shoulder 8 feet long and weigh about 700 pounds. Some of it depends on how much hair the elk has or how fat it is and some of it is regional. Elk 24 26 moose 30 36 given those external body measurements here are some estimated vital area circle diameters that roughly correspond to the approximate heartlung target area.
A comprehensive reference database of dimensioned drawings documenting the standard measurements and sizes of the everyday objects and spaces that make up our world. I would say that an elks body is approximately 22 26 inches so average at 24 divided by 2 12. This measurement has already been accounted for in the main beam measurement. A 350 bull must have an average of 16 inches for his g1 through g4 points and 10 inch g5s to be about 350.
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