When John Shirk harvested this bull on the first day of 2006 season, it was the talk of the local outdoor community. Elk experts immediately recognized that the bull would certainly crack the record books. Few expected its nontypical antlers to score a gaudy 242 7/8 on the Boone and Crockett scale. That's what official scorers came up with last week after hours of measuring and calculating. The antler score is the seventh highest ever in the world. 'Just about everybody believes that it was the biggest bull in the (Pennsylvania) herd," Shirk's guide Jeff Colwell of Hick's Run Outfitters said. "It's very unlikely that there's another bull out there like this one." The bull's antlers had an astounding 21 scoreable points. While the scoring was official, the bull has not yet been entered in the record books.

Photo coutesy of Hick's Run Outfitters