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Trophy measuring underway at Big Horn Show

Stan Wills, left, and Steve Brown, both with the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council, move  a mounted elk to the “Trophy Territory” display area at the Big Horn Outdoor Adventure show Friday  at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. The Rocky Mountain Elk has 306 inches of horn and was shot with a muzzleloader gun near Newman Lake  in 2006.  (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)
Stan Wills, left, and Steve Brown, both with the Inland Northwest Wildlife Council, move a mounted elk to the “Trophy Territory” display area at the Big Horn Outdoor Adventure show Friday at the Spokane County Fair & Expo Center. The Rocky Mountain Elk has 306 inches of horn and was shot with a muzzleloader gun near Newman Lake in 2006. (Colin Mulvany / The Spokesman-Review)

HUNTING -- The Big Horn Outdoor Recreation Show doesn't open until tomorrow, but hunters already have been bringing their trophy antlers, horns and heads for measuring by official Boone and Crockett and Pope and Young scorers.

In addition to getting an official score, Big Horn Show trophies are judged and awarded in numerous categories. Several species and racks, in all shapes, sizes, and counts are considered. More than 300 mounts were on display at last year’s show.

A rumor is circulating that a world- record mount could debut at the show this year.

To enter a trophy for scoring, drive to the south entrance of the Fair and Expo Center and continue through the Yellow Gate to Bay 3 at the following times:

Today-Friday, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., and Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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