See the Biggest Antlers Ever Found on a Bull Elk That Once Roamed Utah

There are massive beasts wandering Utah mountains and one of them holds the title for the biggest antlers. An elk named Spider Bull had antlers the size of a European car on his head and holds the record for the biggest ever. 

The Bull Elk with the Non-Typical World Record Was from Utah 

In 2008 a man named Denny Austad brought down a bull elk in the Monroe Mountains that had a score of 478 and 5/8 that blew away the old record. The elk is known as The Spider Bull and those antlers were massive. 

The record formally belonged to a bull elk that was found frozen in British Columbia in the 90s. The Spider Bull beat this old record by more than 13 inches. Even though the record has been certified for going on 17 years, controversy follows it. 

Rumors Continue to Follow the Utah Record Setting Elk 

At the time Spider Bull was measured, many thought it was unbelievable that it could grow that big of antlers in the wild. They suspected it had been released from a farm. The claim was investigated. 

They said that no farm elk was reported missing and it didn’t have any of the marks identifying it as farm raised and so the Spider Bull was certified as the new record. 

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Add it to the list of trivia Utah can brag about. There was an elk that once walked around the state with antlers the size of a VW on his head.