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The world record Elk hung in a hardware store in Crested Butte Colorado for many years. It now hangs at the visitor center there. It was killed by 30-40 Krag.
It may now be eclipsed as the world record, not sure. But it sure is a big-un.
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You beat me to that answer - Rudy Rozman kept it in his dining room at his motel where I frequently stayed while skiing back in the 1980s. He also had the Winchester 95 rifle in 30-40 Krag that was used to shoot that record breaker and it hung just below the mounted head. Rudy said the mount was actually a "composite" - the antlers were the record breakers but, due to some unfortunate accident of fate, the original head wasn't saved and they mounted the rack on another head.
That didn't detract the specimen for me, however. It was a big head and a magnificent rack of antlers. Boone & Crockett no longer lists it but, it held the record for something like half a century.
