Elk Ivories

sheepguide · #1 10-13-2010, 10:31 AM

Just was looking though my collection while I added this years and was just wondering how many guys collect theirs and what you do with them. I have just kept mine in a small bag but am going to put them all on a leather lace I think.
SG

Ryry4 · #2 10-13-2010, 11:31 AM

I've got a couple sets and when I can put the money together I'm getting a ring made with one of them in it.

Wapiti88 · #3 10-13-2010, 12:31 PM

Had my taxi save them for me when he done up my European mount of my 6x6. I cleaned them and drilled a hole in each at the root end and tied them to a piece of leather lashing. They now reside tied to my oilskin outback hat's hatband.

shooter · #4 10-13-2010, 02:23 PM

I really wanted a ring made out of one of them but ended up getting a jewler to make two pendents for me. I'll see try and take a picture tonight and post if I have a chance.

Dark Wing · #5 10-13-2010, 03:32 PM

I have an elk ivory ring and had one on a chain. I've also seen guys inbed them on the stocks of their rifles.

echo · #6 10-13-2010, 04:30 PM

had a mount done with open mouth,had them put back in.

wctbowtech · #7 10-13-2010, 04:49 PM

The past couple of years my hunting partner and I exchanged one from each of our elk. Normally I keep both sets, but they just sit in a box so this seems to work better. My dad gave me a collection a few years back so I think I have approximately 70 or so sets now.

whitetail Junkie · #8 10-13-2010, 05:31 PM

My Uncle in the Crowsnest Pass has over 40 Set's of Elk Tusk's.All Kept in a Tin Coffee Can.

all His Elk where Shot With A 300 WBY Mag

Pathfinder76 · #9 10-13-2010, 06:14 PM

Mine are scattered here and there and to be honest I think they're a bit tacky on leather laces and in Jewelry.

Mxyzptik · #10 10-13-2010, 06:24 PM

I was always going to get a pinky ring made from one of mine but there always seems like something more important on the list of things to buy.

If you take a browse around the world wide web there sure are some damn nice examples out there.

oldgutpile · #11 10-13-2010, 06:55 PM

When I shot my first bull, I toyed with the idea of getting it mounted. Didnt really have the cash or the wall space at the time, so rationalized a plaque mount that my grandfather and father helped with, and had one of the whistler teeth made into a ring by a local jeweller. That ring has been on my hand for over twenty years and half a dozen bulls later. I still think of the fantastic hunt I experienced, and how proud I was to come home with that elk. Every time I look at that ring, its just like re-runs of an awesome memory I will always cherish.
Two years ago, I was witness to a driver rolling his suv on an icy road. He was trapped in the vehichle upside-down and I tried digging out the door in the crusted snow to free him. Somewhere in the excitement, I had my ring of twenty years, slip off my frozen hand.
I waited until the snow disappeared and searched the ditch. Even rented a metal detector and worked the accident site over. I finally relented and gave the ring up for lost.
On the plus side, I took a different ivory from a bull that my late father and I took on the only mountain hunt we shared together, and ordered a new ring.
A week before the new ring was shipped, a freind surpised me with my original ring that he had gone searching for and found along the edge of the road.
I now have two rings that both trigger some incredible memories.
Some may think they're "tacky", but its all in the eye of the beholder.

Springer · #12 10-13-2010, 07:03 PM

Man I never thought about the Ivories on my first Bull and the rest of the skull stayed in the bush. I only have one set and have not decided what to do withem yet.
An old friend of mine had a Bighorn Sheep's nutsack tanned and has a leather tie-strap on the top to close it , he carries his litle voo-doo bag of ivories in his pack for good luck !!

kodiakken · #13 10-13-2010, 07:07 PM

Had a set of earrings made for the Mrs's that BBQ'S me my steak.
Ring for myself.

Ken.

guywiththemule · #14 10-13-2010, 07:37 PM

Keep them in my medicine bundle except for a few that were stolen from me.

ward · #15 10-13-2010, 07:41 PM

Hey Springer, you have strange friends !

ishootbambi · #16 10-14-2010, 01:24 AM

i had a real nice pair of earrings made for the wife....who is now an exwife. i wish they were the most expensive thing she took when she moved out.

pottymouth · #17 10-14-2010, 01:39 AM

Kept my last pair, taxi is gonna put them in mount for me .

landowner · #18 10-14-2010, 08:31 AM

Tie clips, keychains, custom knife handles.

ditch donkey · #19 10-14-2010, 08:33 AM

Which set of teeth, is the ivory? Do they stand out from the rest? Might be a silly question, but this is my first year hunting elk, and nobody I know hunts them either.

sheepguide · #20 10-14-2010, 08:38 AM

They are the 2 alone on the top side. Usually are round and smooth.

FishBrain · #21 10-14-2010, 09:52 AM

I am hoping to get my first set this year. I have yet to shoot an elk.
Crossing my fingers, I will put them on a leather strap and either carry them hunting or they will hang on the euro mount I will get done.

How big does the elk have to be to get its ivory?

Dark Wing · #22 10-14-2010, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ditch donkey

Which set of teeth, is the ivory? Do they stand out from the rest? Might be a silly question, but this is my first year hunting elk, and nobody I know hunts them either.

I usually find 1/2 a dozen sets or more with winter kills every year.