I am looking for the proper measuring technique for the measurement of cape eland. Last year I took a nice eland in KZN but never had the chance nor inclination to measure the horn on the beast. My trophies arrived today and as I was looking at it, I said to myself, self that is a nice eland...I wonder what he measures? I have used method 8 which is for spiral horn animals which is as I read it, around the spiral of the longest horn plus circumference plus distance between tips. Can someone set me straight as this measurement seems very high for my eland.

Length of right horn 29.25"
Circumference 9.75"
Distance between tips 12.25"

This is the picture of the eland within the report.
http://forums.accuratereloadin...891041571#1891041571

The right horn is considerably longer than the left. Any help would be appreciated.
John

Why not find an official measurer, RW or SCI in your area? They do not charge for measuring your animals. Probably easier to locate an SCI measurer.

Roland ward ranks only the longest horn done with the spiral method . The minimum is 35 " . You do do not circumference to your measurements on RW .

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Originally posted by Safari Afrika 1:
Roland ward ranks only the longest horn done with the spiral method . The minimum is 35 " . You do do not circumference to your measurements on RW .

Richard, I beg to differ slightly. You do actually measure and record the circumference at base of the longest horn, as measured along the spiral ridge, and the tip to tip for inclusion into the actual Roland Ward "Book". Ranking is, as you correctly stated, however only based on the longest horn!

To be precise, I think you'll find that RW do indeed record all 3 measurements mentioned and indeed only rank on the length of the longest horn but that when two or more animals have identical horn lengths, they then use base measurements and then tip to tip measurement to determine which of them ranks above the other in the book.

Or at least, that's what Uncle Stevie (God bless him!) told me many years ago.

How's that for a useless piece of information!

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Originally posted by shakari:
To be precise, I think you'll find that RW do indeed record all 3 measurements mentioned and indeed only rank on the length of the longest horn but that when two or more animals have identical horn lengths, they then use base measurements and then tip to tip measurement to determine which of them ranks above the other in the book.

Or at least, that's what Uncle Stevie (God bless him!) told me many years ago.

Good information and it still holds true!

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Originally posted by Andrew McLaren:

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Originally posted by Safari Afrika 1:
Roland ward ranks only the longest horn done with the spiral method . The minimum is 35 " . You do do not circumference to your measurements on RW .

Richard, I beg to differ slightly. You do actually measure and record the circumference at base of the longest horn, as measured along the spiral ridge, and the tip to tip for inclusion into the actual Roland Ward "Book". Ranking is, as you correctly stated, however only based on the longest horn!

Andrew thanks for clarifying this to everybody else . I know this ...... The main issue at hand is that a 29 " Eland do not qualify so all the other info is irrelivant. I pointed out the circumfrance is not added ... I hope this makes sense ...

Happy Hunting !

Thanks all for your info. It appears that this bull is well short of RW, but just squeaks in on SCI minimum of 77". Not that it matters, but it is still cool.