A new world record !!

[HIGHLANDER]

This Elk was killed with a bow in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. He

green scored 575" and should net out at about 530" non typical. He Has and

unbelievable outside spread of 79". This is the biggest bull Ever taken with any weapon.

 

[twowheelnut]

Uh, what's that guy in the full camo doing with his hands? :blink: Man, but that's a big mofo beast!

 

[GalaxyBlue]

Thats just swell... Another trophy.

 

[650cent]

I bet that guy about craped his pant when he first saw that rack. Thats like winning the lottery in the hunting world.

 

[user 213]

I bet that was a lot of trips to the truck! And no shortage of elk steaks in the freezer this winter.

 

[ViperDriver]

I bet we're all grateful that they took him out with a bow so that one of us doesn't have to take him out with a feejer.

 

[Toecutter]

I bet we're all grateful that they took him out with a bow so that one of us doesn't have to take him out with a feejer.

A Feejer might just bounce off that thing.

 

[shokdimn]

DANG! :bow_arrow:

Elk. :rip_1:

Just showed the pic to my son. He said, “ he got the “Bull O the Woods” didn’t he”?

I bet that was a lot of trips to the truck! And no shortage of elk steaks in the freezer this winter.

Getting that one out would be Real Work :help: , even with good pack horses.

 

[juniorfjr]

local radio guy was talking about this. Turned out to be a red stag raised on a private ranch, diet supplemented with calsium tablets. It was an arranged hunt, the hunter is a count or something. There is an article on the sports secion on www.kpq.com. Too bad though, still a magnificent animal. jr

 

[Rickster]

Mmmmmm..... looks tasty.

call PETA!

(PETA -- People Eating Tasty Animals)

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Here bully bully, come get your calcium tablets.....twang. That's hunting? ****

 

[Thug]

Why would you want to kill something as magnificent as that? I don't get it?

And before you whinge about hunting et al, I hunt to so get ****** its just a question....

Cheers

 

[zorkler]

you tell em thug , you ugly ******* ...................

 

[Thug]

Thank you, kind of you to say so

 

[Bounce]

Why would you want to kill something as magnificent as that? I don't get it?

because - other than subsistance hunting - that's what it's all about.

 

[user 213]

I've got nothing against hunting, though I don't really get the trophy hunting thing myself. Another way of looking at this hunt is economics. This kind of hunt generates huge income in most cases. An example follows.

When I worked for Kimber of Oregon, (high end rifle company), I had a customer come to pick up his custom $20k rifle one day. Personally ordered, engraved everywhere, gold, silver and ivory inlay work. .375 H&H caliber.

So I take him down to the test range to witness me shooting a test group to verify accuracy on his new rifle and we're talking about what he's going to do with it. Turns out he buys a new rifle for every trophy hunt he does, and this one is for a MT guided 'gauranteed' trophy elk hunt. I zing three into one ragged hole for him and am cleaning the rifle before letting him have it and I ask him how the 'gaurantee' part works.

"Well, I pay $20k for the hunt, they gaurantee me the animal. It's on a private ranch in MT. I fly my Lear out to Butte, they pick me up in a limo and take me to the ranch. The next day we jeep out part way, then go horse back to where the wranglers have been watching and tracking the animal. This elk is specifically raised for this and tracked for location and health it's entire life, right up to the day of the hunt. We camp nearby for a night, I fire a couple of rounds through the rifle to double check the scope sight in, then the next morning the guides take me out to where the animal is and I take the shot.

After that I go back to camp, spend a little time BSing, then head back to the ranch, grab the limo to the airport and fly home. The animal will be processed for the meat and the rest goes to the taxidermy guy who does the full body mount and it eventually gets delivered to my place where it goes in the *building* where I keep all my trophies."

Building? I ask. "Oh yeah, I have them all full body mounted and the animal goes in a special display area with the rifle I used in a hand built case made for me by this guy in Belgium with lighting and everything. That way I can walk through with my guests and each hunt has it's own area of display." Apparently it's a big building.

All in all, this guy told me he blew $50k on this hunt. Hard for me to imagine where it all goes, but with the rifle alone killing $20k and the hunt another $20k, I guess the rest goes fast. That's money into the economy all over the world just so he can fire one shot at a elk. At least he did tell me the meat all goes to his ranch too.

 

[GalaxyBlue]

I've got nothing against hunting, though I don't really get the trophy hunting thing myself. Another way of looking at this hunt is economics. This kind of hunt generates huge income in most cases. An example follows.
When I worked for Kimber of Oregon, (high end rifle company), I had a customer come to pick up his custom $20k rifle one day. Personally ordered, engraved everywhere, gold, silver and ivory inlay work. .375 H&H caliber.

So I take him down to the test range to witness me shooting a test group to verify accuracy on his new rifle and we're talking about what he's going to do with it. Turns out he buys a new rifle for every trophy hunt he does, and this one is for a MT guided 'gauranteed' trophy elk hunt. I zing three into one ragged hole for him and am cleaning the rifle before letting him have it and I ask him how the 'gaurantee' part works.

"Well, I pay $20k for the hunt, they gaurantee me the animal. It's on a private ranch in MT. I fly my Lear out to Butte, they pick me up in a limo and take me to the ranch. The next day we jeep out part way, then go horse back to where the wranglers have been watching and tracking the animal. This elk is specifically raised for this and tracked for location and health it's entire life, right up to the day of the hunt. We camp nearby for a night, I fire a couple of rounds through the rifle to double check the scope sight in, then the next morning the guides take me out to where the animal is and I take the shot.

After that I go back to camp, spend a little time BSing, then head back to the ranch, grab the limo to the airport and fly home. The animal will be processed for the meat and the rest goes to the taxidermy guy who does the full body mount and it eventually gets delivered to my place where it goes in the *building* where I keep all my trophies."

Building? I ask. "Oh yeah, I have them all full body mounted and the animal goes in a special display area with the rifle I used in a hand built case made for me by this guy in Belgium with lighting and everything. That way I can walk through with my guests and each hunt has it's own area of display." Apparently it's a big building.

All in all, this guy told me he blew $50k on this hunt. Hard for me to imagine where it all goes, but with the rifle alone killing $20k and the hunt another $20k, I guess the rest goes fast. That's money into the economy all over the world just so he can fire one shot at a elk. At least he did tell me the meat all goes to his ranch too.

Thats interesting... What a moron. Why cant he go "hunting" for real... As in tracking the animal HIMSELF and doing all the prep.

This seems to be the same mentality as people who fish in a barrel (overstocked pond).

What kind of satisfaction does one get from this??? :blink:

 

[dcarver]

From www.kpq.com Bold font by me.

"Yesterday, however, it emerged that Baron Gemmingen-Hornberg's trophy was no roaring wild stag of the Bulgarian beech forests but rather a tame, chocolate-loving red deer raised in an Austrian game reserve. The animal had been deliberately fed calcium tablets to enhance the growth of its antlers.

'The stag's name was Burlei, he was completely tame and children liked to feed him chocolate,' the animal's former owner, Rudolf Pöttinger, told Spiegel television.

The series of events that led the Baron to be duped started in the summer of last year. Mr Pöttinger, the owner of a 53-acre game reserve in southern Austria, received an offer of €20,000 (£13,500) for Burlei and promptly sold the animal to two game dealers.

Within a month the stag was roaming hunting estate forests run by a Bulgarian organisation called Elen Hunting, which has its headquarters near the town of Etropole. Anxious to find a wealthy marksman with a yen for huge stags, the company began to spread news of Burlei's whereabouts.

The Baron heard of the stag from a Serbian wildlife documentary film-maker and, after paying a total of €65,000 for the privilege, he flew to Sofia in late August last year with his gun and a team of cameramen.

Accompanied by a game keeper and two film-makers, the Baron caught up with Burlei as the animal was grazing in a clearing. Undaunted by the fact that the supposedly wild stag failed to run away as the team approached, he raised his rifle and shot it dead."

Simply disgusting. I'd like to strap some antlers on the two game dealers and the hunters, feed them a bit of chocolate so they have some energy to run with, bring them up to my ranch then start firing on them. I bet at least they'd run. 'Hell, you can run, but then you'll just be tired when I shoot you". This whole story just reeks of how poorly humans can behave. And we're the smart ones? I better quit now before I get really pissed off.

 

[mdisher]

That's fooked... It's one thing to 'hunt' something that large, something else entirely to go shoot someone's pet.

I'd like to load his ass up with Chocolate, Calcium and chase his ass around 15 acres with a high end paint gun and cover him with welts.