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There's a guy I know.
In his own right, he's a heck of an outdoorsman. A skilled hunter and very knowledgeable fellow.
Right around Christmas, he showed me a rack from a buck that he had arrowed some weeks prior, but didn't recover immediately.
He said he got a bad hit on the deer and despite looking for it several times, he simply couldn't find it.
Then he says he was hunting the same area later in the firearms season and stumbled upon the trophy, laid up in some thick stuff, where it had apparently laid down and expired.
I complemented him on the impressive trophy and he said it would likely make the book.
The deer, for this area, was a monster!
Fast-forward to today.
Another guy who knows this hunter, and who knows me, walks into my office and hands me a printout of an ebay auction for a set of antlers.
He asked me if they looked familiar.
At first, it didn't register, but then I looked at the them more closely and I noticed they were sold from Illinois.
Our mutual acquaintance paid $520 for the rack on ebay! and he's going around telling everyone this amazing story of how he harvested what could easily turn out to be one of the top whitetails ever taken in this state.
The guy who had the printout told me that he's been watching him do this kind of crap for years. He said he's never said anything, because he believes it's a sickness, kind of like gambling addictions or alcoholism.
We looked through his history on ebay and he's buying other trophy wildlife items and spending a bunch of money on them.
If this deer gets scored and makes P&Y, I'm going to have to speak out.
I'm not really mad at the guy so much as I just feel sorry for him.
In his own right, he's a heck of an outdoorsman. A skilled hunter and very knowledgeable fellow.
Right around Christmas, he showed me a rack from a buck that he had arrowed some weeks prior, but didn't recover immediately.
He said he got a bad hit on the deer and despite looking for it several times, he simply couldn't find it.
Then he says he was hunting the same area later in the firearms season and stumbled upon the trophy, laid up in some thick stuff, where it had apparently laid down and expired.
I complemented him on the impressive trophy and he said it would likely make the book.
The deer, for this area, was a monster!
Fast-forward to today.
Another guy who knows this hunter, and who knows me, walks into my office and hands me a printout of an ebay auction for a set of antlers.
He asked me if they looked familiar.
At first, it didn't register, but then I looked at the them more closely and I noticed they were sold from Illinois.
Our mutual acquaintance paid $520 for the rack on ebay! and he's going around telling everyone this amazing story of how he harvested what could easily turn out to be one of the top whitetails ever taken in this state.
The guy who had the printout told me that he's been watching him do this kind of crap for years. He said he's never said anything, because he believes it's a sickness, kind of like gambling addictions or alcoholism.
We looked through his history on ebay and he's buying other trophy wildlife items and spending a bunch of money on them.
If this deer gets scored and makes P&Y, I'm going to have to speak out.
I'm not really mad at the guy so much as I just feel sorry for him.
