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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2008, 09:29:27 AM »
And we will get to read about how hard a hunt it was, how they hiked miles, glassed for hours, called, the whole works.........  :bs:
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2008, 09:32:24 AM »
Hunting/trapping/fishing is a way of life, not a sport.  Never liked that term associated with hunting and never will...

 :yeah: :yeah: :yeah:

I've had similar feelings for a while now and I couldn't have explained it better myself. :tup:

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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2008, 09:42:06 AM »
In this context, there's no hunting skill involved in deep pockets, airplanes, and long range shots...may as well be a gopher in my mind.  It reduces the meaning of "hunting" when killing is made into a spectacle sport.  Hunting/trapping/fishing is a way of life, not a sport.  Never liked that term associated with hunting and never will...

I agree 110% and yet there are those on this site that will get upset and argue that this is indeed "hunting" just like the guy on ebay raising deer for release so some guy can pay loads to sit and wait for his buck to walk by thinking its finally out of a cage, they post websters definition of "hunting" and compare it to looking for the car keys, all the while defending actions like this. Well said Bow4elk!!!
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2008, 10:29:13 AM »
No news yet... :dunno:
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2008, 11:09:04 AM »
I wish it had been a local guy to get the bull.  That being said, we don't know the circumstances on the kill.  No need for us to get jealous and worked up over something that we don't know to be true yet.  If a guy flies in and hires a guide and they happen to get a bull on the first day of hunting, it's hard for me to fault that.  The fact that he flew in on a private plane doesn't influence my opinion.  I don't hold it against guys like Bill Gates that have the money to afford to fly in a private plane.  Just like I don't get mad at a guy that drives by me in an exotic supercar.

Now, will I respect the hunt like someone else that worked really hard and didn't hire a guide?  Probably not.  However, to each his own.

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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2008, 11:11:54 AM »
any one know what happened to the masher???

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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2008, 12:36:34 PM »
Well..maybe I should not have posted this topic..thought someone more in the know than I may have some info since there are so many elkaholics here.  I don't know who he is or care if he flies his own plane or how much money he has.... good for him.  I don't like the fact, however, that he and others have people constantly track an animal for a month, show up and have someone point them in the right direction.."guide"? ya..my a--.  I also know that is how it is in some people's world..not mine however.
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2008, 12:41:39 PM »
Hopefully it was Terrible Ted Nugent! :chuckle:
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2008, 02:05:51 PM »
Hopefully it was Terrible Ted Nugent! :chuckle:

Couldn't have been, the plane would not have been spotted because it would have been camo :chuckle:
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #24 on: September 04, 2008, 03:04:24 PM »
I think that 450 bull bread this bucks mom a few years back by accident.  :chuckle:

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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #25 on: September 04, 2008, 03:12:10 PM »
Californians fly private jets into Walla Walla all the time it's the new cool wine country destination for rich people. I haven't heard anything about this bull being shot but I'll make some calls.
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #26 on: September 04, 2008, 04:39:24 PM »
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #27 on: September 04, 2008, 05:09:46 PM »
That bucks name is Samson.  My buddies cousin guided the Az Gov. tag holder to him a few yaers ago.  The year before same guy had the tag and shot a 251 then Samson the next.  You can see more of this buck on Muley Crazy VI.  Im going down next month for my coues tag.  I am going to stop by Hatch's shop when we are down there,  I will try to get some pics of the critters he has in his shop. 

Oh and Samson scored 295''.  The 321 shot a week ago there looks a lot like him.
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #28 on: September 04, 2008, 07:12:42 PM »
Yeah just heard the same thing from a reliable source.  All the locals are pissed....Rumor has it it was shot on USFS property in an noncommercial use area with guides that were hired.  Noncommercial means no guides allowed.  rumor has it USFS is investigating. 
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Re: Elk Rumors
« Reply #29 on: September 04, 2008, 07:34:43 PM »
The term "guide" may need a new definition.
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